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Sorry folks - theHumm was accidentally sent the wrong dates for the Hank and Lily concert at the MERA Schoolhouse in McDonald’s Corners. It is NOT taking place on Thursday, August 7 (as reported in the August issue) — in fact, it took place on August 1. Sorry about the mix-up!
by Sally Hansen
How sweet it is when we finally find what we’ve been searching for our whole lives. It’s not surprising that Loretta Bluher-Moore didn’t know that she wanted to be a hooker. It isn’t something that immediately springs to mind, even when you know you love fabric art. Almost every town of any respectable size offers resources for knitters, quilters, crocheters, cross-stitchers and other aficionados of textile arts. Although she had tried all of these, it took a chance encounter with a scarce rug hooking kit purchased in New Hampshire to get Loretta started down her true path to artistic fulfillment.
Loretta’s face lit up like a golfer who’s just shot a hole-in-one when she described the night she attended her first rug hooking class thirteen years ago. She vividly remembers the hour of torture she endured as her Montreal instructor Tony Latham initiated the class in the history of traditional rug hooking (as opposed to latch hooking) before letting them touch a piece of wool. “My students are hooking within the first ten minutes!” she assures me. She credits Latham with teaching her how to dye wool, and apologizes in retrospect for “dyeing his entire kitchen” in the process. Loretta loves creating exactly the right hues to execute her original designs. “When you can control the colours, it opens up so many possibilities!”
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