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“Doggone Jewelry” Workshop with Cindi Gay

Date: 1 Day – Saturday, August 18, 2012 – 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Class Fee: $90.00 / Members $84.00 Kit Fee: (See below) - payable to teacher at the beginning of class Location: Founder’s Hall – Stage Right Cindi’s Website: www.cindigayrughooking.com Description:  Hook three small 2" x 2" portraits of your favorite dog, cat or other critter and make them into  pieces of jewelry. Learn how to take your pet photo and transform it into its simplest form for a hooking pattern. Cindi will you in advance to give you the option of selecting from a wide variety of animal patterns or you may send a photo in advance for a custom design. You will be hooking in #3 - # 4 cuts. Some background or borders can be hooked with wider strips. Cindi will show you how to finish your hooked piece into a pin or pendant for a necklace. Let's get creative and recycle a forgotten necklace into a new favorite. These projects are small and very personal. They make great Christmas presents. Hook in the morning and finish it in the afternoon! Level:  Basic Skills – students must have basic rug hooking knowledge & experience. Kit description: Three 2” x 2” patterns on one piece of rug warp, wool to finish all three projects, and instructions. Cindi will send you design options and costs. Students Need to Bring: Basic hooking supplies: a frame, scissors, cutter, cutter blades #3 - #4, & hook. Students may also bring sewing thread and needles, beads, buttons, chains made of metal, leather or cording or other jewelry findings if you have them. Cindi will have a supply of jewelry options available for purchase that will turn your simple hooking into a treasured personal piece of jewelry.  Bio: Cindi has been involved in art all her life, studying at the Toledo Museum of Art while in elementary school and majoring in commercial art in high school. She tried many different mediums until she found her niche in 2000 when she discovered rug hooking. Teaching at her home and across the country, Cindi has also designed a line of patterns that is available through Spruce Ridge Studios. She has developed two dye books, Dyeing without Dye and Dyeing by the Numbers. Three of her rugs have appeared in Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs and she has written for Rug Hooking Magazine. Her book, Pine Trees, Grass and Sky will guide you through the steps to hook her signature pine trees. Specialties: Color planning to get that special spark, use of textures, simple realistic landscape techniques (especially for sky and pine trees), tips and tricks to make all styles of rug hooking easier, custom pattern designing. [return to workshop listing]

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