Kit Fee: $70, NOT included in class registration. Please bring cash/check to pay teacher directly. 

Kit includes:

• Beginner Rug Braiding - handout by Christine Manges

• Wool for braiding

• Braid-Aids

• Braid-Kin (lacing needle) (Bobkin)

• Braid Klamp or large clamp (to hold braid to table)

• Kilt Pin - 1 for holding a wool rolls - Tapestry needle - Blunt, for joining lacing thread

• Thread - Lacing thread

• Colored safety pins

• Safety pins - Large for holding braid end

• Safety pins - (3) Small for marking beginning and first turn

• T-pins or plastic headed pins - To mark increases

• Needle - Regular hand sewing needle

• Thread - To match wool - Waxed hand sewing thread

• Clothes pins

SUPPLY LIST: 

• Thimble, if you use one

• Pen/pencil for taking notes

• Fabric Scissors - Large and Small

• Optional - additional wools if someone wants to make an additional chair pad/rug

About the Artists:

Joyce Krueger has been creating braided rugs for 20 years and making hooked rugs for 51 years. She has taught rug braiding classes for approximately 15 years. Joyce teaches how to braid a rug or braiding around hooked rug. One of her rug hooked/braided rugs is featured in Combining Rug Hooking & Braiding published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd.