This is an informal, monthly open workshop that welcomes (first time) students to wool appliqué or (Diane’s ongoing students) to rug hooking.
***First time wool appliqué students are required to have a basic knowledge of simple hand-sewing & embroidery stitches.
Diane will show you how to use either freezer paper or Heat ‘n Bond fusible to make your pattern templates for your wool appliqué projects. In addition, she will help you improve your stitching, show you her favorite tips & tricks, help problem solve, teach finishing techniques, and see you to the end of a project or help you start a new one.
**Wool Appliqué students, be sure to ask for Diane’s “Basic Sewing Supply List” prior to class so you can come prepared with all the essentials!
*** This club is also designed for ongoing Rug Hooking students who have participated in one of Diane’s previous Beginning Rug Hooking classes. The only exception that will be made is if Diane has seen your previous work and determines you have basic knowledge and are hooking at an intermediate level of proficiency.
Diane will be on hand to encourage continued progress on your current rug projects and see you to completion. She will help you problem solve, share more of her many "tips & tricks", demonstrate some FUN & CREATIVE stitching and finishing techniques, as well as help with color planning smaller projects (if time allows).
**With a larger rug project, you may be required to set up a private color planning session at another time that is convenient with both Diane's and the shop's schedule, at which time an extra charge can be discussed.
NOTE: Diane will have her wool strip cutting machine on hand for cutting your strips.
Important: Students must contact Diane prior to club meeting to let her know what projects you will be working on especially if you’re at a cross-roads, ready to finish a project, or ready to start a new one. This will help Diane make recommendations for what each student should prepare at home, and how to come ready for club. Diane’s contact info will be given upon registration.
Monthly on Sundays - you must register for each date attending
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Time: 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Cost per date: $28.00 (credit card) plus materials
$25.00 (cash/check) plus materials
To pay by cash/check, please email the studio.
Minimum 4 students; maximum 15 students
Wool Arts Club for Wool Appliquers & Rug Hookers with Diane Daniels (October 26)
Diane Daniels was born and raised in Southern California and comes from a long line of Italian seamstresses who migrated to the US from Sicily.
In the late 1980’s she lived in New England while her husband was finishing his post doctorate studies. During that time, she saw a Traditional Rug Hooking and wool dyeing demonstration at the League of New Hampshire Craftsman Show up at Mt. Sunapee. She was literally “hooked” and soon on a quest to learn everything there was about this amazing fiber art from some of the best teachers around the country! After her husband completed his studies, they found themselves back in California for his new job in biotech but dreamed about returning to New England some day. In 2006, that dream came true; she currently resides in Harvard, MA with her husband of 39 years along with their 2 cats.
Since 1998, Diane has taught a wide variety of classes throughout Southern California and currently here in Massachusetts; including rug hooking, pincushions/make-do’s, penny rugs, needle felting and pretty much anything involving wool. From the many years of teaching, she has fine tuned her skills and has many “tips & tricks” for helping students improve on their various techniques in all aspects of these mediums.
She is a passionate wool fabric dyer and has provided custom dyed wool fabric collections to shops and students alike. Her passion started back in her fine art classes in college where she studied painting with water color, oils and acrylics. After college she explored basking weaving, spinning, off-loom weaving and dyeing her own fibers at that time with natural dyes.
The colors that change seasonally and the wild life that abounds here in New England has served as constant inspiration for the hand-dyed woolens and fiber art she creates today, most notably in her hand-hooked rug making she enjoys the most.
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