14thAnnual Harvest Hook-in California’s First Chapter of ATHA presents: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19TH, 2019    8:30AM – 2:30 PM We are excited to announce Michele Wisewill be our teacher this year! She’ll be teaching an open class, so bring along any project you’d like some of her expert advice on. More information about Michelle can be found on the next page. Our Harvest Hook-in begins with a light breakfast and coffee or tea. Fall Harvest Lunch Menu: Assorted salads and breads from Panera Bread. And, of course, delicious desserts! Our exclusive Christmas Boutique: “Countdown to Christmas is On” wit ..read more

Raffle Baskets At our June meeting we’ll talk a bit about baskets, so put on your thinking caps and help us liven up this list. Harvest Wagon Chocolate Scraps Worms (clean & sorted by color) Christmas Wine Baby Boy Baby Girl Chicken/Kitchen Southwest/Cowboy/ Pendleton Coffee & Tea Dyer’s Sheep Beachy/Sea Patriotic Garden Bee   Red (or any single color of your choice) Spa/Mermaid Lavender Pumpkin/Halloween Teddy Bear Picnic California Poppies Basket full of Sunshine Hysterical Historical Library Angel/Ethereal Cats R Us Black & White Artist Fishing Bunny Ladybug Beginners Thing ..read more

Leaves Leaves are the challenge theme for our October hook-in. Here is Jennie’s explanation from the May meeting announcement: Chapter Project ~ Hook-a-Leaf: Members who participate receive a 20” x 20” piece of linen, and will hook a pattern of their choice (must feature a leaf, or leaves). Minimum hooked size is 8” x 8” but can be larger. No other rules!! Be creative and see what you can come up with! These projects will be featured at the Harvest Hook-in this October. I’m particularly fond of gingko leaves. The tree is considered to be a living fossil and is a symbol of longevity. The leaf ..read more

Footstools This month is full of opportunities to hook. Several of us spent Saturday at Orange Coast’s Hook In. Sandy, Jennie, Bonnie and Lynne enjoyed and learned a bunch from Lisanne Miller’s class. Some of us chose to sit and hook, enjoy each other’s company and beautiful work, invest in the vendor’s wares, and chat with friends we see only at an event such as this one. At our regularly scheduled meeting on Saturday, March 18th Donna will teach us how to dye chartreuse. Next day, the 18th, many members will travel to Highland Springs to 123 Farm for the sheep sheering. Sandy enthusiasticall ..read more

Hearts and Flowers                                                February, 2017 If you do not already own “Rugger’s Roundtable” by Jane Olson, and Mildred Sprout’s “Design-A-Patts”, I recommend that you ask friends where you might find copies and search for them at every hooking event. Begun as a newsletter, “Rugger’s Roundtable” is an invaluable reference for anyone interested in rug hooking. In the introduction to the 5 year set, which spans 2006-2010, Jane described the collection as “a guide for the beautiful art of rug hooking. It is a source of instruction, color planning, dye methods ..read more

Please               California’s First Chapter of ATHA Join Us!          Invites you to our 11th Annual Harvest Hook-in “THE ART OF COLOUR”  Saturday, October 8, 2016 from 9 am to 3 pm “A sense of color is not something that you automatically know about; you discover and rediscover its secrets by playing with it and, above all, by constantly looking.” Kaffe Fassett   *New Location*  The River Church *459 E. Highland Ave.*Redlands*CA*92373 Join us for a day of hooking, food, classes, movies, an exhibit to inspire, vendors, raffle baskets, silent auction, a brownie bake-off, Christmas boutique ..read more