Cathy Stephans, Red Barn Rugs Workshop @
Nola’s Studio House
5230 Elizabeth Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110
314-640-6344
www.nolahooks.com
Friday, October 31, 9:00-4:00
Saturday, November 1, 9:00-4:00
Sunday, November 2, 9:00-4:00
Cost $250.00 – Includes instruction, lunch, snacks, beverages. Registration: Full payment is required at the time of registration. If you need to cancel, 100% of your money will be refunded if your spot can be filled, providing there is a full class one month prior to class. There will be no refund less than 30 days from the class.
BIO :
Cathy Stephan, owner of Red Barn Rugs out of central Wisconsin, has been
teaching all ends of the rug hooking spectrum for 10 years, and has hooked 18
years. She works with mostly textures and has a great love of primitives from
animals, florals, geometrics, reproductions all the way to sepia faces with
wide or fine-cut, wide-cut shading and hooking paintings from the masters. She
has many original pattern designs and has done many personalized designs over
the years. She and her husband live on a rural farm with some of their 6 sons
still at home, along with a large menagerie of animals from chickens to goats
to horses, that give subject matter to designs. She teaches at the farm studio
and workshops throughout the central states.
Workshop description:
I will be coming for a 3 day workshop that is an open class, you may work on a
pattern of your choice. I have long been fascinated with symbols common in our
daily lives and what they tell us and what we are telling others by the symbols
we choose in our rugs. When you see a pineapple in a hooked rug, you think
Welcome ! But did you know that the merchant ship captains brought back
pineapples from their long voyages, impaled them on their fence posts to let
the townspeople know that they were back from the sea and ready to receive
visitors anxious to hear the tales of his journey and see the treasures of
plants, perhaps ivory and textiles from other lands few of them would ever see?
I have many tales to tell of the symbols all around us. I am able to color
plan, dye wools and help you achieve a beautiful rug. It need not be a rug full
of symbols, yet in nearly everything we hook, there are things we can know
about the common symbols we see daily.