It's time to Hook!

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Season 2016 - 2017

First Hook-In
Monday, September 12th, 2016
Centennial Hall
10 AM - 3 PM

Hook-In
Back to Hook. Illustration: Maria Romero

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40th Anniversary e-Guestbook

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2015-01-20 13:37:04
Name:
Ti
City/Country:
Beaconsfield
Comments:
By "hook" or by crook I'll be the first in the Guestbook! Congratulations BHCG :))
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2015-01-20 19:32:11
Name
Lois
City/Country
Rawdon
Comments
Brings back a lot of memories--Some of us have changed a lot. Interesting.
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2015-01-21 20:17:48
Name
Hooker's Wood & Wool Studio
City/Country
Chippewa Falls, WI USA
Comments
So nice to know so much about this group of well seasoned hookers!
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2015-01-25 12:47:01
Name
Carolyn
City/Country
Chateauguay QC
Comments
This is a great website, and 40th anniversay page, to celebrate this vibrant guild and craft.

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2015-02-08 14:00:59
Name
Sylvia Solomon
City/Country
Pointe-Claire, Que. Canada
Comments
Love the logo Maria!
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2015-02-17 18:18:11
Name
Susan Kendall
City/Country
Ottawa, On.
Comments
Love the new logo! The comaradery and history are well to…
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Rug Hooking Designs

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Shelly Atkinson  is a self-taught visual artist and crafter from Nova-Scotia, Canada. She loves experimenting with styles, colours, textures and techniques in her paintings and illustrations. Shelly offers rug hooking patterns of animals, flowers, people, the four seasons, etc. She can create custom drawings of your pet or family and even revise her patterns, if requested. Her work can be found on greeting cards, journals, prints, rug hooking patterns, coasters. needlepoint patterns, calendars, posters, and a child's book.

Go to  http://users.eastlink.ca/~shellyatkinson/rughooking/rughooking.html
http://shellyatkinson.blogspot.ca/



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Show&Tell / February 2019

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Show & Tell _ On this Gallery, you can tour a selection of rugs from our last Exhibition, held in September 2017 at Centennial Hall. Visit our Blog to see the rugs showcased in the past.

Special Show & Tell: Relooking! To celebrate the launch of our new Website, we offer you the story of 5 new rugs. Enjoy!


Andrée Lapensée
My City in Winter
14 x 28”

I used various types of wool, such as woolen fabrics cut in No 6, yarns of different colours and textures, as well as velvet.




Barbara Silver
A Summer Storm – 2017
35” x 23”
#’s 4, 5 and 6 cuts

I began hooking in January 2016. After finishing my first rug (18” x 11”) I took a course with Lois Morris at the Guild’s Monday hook-ins to learn how to dye my own wool. Of course, I decided the next thing I should do is hook a piece using wool that I had dyed. The challenge apart from the dyeing was to hook a building and a stormy sky. This would be a practice piece and not necessarily a finished rug. Once I had the barn and trees done, I started …
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