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The Loopspring 2018 Volume 40 (2) The LoopSpring 2018 Magazine of the Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia The Loon by Don Tabor Visit the Guild website at rhgns.com Join our Facebook Group - Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia RHGNS Mission Statement To encourage participation in the art and craft of rug hooking. To foster a sense of originality and beauty in colour and design. To provide support for the exchange of ideas and information among the members of the RHGNS. To sponsor and financially assist specific programs for the membership, which are designed to promote excellence in the craft. To promote public awareness through exhibitions and publicity. To record and preserve the history of the craft. This Issue’s Cover The Loon by Don Tabor, Springhill, NS Since Don began hooking in 2013, he has admired the work of Joan Moshimer. This is her pattern. The Loon, 2018... a new year! What do you do? Does a new year is an iconic symbol of Canada. When he saw this piece bring new resolutions or perhaps a promise to fulfill old in News and Views, he knew it was going to be his next ones? A member of my rug hooking group, The Rugg project. Bees, has resolved to FIFI, “find it and finish it”. So far, so good, she has completed at least three unfinished Don is a member of the Springhill Hooking Group and projects that she has FIFI’d. the Northport Loopers as well as RHGNS. What are your plans for this new year? Are you working on a group project? Perhaps a series of themed rugs? Our readers want to know. We welcome articles, photographs and submissions and would like to include them in upcoming editions of your magazine, The Loop. Please feel free to contact me if you have any suggestons or questions. My resolution, if you will, is to keep your magazine interesting and relevant. We have so many talented people in the Maritimes and this magazine is here to feature them, inform them and encourage them. Always feel free to email me at [email protected]. Frieda Perry, Loop Editor The Loop RHGNS Magazine • Volume 40 (2) Spring 2018 1 President’s Message Remembering Welcome! I am sure you will find lots of great articles tucked inside the following pages of our Spring issue. Loved Ones Our members have been busily hooking during the past winter months in the comfort of their own homes, at With caring thoughts to family and friends of: hook-ins and other social events. Thank you to the Jeanne Field members who have shared photos of your projects. They Katherine "Kay" Purdy are unique, beautiful works of art. Joan Bogle on the loss of her husband Carol Marie Thorne Several Guild members not only have been hooking, they Beverly Levine on the loss of her father have also been very active in volunteering their time and Rita Wojtyniak on the loss of her father-in-law effort into updating our Guild Guidelines, reviewing our Marie MacVicar on the loss of her mother-in-law, By-Laws, building our new website which was launched Edie Phillips, Life Member recently, organizing our annual Rug School and accepting Deborah Story on the loss of her father in January ideas for our 40th anniversary which is just around the and her mother last September corner in 2019! Carol Ann MacDonald on the loss of her husband Amy Verhagen on the loss of her husband To all of you who volunteer your time, your efforts and Ellen Tancock on the loss of her husband your expertise, the RHGNS membership says a loud and Barb Smith on the loss of her brother resounding THANK YOU! I look forward to seeing many of you at Rug School in May as well as at the “Wonders of the Deep Hooked Rug Show” at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic in Lunenburg between May and October. Happy Hooking! - Sincerely, Linda Alderdice, President PS: Reminder: The registration date for the “Hooked Rug Truck Convoy 2018” is May 30, 2018. Be sure to submit your registration form before that date. Table of Contents President’s Message Page 1 Have you ever thought that Remembering Loved Ones Page 1 you would like to be Rug School Director Search Page 1 Loop Submission Information Page 2 Rug School Director? Membership Message Page 2 We are seeking interested people who may be Mom’s Kurelek Page 3 considering the position of Rug School Director for 40th Anniversary Notice Page 3 the 2020 Rug School. To find out more about the Director’s Reports Page 4 - 10 Director’s position contact Dwight Gallagher at Remembering Edie Phillips Page 10 [email protected] or Linda MacDonald at NB Mat Registry Report Page 11 [email