Friday, October 10, 2008

Teacher Feature - Iris Simpson


Iris Simpson
Let’s Play!

Join me in a weekend of “playing” with wool and other fabrics to create your own masterpiece. Any fabrics or yarns may be used. I will show you the basics of proddy, shaped proddy, needle felting, and the many different creative stitches, which can be used along with traditional rug hooking techniques to spice up your project.
Your piece may be any size and any design, even abstract.


BIOGRAPHY

Iris Simpson is an accredited Ontario Hooking Craft Guild and McGown teacher and holds a Fibre Arts: Traditional Rug Hooking

Iris is active in the OHCG. Having held the position of Vice President, President and Past President, she has now become an Area Representative. She is a member of TIGHR and ATHA).

Iris enjoys all aspects of rug hooking and teaches many one-week classes in Canada, the U.S. and England. She has also taught one-day workshops in many locations in the province. Iris teaches at two McGown Workshops in the States. When time permits, Iris also enjoys teaching Beginners in her home.

Iris’ classes have so far covered the following topics: Primitives, Primitive Animals, Geometrics, Pictorials, Molas, Proddy Plus, Wide Cut, Fruit: Fine & Wide Cut, Scrolls, Butterflies & Moths, Crewel and Open Class, in which any project may be worked on.

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