Capturing the Enchantment of Storybook Cottages in Rugs  Workshop

Bio: Lisanne also has wool in her veins. She first held a hook at the age of fourteen as part of the Bicentennial celebration of America: hooking a simple chair pad from some of her mother’s old wool suits. The hook, wool, extra burlap, and chair pad traveled around with Lisanne, treasured and stored in her mother’s cedar chest. Then one day, a dear friend revealed that she had a new interest she just loved: primitive rug hooking. Lisanne went back to her hooking roots and has never looked back or put her hook down since, spending her time and imagination creating and designing whimsical, wonderful pieces of modern-day folk art.

Previously the founder and designer of P is for Primitive and Peace, Love, and Wool, Lisanne now owns a treasured source of rug hooking supplies and inspiration: W. Cushing & Co. in Wells, Maine.  She is the author of Beautiful Wool: In the Dye Kitchen with Lisanne Miller, which guides the reader through the process of creating glorious colors and applying dyeing techniques. Lisanne is the director of Caraway Rug School, has earned the status of “Fellow” and a Master Craftsmen of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi and was named one of the Top 40 Artists. Her rugs have appeared in Rug Hooking magazine, The Wool Street Journal, numerous ATHA publications, books by Jessie Turbayne and “Top 40 at 40.” Lisanne was also nominated for her work and company by Martha Stewart Living as a “Made in America” craft/company.

Lisanne teaches in her Maine studio, as well as across the United States privately and at the Caraway Rug School, Rug Hooking Week at Sauder Village, and Old Cape Cod Rug School.   Her specialties are color planning, hooking outside the lines, watercolor effect in rug hooking, antique-inspired, naïve folk art, whimsical designs, architecture and landscape.