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Punch at the Mountain & Valley Wool Festival!

Punch Needle Rug Hooking Workshop
Mountain and Valley Wool Festival
October, 2023

Logo for the Mountain and Valley Wool Festival. Learn Punch Needle Rug Hooking at the Festival.
Logo for the Mountain and Valley Wool Festival

If you’ve had a yen to experience Santa Fe and all she has to offer – especially in regard to wool and fiber arts – then plan on being here the first week of October when New Mexico is at her most beautiful. And if you’ve been wanting or maybe putting off learning punch needle rug hooking, then start making your arrangements now!

High on Hooking will be offering a PUNCH NEEDLE RUG HOOKING WORKSHOP in conjunction with the festival, which, BTW, is the new incarnation of the Taos Wool Festival. Sadly, the festival outgrew its digs in Taos, but that is a HUGE PLUS for those of us south of Taos. Plus parking and just getting to the fairgrounds are soooo much easier.

Things going on at the festival:

  • An Outstanding regional wool market featuring Juried Artists, Crafters and Vendors offering their wool, fiber, yarns,fiber arts-related tools and equipment as well as finished items and other artistic, fiber creations.
  • Fiber Critter Corner that includes live sheep, alpacas, goats, angora rabbits, and more.
  • Demonstrations of spinning, dyeing, shearing sheep and many other fiber related skills.
  • Competitions for handspun yarn, hand dyeing, fleeces (wool and alpaca) and finished garments and home accessories.
  • Silent Auction, featuring many unique donated items.
  • Hands-On Activities for kids of all ages.
  • Workshops before the festival weekend.
  • Food vendors offering a variety of beverages, snacks and lunch items.
  • With the added ambience of live music, the festival is unique and fun for the whole family.

The workshop schedule isn’t out yet, but keep an eye out on the MAVWA site HERE. And feel free to contact me directly about the punch needle rug hooking class. In the meantime, enjoy your summer!

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PROTEST show opens October 7

 

PROTEST: See Something, Say Something

Please Join Us For The Two Moons Exhibit Series Opening Reception

Art show poster for Protest

 

Friday, October 7, 5:30 pm to 8 pm
at FUSION 700-708 1st St., NW – Downtown ABQ

Part of the Two Moons exhibit series curated by artist Martin Terry, this contemporary exhibition – PROTEST, See Something, Say Something – will focus on a select group of artists whose works speak to a social consciousness. Included are fiber arts, sculpture, painting, graphite, mixed media, written word, video, song, and other new and innovative means of communicating social commentary. Work in a wide range of styles matches the breadth of subjects addressed, including racism, sexism, economic inequality, climate change, violence, political upheaval, war, disease, and hatred.

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Punch Needle at Heart of NM Fiber & Art Gathering

Love punch needle? New Mexico or visiting fiber folks, this is for you!

The HEART OF NEW MEXICO FIBER AND ART GATHERING happens in Edgewood at the Wildlife West Nature Park during Labor Day Weekend. If you’ve had a yen to learn punch needle, now’s your chance. WORKSHOP info HERE.

PLUS there will be vendors, other workshops, music, animals, and all kinds of things. Register online or contact me with interest or questions concerning the punch needle class.

PS – If you can’t make this workshop, see the CALENDAR for other class opportunities.

 

Punch Needle workshop info and poster

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FABRIC OF NEW MEXICO EXHIBIT – July 1

Hooked art, Holes, to be in Fabric of New Mexico art show
“Holes” – mostly repurposed textiles hand-hooked on monk’s cloth; 68″x33″x0.75″

 

 

 

The Fabric of New Mexico exhibit opens Friday, July 1 at Fusion in downtown Albuquerque. All are cordially invited to the opening reception, 5:30-8:00 p.m.

This exhibit stretches the limits of fiber art to celebrate the full range of innovative creativity in fabric, including quilting, macramé, embroidery, rug hooking, and work with plastics, paper, metal, and wire. Curated by artist Martin Terry, the show includes work by twenty New Mexico artists including Sara Miller, Larry Schulte, Betty Busby and Judith Roderick.

More information about Fusion can be found HERE. Also, the gallery will be open for the Summer Sundays Markets, Last Fridays (of each month), theater events, and concerts. See EVENTS. If you can’t make it to the gallery any of those days, please contact High on Hooking, and we can have the gallery opened up for a private viewing.

Note: Parking is available just across the street in the city parking lot.

aFabric of New Mexico Opening Reception Invitation
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