Art and Noodles
Rug Hooking with Janice Lee
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3y ago
What a great time we had this weekend in our ART AND NOODLES class with  Diana Geisinger of Ankeny Iowa.  Diana is a former art teacher and McGown certified rug hooking teacher.  She led us thru a terrific weekend of hooking small projects from our noodle bags mixed with honest to goodness art lessons.  We learned about color and value.  We studied shading and design.  We sketched and drew like we knew what we were doing.  Amazingly, Diana made us all feel like real artists and everyone walked away with a lot of confidence in their newly found art skills ..read more
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Bucket List
Rug Hooking with Janice Lee
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3y ago
I have never had a 'bucket list' and have never felt the need for one.  I have always felt that I have had all the life experiences needed by one person, and perhaps a few that I could have lived without.   All in all, my life has been full of wonderful people, interesting experiences and particularly fantastic animals. Tonight, I added an experience that should have been on my 'bucket list'.    This is Timber, he is a 4 1/2 month old wolf hybrid.  From his DNA testing they believe he is 3/4 wolf.  Timber was given up at the Nebraska Humane Society by his owner ..read more
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FINISH YOUR PROJECTS WEEKEND
Rug Hooking with Janice Lee
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3y ago
What better way to spend a spring weekend than to have a FINISH YOUR PROJECTS weekend here at The Rug Hooking Store.  This weekend, April 21,22,23 bring any project you want to complete.  We will start at 9am  each  day and hook until 10pm on Fri and Sat and 4pm on Sunday.   You can come for the whole time, a day, an evening, an afternoon, just drop in and out as you can.  We will potluck lunches and order pizza or burgers out for dinner.  This will be a very laid back, easy going time.  If you need help with a rug, I am always available for problems or ..read more
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Chalkware Deer
Rug Hooking with Janice Lee
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3y ago
While looking thru some rug photos to find something fun to write about, I ran across this chalkware deer I did in the Pris Buttler class at last year's retreat.  I had finished my footstool design for this class and Pris said "Pick something else to do and we will color plan it."  I have always liked this pattern from Woolley Fox, it is an old Edythe O'Neill design.  I was thinking maybe some primitive browns and predictable colors when Pris said....let's do this up a little different. So, she went to the lights on the shelf and picked four or five different pieces, a greenis ..read more
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The Morning Drive
Rug Hooking with Janice Lee
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3y ago
Not to disrespect the daffodil, but now we are TALKING!  I finished this rug, THE MORNING DRIVE when Diane Stoffel was here teaching class a couple of weeks ago.  The photo on top shows my rug, the one below is the original picture, taken by Heather DePra, of my son Will and his dog Pard, moving cattle a few years ago. You can see Pard pretty well in the rug, he is just to the right off the rider.  You have to look really close in the original photo, Pard is so deep in the grass he is barely visible. I really should tell you Pardner's story, it is a good one for sure.   ..read more
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Spring is here
Rug Hooking with Janice Lee
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3y ago
I got a new computer and everything is working much better for me in the techno world, so I am back to blogging.  I promise to be a better blogger in the future.   Pictured is a rug I just finished a few minutes ago.  You may have noticed this is not my normal 'style'.  Well, let me explain how this came about.  Diane Stoffel was here teaching a class a few weeks ago.  We had a terrific three days, class was over and Diane was ready to fly home to get ready for her next class.  But....Mother Nature intervened and Diane got snowed out of home.  Lucky ME ..read more
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Blue Is A Busy Dog
Rug Hooking with Janice Lee
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3y ago
Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet?  Here is a suggestion for you!  My own Blue dog has been a busy guy.  He is the poster child for our fundraising campaign  "COATS FOR KIDS" which is raising money for coats and warm clothes  for the children of our area. I wrote this children's book about Blue and all his activities.  As you may know, Blue is a store dog and a theatre dog and a therapy dog and a reading dog…..etc, etc.  I hired a wonderful artist, Jana Sesow of Lincoln to do the illustrations and they are beautiful.  Shown here, right, is ..read more
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RETREAT COMPLETION
Rug Hooking with Janice Lee
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3y ago
 Our 2016 Rug Hooking RETREATS are done, and a wonderful time was had by all who attended.  Two weeks ago, we had Diane Stoffel and Pris Buttler here for class.  Diane's students made some beautiful rugs and in Pris' class we did these fabulous footstools.  The one on the left is Pris' footstool, the one on the right is my finished project. Both Diane and Pris will be back next Oct 28,29,30 2016 and sign ups are in progress NOW.  Diane's class is open and Pris will offer an open class AND the footstool option again. My little baby rug, shown on top, was completed in ..read more
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More Heirloom Rugs
Rug Hooking with Janice Lee
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3y ago
 As promised, here are a couple of rugs from our Heirloom Rug Workshop.  Of course, they are only partially completed, but the ladies all got a lot done is only 3 days. On top is Erin Schulz' tulip rug, a design from The Sampling.  Erin tore and cut strips and her rug looks marvelously old. Jeanette O'Brien hooked this Maggie Bonanomi design.  She also tore and cut strips.  Her flowers and flags are terrific and the bronze urn may be my favorite part of all. These experienced rug hookers really embraced the idea of making rugs that look 100 years old, a task that i ..read more
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Heirloom Workshop
Rug Hooking with Janice Lee
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3y ago
We just finished a terrific 3 days of rug hooking with a great group of ladies.  This was my Heirloom Rug Workshop and these brave souls came together to make their truly 'ugly bug rugs'. We have all been hooking some really beautiful projects.  Detailed faces and landscapes, 3 cuts for detailed minutia  have become common place for this group of former 'primitive' rug hookers. The point of this class is to hook like a prairie hooker.  I wrote a book outlining 15 different techniques you can use to make your rug look 100 years old.  This year we took it a step farth ..read more
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