2018 Monthly Meeting Schedule

16 Jan - Memories of the 2017 ATHA Biennial and Care and Maintenance of Cutters and Frames

Diana K. will share a PowerPoint presentation about the 2017 ATHA Biennial in Cleveland, Ohio. ( For a preview, check out this write-up by the Woolwrights Rug Hooking Guild as well as this blog entry entitled Rug-Hookers show off their craft at biennial fiber art exhibit. ) Diana will also demonstrate how to clean a variety of cutters and frames. Bring your cutters if you have never taken them apart and cleaned them. And bring your gripper frames as well. Tools will be available for you to use to remove all those stray strands of fiber from the grippers.

Members: Please bring a favorite hook for a special photograph of just hands holding different styles of hooks.

20 Feb - Hook-in.

Bring projects to work on and completed projects for show-and-tell. Also, please bring your cutter with #6 blade to help strip wool for rug hooking kits to be sold at the Sheep & Wool Festival in May and the MD Irish Festival in Nov.

20 Mar - Hook-in and Prep for Sheep & Wool

Bring projects to work. Help assemble beginner rug hooking kits for our booth at the Sheep & Wool Festival in May.

17 Apr - Presentation by Joan Wray followed by a workshop on walking chicks

15 May - Presentation by Kathy Makers followed by workshop

Kathy Makers of Primitive Homespuns Wool & Needleworks will be our presenter. Check out this blog posting to read a fiber-artist's impression upon visiting Primitive Homespuns just after it opened in 2016. During the afternoon mini-workshop, we will be making a small penny purse as shown below. Choice of fabric are the two behind the sample.

As an extra bonus during the meeting, we will also have a brief conversation with Chad Buterbaugh, Director, Maryland Traditions, who will explain what Maryland Traditions is all about and how Mason-Dixon might become more involved.

12 Jun - Note that the date is a week earlier than usual. Pan-Fried Dyeing

Connie Bateman and Leanne Sitler will present "Pan-Fried Dyeing." For related info, please see LCs Wool and Silk and Making Wool Sing: Dyeing and Hooking Silk and Velvet from the Spring 2016 issue of Rug Hooking Magazine. Join us for our summer potluck luncheon!

17 and 18 Jul - Footstool Finishing with Loris Blandford

Sign up for her July workshop to upholster and finish your footstool.

Chad Buterbaugh from Maryland Traditions will return with recording equipment to sit with members and record their personal stories.

Beth Petry from the MD State fair will be available to help anyone who want to register rugs online for the fair.

We will also have a members' work session to help sort / price / tag new wool, patterns and dye-related equipment in preparation for the sale in November.

21 Aug - Prep for MD State Fair

Making corn kits to add to our beginner kits to sell at the State Fair. Please bring #6 cutters to help with the wool cutting. We'd appreciate your help in assembling the kits.

Sharon K. and Ange B. will be collecting rugs for entry in the State Fair. Please have the entry form filled out. (See Open Class Home Arts for further information.) Rugs will be returned at the September meeting unless you make other arrangements with Ange.

Marian H. will give a short slide presentation about her rug hooking trip to Guatemala earlier this year with Mary Anne Wise of Multicolores. Check out the Gallery of hooked rugs included in this review of Rug Money: How a Group of Maya Women Changed their Lives through Art and Innovation.

Loris Blandford will be at the meeting to help with footstool assembly and to return some finished footstools.

Ann A. will have a sign-up sheet for the Maryland Irish Festival scheduled for 9 - 11 November.

Elinor T. will also be at the meeting with her friend Patricia Sharrer who will tell us about a Fiber Arts Cruise from Cape Liberty, NJ to Quebec City, Quebec, scheduled for September 2019.

The Anne Arundel Rug Hooking Guild has invited Bill Bishop, photographer for the Celebration magazine, to take pictures of rugs. Pam M. needs a count of people and of rugs by the August meeting. She will need your name and size of the rug(s). The cost is $35 for a single photo of one rug or $45 for the four photo set that can be used to enter Celebration magazine.

18 Sep - Presentation by Loretta Scena

Mason-Dixon will also host a three-day open workshop with Loretta starting that afternoon. The cost is $150 for 12 students. Mason-Dixon members will receive first choice. A drawing will be held if more than 12 sign up.

16 Oct - Presentation by Loring Boglioli

This will be a show and tell about Penny Rugs. Loring is from Baltimore and used to hook rugs until she discovered pennies. She's known for using alternative materials, and in February of this year she was an artist at the American Craft Council's Craft Show . Check out her Artist's Statement and Biography from Fleckenstein Gallery in Baltimore.

Also, Ron Dodd will bring a selection of his mother's hooked rugs for us to enjoy. According to her obituary, Catherine Neilson was best know for her skill and devotion to the artistry of rug hooking. She was the founder of the Anne Arundel Chapter of rug hookers.

20 Nov - Wool Sale !!

This will be the long-anticipated sale of wool donated to Mason-Dixon. Members are also invited to bring items from their own stash to sell.

Joan Wray's Feather Tree kits will also be available for purchase.

18 Dec - Holiday Pot Luck Luncheon and Gift Exchange