LEVEL:   Intermediate – students must have basic rug hooking knowledge and experience. This retreat will focus on the specific techniques and topics listed by the instructor; students are not required to have knowledge or experience in those specific areas.

STUDENTS NEED TO BRING:  Basic hooking supplies: a frame, scissors, cutter, cutter blades #3 - #6, hook, & proddy tool (teacher will provide more info on proddy tool selection).

BIO:  It all started nearly 20 years ago at her son’s soccer game, where Chris was intrigued by two moms who were hooking rugs. During the next week, one of those moms drew a small pattern on a piece of burlap for Chris. The next weekend, before the game started, Chris was choosing colors from a stack of wool her friend had brought. With the cutter positioned on the trunk lid of her car, she proceeded to cut the wool Chris needed to hook her first rug. Many soccer games, hooked rugs, and three wedding rugs later, Chris has found her niche in rug hooking – especially proddy. She has mentored friends and family in hooking basics, color selection, dye techniques, and proddy.

Chris’ Wedding Crock Bouquet was featured in Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs XVIII and was exhibited at Sauder Village, Caraway Rug School, and the “Off the Hook” Dogwood ATHA exhibit in Buford, GA. Her work has also appeared in Gail Dufresne’s Rug Hooking with Fancy Fibers and Jessie Turbayne’s Hooked Rugs of the Deep South.

Chris is a retired Labor and Delivery nurse, who taught Lamaze childbirth classes for 25 years.  Currently, in her north Georgia mountain community, she serves as a Volunteer Support Firefighter and Emergency Medical Responder.