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Los Alamos is the place to be Saturday

 

 

Fuller Lodge Arts Center Summer Arts and Crafts Fair sign - Los Alamos
High on Hooking will be at the Fuller Arts Center Summer Arts and Crafts Fair in Los Alamos this Saturday. Stop by and say hello!

 

 

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“Memory of Water” is going to a show!

Fiber arts eye-candy.
“Memory of Water” is hooked with plastic bags.

 

 

Woohoo! “Memory of Water” is off to another show. Not a fiber arts show, but an exhibit of all kinds of media. Last month I saw that the Fuller Lodge Art Center (FLAC) up in Los Alamos (New Mexico) had a call for artists for “Making Waves,” their August exhibit.

 

 

 

 

 

A single stone thrown into the water can create a ripple that will affect the entire pond. Water is a sacred and often misused blessing, especially in the desert landscape of New Mexico. Take on water and all that it means to us personally. Don’t shy away from the controversy water issues can create! We want to see artwork that makes the biggest splash!

–from FLAC’s website

It appears that after spending a year on my hallway wall, “Memory of Water” made another splash with FLAC’s jurists. (You might remember that it was in Albuquerque’s Open Space Visitor Center’s “WATER” exhibit last year.) The show runs August 2-31, so we’re off to Los Alamos this week to deliver the piece. Tynan and new puppy Bowyn will get to take a ride!

 

Welsh Springer spaniel Tynan on hooked rug.
Tynan presents “What’s on the frame” this week. He wants everyone to remember that he, not Junior (i.e., Bowyn, his new little brother) is the High on Hooking dog. Bowyn would not respect the rug; he’d just eat it. Those are his toys in the background, however. He’s a slob.

 

Truthfully, we’ll be making three trips up north to Los Alamos this coming month. We’ll have to retrieve the piece after the show. And mid month…we’re back up there for FLAC’s Summer Arts and Crafts Fair! First time High on Hooking’s vended this show. Here’s hoping for a beautifully sunny mountain day. No monsoon rains.

Maybe you’ll show at one of these events, particularly if you’re in the greater northern New Mexican area. If you’re at the Arts and Crafts Fair, mention the blog and get 10% off a rug!

 

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AWAG pulls off another great Fiesta

 

Adobe Wool Arts Guild – AWAG – pulls off another great Fiesta booth. All photographs were taken by Gary Lamott. Thanks, man!

 

Hooked AWAG rug
Adobe Wool Arts Guild (AWAG) rug at Fiber Arts Fiesta 2019 in Albuquerque last week.

 

AWAG rug hooking booth at Fiber Arts Fiesta.
AWAG’s booth all gussied up.

 

AWAG friendship rugs.
“9×9”: AWAG’s friendship rug group project.

 

Rugs by AWAG members.
Rugs by AWAG members Cathy, Marcy, and Mary S.

 

Member Dagmar of Zia Woolz.
AWAG member Dagmar wearing her hand-dyed yarn and knitting guru hat. You should check out her Zia Woolz website. Very yummy yarns!

 

Member Catherine hooker extraordinaire.
Catherine hooks and hooks for the public. (In front of “Big Boucherouite.”)

 

AWAG members in front of hooked rugs.
Melinda and Cathy show friendship in front of the friendship rugs.

 

More rugs by AWAG members.
Ruth’s “Klimt” rug (pattern by Michelle Micarelli) on the far left won the Viewers’ Choice award. No one was surprised. Other rugs by Cathy, Mary R, Nancy P, Melinda, Betsy, and Nan.

 

More AWAG hooked rugs.
More rugs by AWAG members. There were 27 juried entries that all got in plus the nine friendship rugs. Rugs here hooked by: Betsy, Nan, Melinda, Catherine, Liz, Nancy H, Laura (me!), Kalea, Mary S, Cathy, Marcy, and Darlene.

 

AWAG friendship rug.
Melinda’s friendship rug. Can you tell which one I hooked? I might add that the t-shirt strips look just like everyone else’s wool strips. (Gary takes a nice shot of his wife’s rug, yes?)
Laura's friendship rug.
And here’s my friendship rug all nice and finished.
Melinda and Laura of AWAG pose with the rugs.
So, I’m not sure why Melinda and I don’t look very happy here. It was the start of Fiber Arts Fiesta 2019. A success story. Thanks again, Gary.

And just like that Fiber Arts Fiesta 2019 is a wrap. Thank goodness. There was a LOT of planning and hooking followed by four straight days of work. In a few days Tom and I will rest. Sort of. We’re off on vacation. More on that later. Perhaps WiFi will be good enough to allow for some Facebook and Instagram pics. If not, you’ll just have to withstand the suspense while you wait for my photos and tales. Be back in a couple of weeks. Enjoy your summer!

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