Teacher will contact students prior to class: Yes
Level: Basic – students must have basic rug hooking knowledge & experience.
Supply description: ¼ yard of wool, Carol’s Color Planning Tips booklet, notepad, & pen.
Students Need to Bring: Basic hooking supplies: a frame, scissors, cutter, cutter blades (your choice), hook, & 1-2 challenging rugs (plus any wool that you think you might like to use in those rugs). Optional: iPad or tablet, if you own one. Students are also encouraged to bring a current project to work on, so that they may sit and hook while the discussion is going on.
Bio: Carol DeCoteau has been hooking for more than 20 years. She learned from Anne Eastwood while living in Florida. Wool was scarce in the warm state so Carol soon discovered that she needed to stock up when visiting her home state of Vermont in the summer. She would color plan her rugs while home in Vermont where the wool was plentiful. After the death of her husband in 1998, Carol moved to the state of New York with her daughter Julie. She would often hook a rug that was inspired from one of Julie’s paintings. Soon after moving to NY, the mother/daughter team became The Old Tattered Flag and Carol became the primary hooker of all of Julie’s designs.
At first, Carol made do with AS IS woolens. She quickly learned that her color palette needed to grow and she started dyeing wool for the business. That palette has grown to over 100 unique hand-dyed and over 300 AS IS woolens that fit the needs of their designs as well as satisfying the needs of their more “bright and colorful” neighbors in Canada to the north.
Specialties: Dyeing, color planning, & hooking Primitive Rugs!