THREE WONDERFUL DAYS -

I spent three wonderful days last week taking a rug hooking

workshop with Cynthia Norwood. The workshop was

held in Sharpsburg, Md. overlooking the Antietam

Battlefield. A more picturesque place for a workshop would be hard

to find. This is just fifteen minutes from my home.

As I was driving home on Saturday evening after the workshop

this was the most beautiful sunset.

Just right for reflecting on the three day event.

Here is Cynthia showing the class a hooking technique.

She is looking wonderful and seems to be

greatly recovered from her recent illness. We were so

grateful to have her and in good health!

Needless to say the class was full. This is an overall

view of part of the class room.

This rug is called Kris Kringle and is a Barb Carroll Design.
This piece was hooked by Cynthia and was on the
cover of the ATHA magazine some months ago. She brought
it so that we could all see the different between a picture and
the real thing. There is a great difference.

Another small piece hooked by Cynthia
with another lesson to be learned by all of us.


As I am sure you are aware, all hookers EAT.
Since the class began at 2pm on Thursday and lasted
until 9 that evening we had a pot luck dinner.
This is just part of the food brought in. All of it delicious.
I do not show it here but there was another table
containing all desserts! Calories galore!!!

Another overall view. I never saw so many hookers
intent on their work. I have attended many camps and
workshops in my years of hooking but I have
never seen such attention and concentration in a
class before. We all had the feeling that this might
be our last chance to work with Cynthia since she is
considering retiring to spend more time with her husband.

A lunch time break. We did take breaks from the

long sit. The workshop was held in the meeting room of

the city hall building. It is most kind of the city fathers to

let us use this room. It is spacious and well lighted with

lots of windows and very comfortable upholstered chairs.

Cynthia working on a rug that she brought to show us.

This rug has a very high chroma and for a primitive

rug is a bit "out of the box." The lesson here was the

clever way that the hooker had balanced the

color.

All in all, I would say that this probably was the best workshop that I have attended in the last 10 years. It was my third experience in working with Cynthia and I must say that I learn something new each time. I have many pictures of the beautiful color plans and the rugs being worked on in this workshop so I will call this part one of the workshop. My next entry on the blog will be pictures of all of the rugs and their beautiful color plans.

Stay tuned for the next chapter in this wonderful experience.

Doris