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“Hit-or-Miss 101” Workshop with Wendy Miller

Date: Afternoon – Friday, August 17, 2012 – 1:00 – 4:30 p.m. Class Fee: $50.00 / Members $46.00 Kit Fee: $45.00 - payable to teacher at the beginning of class Location: Founder’s Hall – Stage Right Wendy’s Website: www.theredsaltbox.com Description: Love hit-or-miss borders or hit-or-miss rugs? This workshop will focus on six variations of the technique. Wendy uses the hit-or-miss technique extensively in her hooked rugs and she has selected her favorite techniques to share with you in this workshop project. Wendy will cover: straight line one color hit-or-miss, straight line variegated hit-or-miss, boxed or square one color hit-or-miss, boxed or square variegated hit-or-miss, continuous maze variegated hit-or-miss, and straight line dashed hit-or-miss. Students will be working on a 12” x 12” Hit-or-Miss geometric sampler pattern which is divided into sections so that you can hook and practice each of the six techniques. The finished hooked piece will make a very nice hooked pillow or mat, and will make an excellent reference piece to be used as a visual guide for future projects. For this workshop, students should bring wool strips in a range of colors and values – enough to fill several one-gallon Ziploc bags. Wool that is loosely woven or easily ravels is not recommended. It will simplify yourworkshop experience to bring and work with allthe same width or cut of strips, choose one cut size #6 up to #8.5. Wendy prefers to work in #8 or #8.5 cut strips (approximate 1/4” wide) but you should bring the cut size you are most comfortable with hooking with, in the #6 - #8.5 range. Bring 1/8 yard of black wool pre-cut in the same cut size that you selected for your other strips. Level: Basic – students must have basic rug hooking knowledge and experience. Kit Description: 12” x 12” geometric pattern (hand-drawn straight on grain) on primitive linen (designed just for this workshop). Students Need to Bring: Basic hooking supplies: a frame, scissors, cutter, cutter blades (see description), and  hook, plus 1/8 yard pre-cut black wool (see description), and pre-cut wool strips (see description). Bio: Wendy Miller learned the basics of rug hooking in 1999. In 2001, with the encouragement of local rug hooking friends, she started selling her rug designs under the company name The Red Saltbox. She designs both primitive folk art style rug patterns, as well as antiqueinspired designs. She hooks almost exclusively in a wide cut #8.5 and herspecialty is working with textured/plaid wools in a very primitive color palette. Her rugs have an instant old-age appearance to them. Wendy is an accomplished rug hooker, a four time Celebration finalist and recipient of the Sauder Award in both 2003 and 2005. Her rugs appeared in Celebration XV, XVI, XVII and XVIII and she has also served as a Celebration judge in 2009. Wendy is a member of ATHA and travels across the country teaching wide cut techniques, as well as teaching at her studio located in Attica, Indiana. Wendy writes regularly for Rug Hooking Magazine and also published her own dye book, "Recipes from The Kitchen of The Red Saltbox.” Specialties: Designing primitive, whimsical, folk art and antique inspired rugs and dyeing wool in a primitive color palette. [return to workshop listing]

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