protected] Fundy Region Report Page 11 RHGNS Rug School Classes Page 12 RHGNS Rug School Application Page 13 One-Day Workshops Page 14 One-Day Workshops Application Page 15 Director’s Reports Page 16 - 19 Ganong Chocolate Box Exhibit Page 19 RHGNS Membership Application Page 20 Rug Hooking Groups in Atl. Canada Page 21 - 22 RHGNS Directors & Officers Page 23 Stay In the Loop Page 24 Free Pattern Write-up Page 24 Free Pattern IBC Caroline Simpson’s Ganong mat 2 The Loop RHGNS Magazine • Volume 40 (2) Spring 2018 The Loop Submission Deadline Dates Please Note - for 2018 When sending articles with photos, please do not send To ensure prompt delivery of our magazine to its photos embedded in the article. Please send the article readers, please have all articles, reports, ads, etc. and the photos as separate attachments via email. submitted BEFORE the following deadline dates. Digital photos should be high-resolution for the best results. • May 18, 2018 for the Summer issue Send submissions to: • August 17, 2018 for the Fall issue Frieda Perry, Editor • November 16, 2018 for the Winter issue Email: [email protected] The Editor of The Loop Magazine retains exclusive control over the content and format. All information submitted for publication will be subject to and will be included or excluded in the magazine on the sole discretion of the Editor. Placing an Ad in The Loop: Advertising Rates for The Loop 2018 To place an ad in upcoming issues of The Loop, the contact person is Claire Milton, Publicist. She will require Size Options Dimensions Fee the information for the ad and the ad size. If your ad requires logos or special graphics, it must be sent camera- Full Page 7 x 9.75 inches $140 ready. If you have any questions regarding placing an 1/2 Page 7 x 4.75 inches 70 ad, contact Claire by email: [email protected] 1/3 Page 7 x 3.25 inches 50 or phone 902-523-1937. 1/4 Page 3.25 x 4.75 inches 35 Claire will issue an invoice once your request has been 1/8 page (portrait) 2.25 x 3.5 inches 20 made. PREPAYMENT is required before placing an ad 1/8 page (horizontal) 3.5 x 2.25 inches 20 in The Loop. Cheques are to be made payable to the Business Card 3.5 x 2 inches 15 RHGNS. These details are included in the invoice Claire will send to you once you place your ad. Message Regarding SPRUCE TOP RUG HOOKING STUDIO Membership Starting October 1, 2017, any members renewing or 255 Main Street joining the Guild after a Loop magazine has been issued, will receive the issued magazines in PDF Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia format only and the remaining issues for that Phone: 902-624-9312 membership year as requested. Toll Free: 1-888-784-4665 The RHGNS is working very hard on your behalf to www.sprucetoprughookingstudio.com modernize. As part of the modernization, we have a new pricing structure. Effective immediately, Membership cost for new and renewing members in Canada is $35 and for outside Canada, $50. Subscriptions to the Loop are not longer available. If you renew your membership after the printing of the Loop in the new year beginning 1st of October (first printing is in December), you will receive the electronic version of the Loop only. With our new website still under construction, we will eventually have the option of e-transfer and paypal as methods of payment. Designed and hooked by Shelly Atkinson , a member of the Colchester Heritage Rug Hookers The Loop RHGNS Magazine • Volume 40 (2) Spring 2018 3 from “ LesHookeuses de Grande-Digue Hookers”, Mom’s Kurelek/ Le namely Marielle, Nicole, Sharon and Carmen, who have helped me with this project by offering precious guidance, tips, advice and some hooking materials. I have also Kurelek à Mamà used recycled materials from my husband’s Aunt Joan On his cross-country painting tour in the early 1970’s, Albert who is an avid hooker in Nova Scotia. William Kurelek stayed at my parent’s on Prince Edward - Submitted by Jeanne Maddix Island. Information on this artist can be found at http:// canadianart.ca/artists/william-kurelek/. Kurelek was a good friend of my brother Emmett. As a thank you gift, he gave my parents a painting entitled “Summer Kitchen”. Mom commented to Emmett that she could do “just as good as Kurelek” so Emmett challenged her to paint. The result of Mom’s painting became fondly known as “Mom’s Kurelek” and each of my 11 siblings has a copy. Basque Fairy Tale Pattern Available 82”x20” Emmett and I estimate that Mom probably did that michelemicarelli.com painting around 1975. This is a copy of the painting that 62 Elmwood Rd.
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