How would you like to be involved in a rustic, retreat weekend with only hooking to think about?

The location is ‘A Little Piece of Heaven’ just 5 minutes off the 401 in Belleville Ontario. Come and enjoy a very private pond for swimming and paddling, wooded trails for walking and lots of comfy chairs inside and out for your hooking pleasure.

There are beautiful views all around and the peace of the early morning and evening hours are ‘to dye for’.

Karen and Kurt Kaiser welcome you to very exciting Hooking Retreat Weekends right in the middle of their 167 acre farm where seasonal fruits and vegetables abound! You can choose weekends with instruction or not.

The accommodation is 4 in the trailer, 3 in the bunks, 1 roll-out couch, 2 sharing a queen size bed and the teacher has my studio…sort of like camping.
All meals are included in the price.
If you need, you are welcome to bring snacks.
There will be a total of 11 hours of instruction.

PLANNED ITINERARY

You will arrive after lunch on Friday, get settled in, familiarize yourself with the surroundings and get to know your room mates.
2:30-4:30 Your teacher/advisor will be there to give introductory instruction.
4:30-6:00 HAPPY HOUR Feel free to bring your own beverages of choice.
Friday Dinner will be served at 6:00
Depending on the weather we will have a campfire/pajama party ( lots of junk food and pop…maybe even marshmallows to roast) or you can just sit and hook.

Saturday & Sunday
Coffee will be ready at 6:00 am for those early risers who like to hook and watch the sun come up.

A serve-yourself breakfast will be available 7:00-8:30 (juice, cereal, muffins, toast, fruit etc.)
Saturday will be a full day of instruction.
OPEN weekends will consist of just hooking and relaxing with an advisor/teacher present to give advice.
Lunch will be available 12:00-1:00

Saturday Dinner will be served at 6:00

Sunday
Sunday will be a half day of instruction and conclusion to classes.
Lunch will be available 12:00-1:00

Cost for the full weekend: $300. per person. (minimum of 7 students needed )
Day students will be invited to attend at a cost of $150.( including 2 lunches and snacks) if the teacher feels she can handle more than 10 students.

As of August 25, I have four teachers committed to seven weekends....just seven more to go!

Tentative weekends for 2009:

April 3-5 Janice Daniels- “Reigning cats”
April 17-19 Jeanne Field will join us and lend us her invaluable knowledge "for your hooking pleasure"

May 1-3 Wendie Scott-Davis - "Jeanius Bags"
May 15-17

June 12-14
June 26-28

July 10-12
July 24-26 Wendie-"Signs"

August 7-9 Karen Kaiser- "Conceive, contrive, construct"( A weekend devoted to designing)
August 21-23

September 11-13
September 25-27 Wendie- 'Positives of Negative space'

October 2-4 Jeanne Field-will be available all weekend for you and your hooking questions that need answering
October 30-Nov.1

Rug hooking Retreat Weekends

Having Rug hooking retreats isn't a new concept but I think it could happen and I will make it happen, right here on the farm in Belleville Ontario.

I intend to hire fun, energetic teachers to come and give weekend workshops. Plan to arrive on a Friday after lunch and stay til Sunday after lunch.
Just in the planning stages, I hope to get this idea started for next summer, June until the end of September.

This is the house in which we can sleep 7 people, eat, learn.....and,of course, hook.

The sunroom is the best place to hook.

The pond is perfect for swimming, paddleboating and fishing. It is one acre square, 14 feet deep and is fed by our well.The 26 ft.trailer can sleep 4 comfortably.

The bright,open concept living area with lots of windows will be a good space for teaching. We can add some more tables and chairs for the students.

The garage is where we do our dyeing so we can open all doors and let the breezes blow through. My120 pound puppy, Woody will be there to greet you and would be happy to join you if you decide to go for a walk. What do you think?

I think it will be fun!!

My Award Winners

This is my latest award winning piece. It is called " Blueberry Leaves"

It's approx. 24X36 inches and has been sold already.

My inspiration for the piece was a walk in the blueberry patch on one sunny November day when the leaves were on the ground.I took a few pictures. The following photo was the one that I fashioned my piece from.

My first award was for this piece titled "My Boot". It was an old workboot that My husband found in the barn. I hooked the pieces then sewed them together to cover the boot.

This was done in 2004 for the OHCG annual Theme Competition, held in Burlington Ontario.

The West Moira Rughookers were established in 2005. I designed this banner and everyone hooked a fruit or weather square.I hooked my house, my dog and the sunflowers.

We meet at my house in Belleville, Ontario every Thursday 9:30-1:00. We are 1.5 hours east of Toronto on the 401.

We bring our lunch and a loonie for tea and welcome any visitors who would like to join us.

Call 613-966-2658 and we will be happy to give you directions.

We won the award for the original design at the 2007 annual.

The other two awards are pictures in my first blog; The Cottage Country collage and the MacBeth rugs were both created for the Theme award that is given out every year at the Ontario Hooking Craft Guild's annual meetings.