Teachers

Teacher Since

1993

Where do you teach?

Home, Creative Needlework Festival (Toronto) and workshops.

What do you teach?

Beginners, Shading, Primitive, Pictorials, Geometrics, 3-D Hooking.

What is your favourite thing to teach?

Everything

How far are you willing to travel to do a workshop?

I generally like to travel about 50 km, but can talk about other distances.

What do you like best about teaching?

It is wonderful seeing students trying new ideas in rug hooking and finding out how their creative thoughts can come alive. I love showing how simple rug hooking is and how to save money by using both recycled material and new.

What is your favourite tip to share with your students?

Create a diary of what you are hooking; use it to record when you start, the name of the designer, colours used, problems that happened and how they were overcome. Don’t be afraid to work with all kinds of material to create some wonderful affects in your hooked pieces.

Teacher Since

2007

Where do you teach?

I teach classes in my basement studio in my home and also rughooking for seniors, for Parks, Forestry and Recreation, on Thursday afternoons. Workshops are generally done in a group setting such as my Agincourt Branch in our regular meeting venue. I am flexible as to where I do my classes.

What do you teach?

I have taught a few beginners their first piece and some beginner flowers, in addition to workshops on specific topics (see below).

Workshops offering:

What is your favourite thing to teach?

I have no real favourite style of hooking. I’m just amazed at all the possibilities.

How far are you willing to travel to do a workshop?

I’m willing to travel within one hour of Toronto.

What do you like best about teaching?

I enjoy researching my topics and implementing them into teachable course outlines. I love to assist others in producing beautiful rugs and to help them extend their knowledge. Mostly, I enjoy the many friendships I have made.

What is your favourite tip to share with your students?

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. They are opportunities to learn more and often are the occasion to have a good laugh about ourselves.