Jane Green's Art

Ocean City Workshop

 This was the beautiful view out my window at Ocean City's Delmarva Workshop.  It was a fabulous class. Below are some of the wonderful rugs that were being created. Elissa Crouch was working on Hydrangeas, Mildred Joyce had the huge proddy sunflower.  This was a Dianne Kelly design. Tassee Mariani is still working on my close up rug of gladiolas. It is coming along beautifully. She is doing most of it in a 1" ripped strip.   

FUN Teaching Pictorial Rugs in St Louis

Here are some of the pictures from my St. Louis class. It was a great week and the rugs were terrific. Kathy Meentemyer hosted the workshop. Kathy, like myself travels all over the United States teaching. Many of the students in this workshop were her St. Louis students.  Kathy and me on the right and Pat Seliga and Jeanette on the left. Janet in the orange shirt  hooking a wonderful Irish cottage. Donna in the green hooking a scene from St. Bart. Thank you all!!!!

Jasmine's Butterfly Garden- One Day Workshop

Saturday, October 17 from 10-4   Maryland Hall for the Arts,  Annapolis. Join me for a one day workshop creating a cottage garden out of wool. yarn, and anything else we can find! This is a New Earth Design pattern called Jasmine's Butterfly Garden.  It is small --about 14"x 12."   The area behind the birdhouse is hooked with my artist wool . The wool is "Monet's   Garden and available  on my web site--www.rugandwool.com.    Many of my green wools  have lots of added colors. It is important to have variety and move away from flat green expanses of grass! The direction of our hooking should  move diagonally, horizontally, and vertically. The change in my strokes separates the various parts of the garden.  More close ups to follow.

 

The techniques taught in this class will be in my new book coming out soon!  Pre-orders are available through Amazon Books... Hooked Pictorial Rugs!!!!

The Jamestown Rug Hookers

I really enjoyed teaching in Smithfield, Virginia this last weekend. There were some great rug hookers creating gorgeous rugs. Here are a few of them.

This is Linda Stewart. She designed her own wide cut floral wall hanging of a single peony and it was absolutely gorgeous. If you click on the picture you'll see the center is prodded with yellow and hot orange colors. I can't wait to see the finished work of art!

On the right is Jean Knowlton. Jean organized the weekend and did a fabulous job. She is hooking a design by Claire Murray but in a traditional manner with woolen fabric strips.

This final picture is a rug hooked by Judy Williams. If you look very closely you will see water lilies floating under the bridge. The lily is pixelated and the leaves are done as baby proddy shapes.  If you don't understand this, buy my new book, Hooked Pictorial Rugs available in October. Amazon has it up as a pre-order right now!

Picture of the class at Podikory Yacht Club

 This is a group picture of my class at the local yacht club. We had lots of fun. Scroll down to see some of the projects started in this class.

Great class

Ginny Fan worked on an exquisite fine cut Iris rug. She had 8 values for all the flowers. We fingered and cross-swatched all week!  I expect this rug will not be a UFO!

Great Class

Sue Green from the eastern shore designed her own wall-hanging. This is heavily prodded and it was gorgeous. I can't wait to see the finished piece.

Great Class

This is the new "Close-Up Design of Gladiolas. It is available on my web site www.rugandwool.com. Tassee Mariani is hooking it in gorgeous purples and red-violets surrounded by a light background.

Great Class at the Podikory Yacht Club!

Mary Lou Bleakley was working on a very difficult  three cut wall hanging of an incredible garden she photographed when traveling in South America. We had fun planting roses and foxgloves in wool. I got her to pixelate!!!!

Great Class at the Podikory Yacht Club in Annapolis

This is Pam Brune working on one of my new "Close-up" designs of poppies and daisies!   She  chose peach poppies and a blue-violet background. This rug is fast and I think Pam will be finished in a few weeks!   The rug is about 52" by 48"