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“Wool Gizzard Basket” Workshop with Linda Pietz

Date: 1 Day – Saturday, August 18, 2012 – 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Class Fee: $90.00 / Members $84.00 Kit Fee: $12.00 - payable to teacher at the beginning of class Location: Heritage Inn – Board Room Linda’s Website: www.nolahooks.com  Description: What to do with all those gizzards (worms, strips of cut wool) left over from your hooked rugs? Linda has a beautiful solution for you. Why not turn them into a wool gizzard basket? You will start by learning how to make cordage, an ancient rope making technique, from your gizzards. Next, Linda will teach you to make your colorful cordage into a basket using coiling with perle cotton as the binding material. This is the same technique as used in making pine needle baskets. Linda will discuss shaping as this technique adapts well to you adding your own creative flair.  This basket is so much fun to make, you won't want to stop. It makes a great little container for your wool snippets. Level:  Students who register for this workshop will need to have: No Experience – everyone welcome, no prior rug hooking knowledge or experience required.  Kit description: A bag of colorful gizzards, perle cotton, #18 tapestry needle, and hand-outs. List of What Students Need to Bring to the Workshop: Scissors. Bio: It would be a bit of an exaggeration to say that Linda Pietz was born with a paintbrush in one hand and yarn and needles in the other, but not too much of a stretch. Having both parents as artists and a great aunt who did it all in fiber arts, how could it be otherwise? Linda learned to knit at age four and from there she never stopped her passion for art and all things fiber related. While finishing up her bachelor’s degree in fine arts at Washington University in St. Louis, Linda started designing needlepoint. After graduation, she started her own needlepoint design company, Cactus Needle, selling to shops nationwide. She has created needlepoint designs for Dimensions and Bucilla and her designs have been featured in Woman’s Day Magazine and Family Circle Magazine. Several years ago, Linda began designing rug hooking patterns featured on her sister Nola Heidbreder’s website. Her designs have been featured in publications such as The Art of Playing Cards, Contemporary Hooked Rugs, Hooked Rugs Today, The Creative Hooker, and Rug Hooking Magazine. Linda also has a passion for teaching and has taught in California, Texas, Missouri, the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, and as a volunteer teacher at the Christianson Native Craft Workshop in St. Louis which is dedicated to preserving traditional arts and crafts. Specialties: color theory, elements and principles of design, drawing, acrylic and watercolor painting, perspective drawing, knitting, embroidery, rug making, weaving, quilting, doll making and pine needle baskets. She loves it all, but a real favorite is teaching color theory to rug hookers. [return to workshop listing]

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