SESSION 2 TEACHERS
Kathy Spellacy, Lisa Chaloner, Ingrid Heironimus, and Diane Stoffel are our week 2 teachers this year. They are all excellent McGowan certified teachers and will be delighted to work with students on whatever they choose.
Although this is a National Guild School, any designer’s patterns are welcome to be hooked, including your own original designs. Our teachers will color plan and dye for you or provide whatever information you need if you wish to do some or all of your own dyeing. They are able to work with dyed, as is, or recycled wool. They will of course bring wool with them for use in the class.
Each of the rugs below was completed by the respective teacher.
MEET LISA CHALONER
Lisa Chaloner began hooking in 1991, studying for many years under Annie Spring, of Amesbury, Massachusetts. During that time, Lisa explored the use of color in rugs and developed a love for that aspect of the craft. She completed the McGown Teacher Certification process in 2009. Lisa has taught weekly and bi monthly private classes for over a decade, welcoming all hooking levels and skill abilities. She has also taught classes at the Northern McGown Teachers’ Workshop, Sauder Village Rug Week, and the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen/Nashua. In 2017, Lisa was the “Featured Hooking Artist” at the Deerfield Fair, Deerfield, NH. Lisa is a past president of the White Mountain Woolen Magic ATHA Guild in New Hampshire. She currently serves as director of the Northern McGown Teachers’ Workshop. Lisa has taken part in the Eye See You II Project in 2012 and the Tarot Card Exhibition, which opened in December of 2015.
Lisa offers an open class with an emphasis on the study and use of color in rugs. Each day, students will work to expand their understanding of color planning through a variety of activities. Don’t worry, they’re fun!
​MEET KATHY SPELLACY
Kathy has been hooking for about 23 years, she was originally self taught. Kathy resides in Eliot ME and owns Patsy Becker Designs located at the website WoolandGoods.com.
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She thoroughly enjoys teaching rug hooking, applique and Russian punch needle.
Kathy loves to teach primitives and antique reproductions as well as geometrics, Orientals and florals. She likes to use various mix cuts in the same pattern. She strives to help each student to create the rug they envisioned. Kathy has
a small lesson planned for each day of class to cover many rug hooking topics as well as any topics that her students request.
​MEET INGRID HIERONIMUS
Ingrid Hieronimus is the owner/operator of Ragg Tyme Studio in Mannheim (Kitchener), Ontario, Canada. Her studio is in her home and she has a large variety supplies and wools for traditional rug hooking as well as 99 different colours of yarn in 4 ply and 3 ply for punch needle rug hooking. She also enjoys combining punch hooking and traditional hooking in the same piece.
She is an Ontario Hooking Craft Guild certified teacher, a certified McGown teacher, has her certificate in Fibre Arts – Traditional Rug Hooking from St. Lawrence College in Brockville, Ontario, Canada, and is an Oxford Punch Needle Rug Hooking certified teacher.
She has been featured in Celebrations Rug Hooking and is internationally known for her teaching, dyeing and rug hooking. Seminars, workshops and individual lessons are conducted in her own studio as well as in classrooms across Canada, United States and England.
Ingrid also runs the Ragg Tyme School of Rug Hooking, which is held in May in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.
Ingrid is the author of three dye books – “Primary Fusion”, “Multiple Fusion Spots”, and “Primary Fusion Spots”. She has also written the “Special Effects Using Creative Stitches”. She enjoys creating new and exciting colours in the dye pot using only the three primaries and black.
The student may work on any design and cut they choose in class. A variety of techniques will be discussed and the student will be encouraged to challenge themselves on their project.
​MEET DIANNE STOFFEL
Diane teaches all over the country and back. She has an eye for detail and color. She works with each student to bring out the best of their ability. She teaches all widths from fine to wide cut.
