A Wonderful Class with Katie Hartner !

 A few weeks ago Katie Hartner came to Hudson , New York . Betsy Reed had her Wonderful Holiday Hook In . Before the Hook In Katie taught a fabulous class to a nice group of women . She asked us all to choose a design to hook a chair pad in a Magdelina style . She was going to teach about Values . We all brought in a one pound bag of assorted worms . We dumped them all on our table ....our whole table was   a wonderful mess of colors piled high , for all of us to share. 

She started out talking about how colors can change . She said warm colors advance , cool colors recede. She talked about making accents in your hooking . Use different widths of wool , small pieces , hook your strips sideways , add yarn and other fabrics. She told us to be careful with solids , they can stop the action of movement . Choose your background colors first , then the colors of your motif.  Learn to train your eye to see the values by squinting at your piece or take a black & white photo. It was fascinating . She had several of her own rugs we could examine and it was just amazing all the little bits of colors thru all of her pieces. They just blended together beautifully . 

This was my very first real class and I learned so much . Lots of great tips and different ways she binds her hooked pieces. We all learned a lot from her . She was so easy to talk to and had a great sense of humor. I felt as though I knew her forever. 

I chose the Dog pattern to hook . I have to say I did a lot of reverse hooking  ! I may still do more tweaking . I have been so busy lately I have not been able to pull a loop until today . 

I would highly recommend taking a class from her , she was so interesting . Her patterns and rugs she hooked were just beautiful . I wish I had more pictures to share . If you check out Betsy's Hook In  on Face Book she had great pictures of our class and her really fun Hook In .