Be Creative with Creative Stitches
Joyce Krueger
3-Day Class
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Tuesday – Thursday, August 11, 2026 – August 13, 2026
8:30 am – 3:30 pm
$400.00
Description
Students will create a sampler using Creative Stitches, which are an adaptation of needlepoint and crewel stitches. In class, students will learn how to hook the creative stitches and discuss how to use them in other rug hooking projects. These stitches add interest to your hooked pieces by using one motif or in the background. Students can make a small quilt coaster, build houses or add birds and fruit to their class project. Once they learn the stitches their creative mind will find many ways to use the Creative Stitches in their rug hooking.
More Information
$400/$380 Sauder Village Member
Skill level: Intermediate
Supply fee: $30 payable to the instructor at the beginning of class. Fee covers the cost of the patterns.
Student supplies: Hook, frame, wool, cutter, scissors.
Bio
Joyce Krueger:
Joyce Krueger is an Accredited McGown Teacher, former Director of the Southern McGown Teachers’ Workshop and past secretary of ATHA. Currently she is a member of the McGown Guild, ATHA, and the Cream City Rug Hooking Guild. She has taught nationally and internationally at rug schools, at private rug groups and currently hosts classes in her home studio in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Joyce’s articles about various creative aspects of rug hooking have been published in Rug Hooking Magazine, the ATHA Newsletter and the McGown Newsletter. Her work has been featured on the covers of Rug Hooking Magazine and ATHA Newsletter. Her rugs have been in Celebrations and several rug hooking books, and they have received awards at Sauder Village Rug Hooking Week, the Wisconsin State Fair, and was she was inducted into the Celebration Hall of Fame in 2019.
Joyce has been hooking rugs since 1976 and been teaching since 1984, She teaches all aspects of rug hooking, both fine and wide cuts, with a shaded or a primitive look. Joyce enjoys teaching original designs and helps students with their own designs and techniques. She also enjoys personalizing commercial patterns. She works with student’s wool, helps with color planning, suggesting dye formulas or she will bring all the wool needed for a student’s project.
