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Adobe Wool Arts Guild excellent February adventures

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Adobe Wool Arts Guild rug hooking retreat.
Adobe Wool Arts Guild members at our winter retreat in Albuquerque. From left to right: Mary R., Nancy, Mary S., and Melinda. Here we are after we moved into the much warmer hallway to hook.

February’s a big month for the Adobe Wool Arts Guild (AWAG) here in Albuquerque. In addition to our usual monthly meeting and two demo days at the BioPark, we’ve been participating in the Artful Threads show down in Belen’s Harvey House (February 2, 11, and 18). The 25th brings the BioPark’s Winter Wool Festival (make plans to visit that day!). Best of all is our own winter retreat which started today.

 

Hooked rug.
Mary S. is working on a large Currier and Ives design. She loaded it up on her Cheticamp frame, which was new to some AWAG members.

 

Melinda’s almost done hooking her 10-year project (much of which she hooked in the last year after she moved to NM from NH). This rug is 5 feet by 3 feet. I will definitely feature this fabulous rug when she finishes it.
Two women and a hooked rug.
Mary S. advising Liz on her rug.

We held a fall retreat last October. It was a chance to get together and hook uninterrupted for three whole days! Liked it so much, we decided to do it again this month. The good thing is we can reserve a local police substation for free. Worked like a charm twice before for us. There was a little hitch this morning, which happened to be the day winter returned to Albuquerque for a few days. (Yeah, we got an inch of snow, and temperatures DID NOT reach 70 like they did last week. It got to maybe 40. I hear your “sympathies,” New England.) When we opened up the room, it was 53º. It never hit 60. Except in the bathrooms.

Snowy New Mexico scene.
This is a winter storm in Albuquerque. Sure, you can’t see the Sandia Mountains looming behind the cloud, but all we got was about an inch of snow. An inch. It’ll be in the 50s come Wednesday. THIS IS WHY I MOVED HERE FROM NEW ENGLAND! (Sorry about that extra foot or two today, Maine.)

 

 

No matter. We fired up the little hotpot and made tea. And kept our jackets on. Eventually, we moved into a hallway that was a bit warmer. And after entertaining a curious, young officer with a background in graphic design, a maintenance man showed up, hopefully ensuring a warmer retreat day tomorrow. Just in case, a few of us will show up with space heaters. Moral of the story:  Nothing screws with a hookers’ retreat.

 

What does your guild or hooking group do to spark creativity and camaraderie?

 

Have a happy Valentine’s Day, all!

 

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  1. Sylvia Doiron says:

    Hooking in the gardens, delicious idea especially at this time of year. My sister loves Currier and Ives. You’ve given me an idea for next Christmas.

    Keep on blogging!

    • Laura S says:

      Have you at least seen sunshine, Syl? IN the last week, that is? Ooh, a Christmas idea. You’ll have to share it sometime. Here’s to warmer weather and spring in New England!

  2. Deb Moyes says:

    What a lovely Winter scene. The snow is so beautiful down there. One of our favorite drives is from Denver to Santa Fe and we always hope there is snow on the mountains. Hope you got a lot of hooking done!

    • Laura S says:

      I haven’t done that drive yet, Deb. Will let you know when I do. We’re actually losing a lot of our mountain-top snow to evaporation which is a shame as we could use the water. And, yes, I got most of Tynan’s face done. Now to the background to have it all hooked to enter into Fiesta. Applications due March 1!

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