Ho, Ho, Ho, It's Santa Time! Workshop

Teacher will contact students prior to class:

Level: Intermediate - Students must have good rug hooking knowledge & experience. This is an advanced techniques workshop

Supply fee description: Santa pattern (students will select from Donna’s Santa’s patterns in advance of class), each are 14” x 17” hand drawn on bleached linen. A wool packet of skin tones in three values as well as a small packet of wool strips to hook Santa's eyes will be included, along with a written handout.

Donna will also bring a wide variety of dyed wool for sale to choose from for Santa's suit and the various backgrounds. Additional Santa patterns from the collection will also be available for purchase.

Students Need to Bring: Basic rug hooking supplies: a frame, scissors, cutter, cutter blades #3-5, & hook. (Donna will bring her cutter & #3 blade, for those who don’t have that size)

Bio: Donna Hrkman has a lifelong history as an artist. She has experience in drawing and painting and has been hooking rugs since 2003. Donna had a stencil business for ten years and did freelance fabric design for the Daisy Kingdom Fabric Company prior to taking up rug hooking.

Donna has developed a reputation for realistic portraits, from hooking historical figures to important causes to members of her own family. Another specialty is monochromatic rugs. She has exhibited her work in art shows and galleries, and has written the books Rug Hookers Companion and Creative Techniques for Rug Hookers, and recently published a new book about monochromatic rugs, Shades, Tints, Tones, Values. Her rugs have won awards and have been in Celebrations 14 times. Donna was inducted into the Celebration Hall of Fame in 2018. She has also published many articles for Rug Hooking magazine. She continues to strive for excellence in her work and in her teaching, too. Donna has taught at guilds and schools all across the country. She loves making rugs and enjoys sharing what she knows with others.