| Newtown Hooked Rug Show
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 Lake Compounce, 1846. Designed and hooked by Nancy Norton |
 Newtown Hooked Rug ShowSponsored by the Heritage Preservation Trust, Inc. in support of the Newtown Meeting House with financial assistance from:
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Show Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008
Speaker: June Myles June is a talented rug hooker and author who will present “A Personal Odyssey in Rug Hooking: The Percolation and Expression of Ideas.” A trained physicist, she also spent a year in Europe and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Today, she still has one foot in the sciences and the other in the arts. June has been a rug hooker for 20 years and just completed her first book, If Wool Could Talk—Hooked Rugs, A Memoir, which she will sell and sign at our show. Read about June Myles...
Workshop: Trish Becker Join the fun and have a PURR-fectly fine time with TRISH BECKER and be introduced to the world of WIDE-CUT ANIMALS. You will work on FOLK ART CAT©2008, designed especially for this class. Work in #9 cut and hook an animal with personality and eyes that truly engage the viewer. Workshop is limited to 15 experienced students, advance registration required, cost is $55 per person, including pattern. Bring your own #9 cut wool or purchase from the instructor on show day. Read about Trish Becker...
The 2008 Newtown Hooked Rug Show will be presented in the cafetorium of the Reed Intermediate School--where everything will be in one convenient location. Rug displays, vendors, speaker, workshop and lunch will be under one roof, with plenty of on-site free parking for vendors and shoppers.
As always, we invite you to display your work and, again this year, we have two categories available: Juried and Non-Juried.
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