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Santa Fe Spring Festival, June 3 & 4

18th Annual Santa Fe Spring Festival: Featuring Lavender and Fiber Art!

Marketing poster for Santa Fe Spring Festival at El Rancho de las Golondrinas, NM.Celebrate Spring with our Spring Festival: Featuring Herb & Lavender, and the opening of our 2023 season! Learn about New Mexico’s rich cultural heritage through an array of fun activities and demonstrations. Experience traditional New Mexican ranch activities like sheep shearing, spinning and weaving, plus a fiber arts marketplace featuring local artisans and craftsmen, horno bread baking, crafts for children, and more!
-https://golondrinas.org/

We here at High on Hooking hope that you can make it up to El Rancho de las Golondrinas (just sounth of Santa Fe) to celebrate the start of summer here on New Mexico’s high desert. I’ll be sharing a booth with Barbara Knupper, weaver and jewelry maker extraordinaire. You can find her art at the Artful Artisan.

We invite you to peruse our wares and enjoy the atmosphere of the Spring Festival on the ranch! Bring the whole family!

PS – To those, like me, who might be from New England, Las Golondrinas is kind of like a more primitive Sturbridge Village, southwest style:

El Rancho de las Golondrinas is a living history museum located on 200 acres in a rural farming valley just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Museum, dedicated to the history, heritage and culture of 18th and 19th century New Mexico, opened in 1972. Original colonial buildings on the site date from the early 1700s. In addition, historic buildings from other parts of northern New Mexico have been reconstructed at Las Golondrinas. Villagers clothed in the styles of the times show how life was lived on the frontier in early New Mexico. Special festivals and weekend events offer visitors an in-depth look into the celebrations, music, dance and many other aspects of life in the Spanish, Mexican and Territorial periods of the Southwest.
-https://golondrinas.org/

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New Mexico Arts & Crafts Festival – Nov. 19

The New Mexico Arts & Crafts Festival:

It’s a brand new holiday market, and High on Hooking is participating. The festival is local – here in Albuquerque, and it’s free! The parking too!

 

The Art of Gifting: New MExico Arts & Crafts Festival

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

  • More than 80 unique artists and vendors from the area  – perfect for buying holiday gifts for friends and family (and yourself, of course).
  • Live entertainment.
  • Food trucks!
  • Workshops and demos like knitting and crocheting, belly dancing, and free-motion quilting. Kids can make their own crafty gifts too.

WHAT YOU’LL FIND IN HIGH ON HOOKING’S BOOTH:

  • Fabulous hand-hooked art in the form of rugs, bench covers, table runners, wall hangings, and so on.
  • Dog on hooked rug
    Tynan bids you all a WONDERFUL FALL and we hope to see you at the New Mexico Arts & Crafts Festival November 19. This hooked art would look marvelous in your house on Thanksgiving!

    Hand-dyed yarn.

  • Oxford punch needles.
  • info regarding hooking/pinching classes and the Adobe Wool Arts Guild, NM’s only hooking guild.

More information HERE.

So get thee to the UNM Continuing Education Conference Center at 1634 University Blvd. NE, on Saturday, November 19. Mention High on Hooking’s blog or other social media and get 10% off anything we’re offering.

PS – See our CALENDAR page to keep up to date on where you’ll find High on Hooking.

Hope to see you in a couple of weeks at the New Mexico Arts & Crafts Festival!

 

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Fiber Arts Fiesta is almost upon us!

Poster for Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta 2022

A few reminders about the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta!

  • It starts next Thursday, April 14, and runs through Saturday. Make sure you stop by the Adobe Wool Arts Guild booth to say hello and check out the hooked art made by our members.

  • I have two spots in my Introduction to Punch Needle Rug Hooking workshop on Friday. Contact me directly if interested, or you can go through the Fiesta online registration.

  • Parking at Expo only takes cash now, so don’t try to hand them a credit card. Vendors, of course, will take pretty much anything. Bring a tote bag!

See you next week at Fiber Arts Fiesta!

 

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Tynan presents a new project

 

Tynan and the new project

DOg and new project
What’s on the frame: Here’s the new punch needle rug hooking project, just one of too many things she has going on these days. And that doesn’t even include training you-know-who.

 

Tynan here. She’s given me a little access. It’s only fitting as she took the little sh__  Bowyn for a walk this afternoon and neglected me. That was after they played keep-the-frisbee from Tynan. Junior likes to show off how fast he can run away from me after he rubs the damn toy on my back. Piss ant!

Anyway, here’s the new project the mistress is working on. She started it for the punch needle rug hooking class she’s teaching up in Santa Fe tomorrow; it’s a demonstration piece. One day to become a pillow. That is, if she can ever finish the old projects. I think that between the punching, hooking, crochet, and embroidery, she’s got at least four in the fire. And all over the house! Oh and, Ruth, my dear friend Ruth, she hasn’t even touched that miniature punch needle project since the day you taught it to her. (But you didn’t hear that from me.)

I hope you all have a good weekend. Maybe you’d enjoy it more if you invited a certain 10-month old Welsh Springer spaniel to spend it with you. I know I would.

Your ever suffering,

Tynan

PS – The class at the New Mexico Fiber Arts Center still has one or two openings if you’re interested. You can call or walk in. It starts at 10:00 tomorrow morning.

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Starting our artist in residence in Santa Fe this week!

 

Inn on the Alameda, Santa Fe, NM
Inn on the Alameda: “The best of Santa Fe is just a short stroll from the Inn on the Alameda. We are in the heart of the city, just steps from the city’s best restaurants, galleries, and attractions.”

Amidst all the art fairs and general holiday prep, High on Hooking begins as an artist in residence at Santa Fe‘s Inn on the Alameda this Friday. Woohoo! We’ve never done this before, and happily, we’ll be joined by Cathy Kelly. If you’ve read here before, you know that Cathy and I regularly team up under a tent to sell our hooked wares. This winter, though, we won’t be needing no stinkin’ tent. Twice a month through February, we’ll set up shop and workshop next to the Inn’s big, ole fireplace so that we can chat up guests and share the gospel of rug hooking. This is a big thing; Santa Fe, like most of the American Southwest, is all about the weaving. The history and value of our originally northeastern art is less known.

The Inn on the Alameda is one of Santa Fe’s smaller luxury hotels. Unfortunately, I haven’t stayed there, but after visiting last month, I’d certainly like to. (Pray for a snowstorm to suddenly come up one Friday I’m there?) Cathy and I will be “in residence” from from 4:00-7:00 p.m. on the following Fridays: December 20; January 10 and 24; and February 7 and 21. The address is: 303 East Alameda Street, Santa Fe. In addition to a primo location next to the fireplace in the gathering space, they’re providing dinner for us! How swell is that?

I had applied to Santa Fe’s winter artist in residence program sometime last year and then promptly forgot about it. When the Inn contacted me last month, I loved that they were looking for someone other than the usual painter or sculptor. Not that those things are bad, but you know how fiber arts and textiles so often get shoved to the back of the fine art line. Not this time, baby! Okay, a caveat: the Inn will also be hosting other more “regular” artists throughout the winter. And that’s great; it’ll be a fine mix-up for them.

If you’re in the area Friday and need a break from the usual holiday gift buying, etc., come by the Inn on the Alameda in Santa Fe for a visit. There’s even a bar! We’d love to converse and maybe even sell you something better than you’ll get in a tourist trap. As usual, mention this blog post and get 10% off any rug by High on Hooking. If you can’t make it to Santa Fe, be sure to check out our Etsy shop or, even easier, just give me a yell.

 

Tynan on hooked rug in front of Christmas tree
Tynan not only offers to you one of this week’s “what’s on the frame,” but he offers you a hearty HO,HO, HO and Merry Christmas! Happy New Year too! See you in 2020!

 

 

And if I don’t get a chance to tell you before next week: Have a wonderful holiday whether it be Christmas or Hanukkah! Here’s to a happy and healthy 2020 for all!

 

 

 

 

 

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