I try not to do NEWS-based posts too often, you know, catching up with what’s been happening here at High on Hooking, but sometimes you just have to. Not only is the selling season coming on quickly, but there are a couple of shows right around the corner.
- First up is the Spring Show put on every other year (even) by Albuquerque’s Fiber Arts Council. Many of you watched as I hooked and hooked my little fingers to the bone to have “Memory of Water” ready for the April 7 and 8 (Saturday and Sunday) exhibition. As I’m on one of the committees, I’ll be busy from Friday through the weekend. If you’re a local, please try to make it down and support the fiber artists of the greater Albuquerque area. It’s free; hours are 9-5 both days with an artists’ reception Saturday evening, 5-7.
- And let the selling begin! A couple of weeks ago I received official word that I’d again been juried into Albuquerque’s Recycled Art Fair. This year it’s a little earlier: the weekend of April 14 and 15, 10-4, and it’s at the Open Space Visitors’ Center on Coors. If you remember my experience last year at the end of April, you might also recall the snow, rain, wind, and all-round cold temperatures we had. Not the usual weather here in Albuquerque at that time of year (except for the wind, of course), but not completely out of the ballpark. So, PLEASE PRAY that this year we get the nice weather I moved out here for, that we’ve enjoyed all winter! This is a fun festival: food, music, family activities, and good art – treasures that came from other folks’ trash. Hope we see you there too.
- Just this weekend I received notice that “Memory of Water” had been accepted into
“Memory of Water.” Framed, she’s about 22.5″x18.5″ and plastic bag on monks’ cloth. another show. Woohoo! This one’s also being held at the Open Space Visitors’ Center on Coors here in town, and it’s a fiber arts exhibit with the theme of WATER. It opens April 28 and runs through May 27. For New Mexican fiber buffs, it’s being put on in conjunction with the New Mexico Fiber Crawl happening May 18-20. Call me if you’re interested in this one. By chance it’s right down the street from my house; we can go together.
- As many of you know, for the past two years, I’ve vended at the Albuquerque Rail Yards Market that takes place May – October, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. I love it there; it’s a people-watchers delight plus you can pick up good food, produce, and well-priced art and listen to different music each weekend. It’s just an all-round fun place to spend a few hours, and booths are more than reasonable at $20/any given Sunday. Unfortunately, last year I didn’t do as well as I had the previous year. Other artists said the same thing. So, this year, I’ve decided to cut my days at the market to once per month. I’ll still get the exposure and have a chance to sell, but I won’t worry that I could’ve been somewhere else.Or force Tom to help me set up and break down for nothing. Dates I’ll be at the Rail Yards are: May 27; June 10; July 8; August 12; September 9; and October 14. Maybe we’ll see you there…
I think that’s it for all the big, official news. Keep checking back to our home page; we add events as they come up. Now for the weekly “What’s on the frame” segment. Actually, this week we’ve got two frames and two rugs! Check out the pics for the scoop.
For your sake, I hope that’s spring’s either arrived in your neck of the woods or is right around the corner. My sympathies yet again for New England and the fourth nor’easter in as many weeks or less. But spring will come; it always does.
What’s the news where you hail from? Plans for when it finally warms up?
That’s an interesting frame, never seen one like that. Interesting link too – I’m assuming that it’s a site for excess rug hooking equipment? I had a big hoop with a stand but felt uncomfortable hooking on it. I do better in my lap.
We have guests coming Easter Weekend, so I’m finishing up the newly painted guest room and digging the other one out. That is the “wool room” and it is pretty disorganized. I don’t know why I can’t make the wool behave. I have a lot of it as I do want to braid a rug or two, and braiding “eats up” wool. We moved a set of drawers from one bedroom to the other and I am putting projects in those…
I proposed some one morning quilting workshops to the art center for this summer, (where I volunteer), and am hoping they accept them. Then I’d like to do some dyeing classes, a long quilt class and – rug hooking!
I’m envious of all your opportunities, but I do have them. They just aren’t so fiber specific so I have to break new ground…
Good luck with the workshops. I find that most opportunities open up as I talk to people when I sell. And that goes better here than back in Mass., I do have to say. Hoping to get more students this year, but must figure out how best to go about that. The Anderson frame is very nice, a piece of furniture, in fact. This one was made for punching and hooking; the pins are closer together. Unfortunately, Mr. Anderson dies a few years back, so there’s no website for the frames anymore. Yesterday, I learned about Talon frames. Very cool. I want the travel sized lap frame, but Tom would kill me if he heard I want another frame, so I’ll sit on that for a bit. 🙂 I do have a few Puritans now that students can use. And I’m storing a guild puritan in my garage! If I need it… I’m jealous of your home improvement projects; we need new flooring, and have LOTS of floor. Have to figure out the most efficient way to do it, but will probably just re-carpet. Have fun with your company next weekend. Melinda and her husband will be here “recuperating” from moving into a new house they’ve just had built. By chance they built on this side of town. Makes getting together (and getting in trouble) easier. 🙂
I’ve not heard of Talon, but a lot of hookers in my IL guild had Snapdragons…
https://www.snapdragonframes.com
Dorr Woolen Mill has an inexpensive wooden frame that uses tacks, which is how I learned. I actually did buy some and then the students bought them… They used to have a free shipping week and I’d buy them then.
https://dorrmillstore.com/site/products/category/hooking_frames/172
I don’t like using hoops – I find it so difficult, but most of the guild ladies said they learned that way. I could get Peter to make some for me. My original RH teacher’s husband did!
Ha! Tom made a bunch of frames for me for putting rugs on the wall. They were a la Amy Oxford: straight frames with carpet tack. Same things he made for me to punch with. I have a guild mate with a snapdragon. Haven’t tried that but tried others. Frankly, the ones that twirl and can reset their angles, require more work than I like. I just twirl my Puritan. Then I learned yesterday that they aren’t making Puritans may more. Not surprised. Never got a lot of support when I called from IN TOWN for info. Hoops not my favorite either. Pain in the butt to get already hooked areas under the hook. I have 3 puritans. May buy another one that my guild has. By chance it’s now living in my garage. But Tom is like NO. Hm, must go around him…