Name: Punching Mule Moccasins
Brand: ORHS
Price: 145.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Online Course

Oxford Level- Intermediate (Students only need to know basic punch needle skills)

Prerequisites: Level 2 course, or have basic punch needle skills

Course Fee: $145

Length: 6 hours total divided into 3- two hour sessions

Dates: February 24th; March 3rd; and March 10th, 2026

Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Eastern Time

Size: 15 Students

Instructor: Lil Gruntz

Learn how to create your very own pair of custom-made mule style moccasins, which are comfortable to wear and beautiful to look at! Oxford Instructor Lil Gruntz has reached into her Indigenous heritage to design this course which demonstrates how innovative punch needle rug hooking can be. She'll teach you a quick and easy way to design your custom fitting pattern, and how to make each pair unique by exploring a few different punching techniques.

The course also includes interesting insights into the word "moccasin," the Medicine Wheel, and Indigenous Colour meanings. Participants are encouraged, when possible, to use recycled materials and fibers from their personal stash to make their moccasins beautiful and cost-efficient. Lil will provide you with detailed notes as you complete this course so you can continue making mule-style moccasins in the future. They make great gifts for friends and loved ones!

ORHS classes are recorded as a courtesy to its students by the ORHS and its instructors, and the recording will be made available to course participants for 30 days after the course. This allows you to review the lesson, or to catch up should you miss a class.

By registering in the class you agree to this recording, and to follow privacy and confidentiality guidelines, to be respectful of the ORHS, the Instructors and your fellow classmates by not sharing, distributing or making available for viewing the recording to others in any way.

Total $ 145.00

There is no kit required for this class. Students will be taught how to design their own custom-fit pattern in class, and can provide their own materials using the list below.

For this project students will need:

Monk’s cloth foundation fabric
Oxford Punch Needle (#13 Fine or #10 Fine)
Gripper Frame- at least 14” x 14” is recommended
Paper to make your pattern with (this can be any paper you have on hand, i.e.. paper bag, recycled wrapping paper, newsprint, printer paper, waxed paper)
Pencil and eraser
Ruler (or measuring tape)
Scotch tape
Sharpie Permanent Marker
Violet Jane Fine Yarn, worsted weight yarn, thin t-shirt yarn or any fiber that can travel through the Fine Point Oxford Punch Needles and is washable
Light cardboard (i.e.. cereal box)
Quilt clips, binder clips or clothes pins (i.e.. something that will help you hold foundation together as you are constructing your moccasins)
Darning needle (or craft needle with large eye)
Scissors for cutting the monk's cloth and scissors for cutting yarn/wool
Scrap denim (optional- this will be explained during the first session)
Beads or old jewelry (optional-this will be explained during our first session)

Learn how to create your very own pair of custom-made mule style moccasins, which are comfortable to wear and beautiful to look at! Oxford Instructor Lil Gruntz has reached into her Indigenous heritage to design this course which demonstrates how innovative punch needle rug hooking can be. She'll teach you a quick and easy way to design your custom fitting pattern, and how to make each pair unique by exploring a few different punching techniques.

The course also includes interesting insights into the word "moccasin," the Medicine Wheel, and Indigenous Colour meanings. Participants are encouraged, when possible, to use recycled materials and fibers from their personal stash to make their moccasins beautiful and cost-efficient. Lil will provide you with detailed notes as you complete this course so you can continue making mule-style moccasins in the future. They make great gifts for friends and loved ones!

ORHS classes are recorded as a courtesy to its students by the ORHS and its instructors, and the recording will be made available to course participants for 30 days after the course. This allows you to review the lesson, or to catch up should you miss a class.

By registering in the class you agree to this recording, and to follow privacy and confidentiality guidelines, to be respectful of the ORHS, the Instructors and your fellow classmates by not sharing, distributing or making available for viewing the recording to others in any way.

Lil is an Oxford Certified Instructor, an Ontario Hooking Craft Guild Certified Teacher, and an Associate Teacher with the RHGNL. She was introduced by her mother, to both traditional rug hooking and rug punching when she was a child, along with a variety of other arts/crafts including weaving, beading, felting, tatting, crocheting, and knitting to name a few. Lil loves to incorporate all these art forms into her rug punching and hooking projects. She believes that the 'Sky's the limit', and enjoys teaching beginners, intermediate and advanced students, encouraging them to think outside the box. Lil enjoys teaching Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced students alike. Helping students learn how to incorporate other art forms into their punched and hooked pieces, and is enthusiastic about teaching a variety of courses including Three Dimensional, Functional, Wearable Art, Tartans and Beading. Lil is proud of her Indigenous heritage, and this shows in her series of courses called, "Come Walk a Mile in my Moccasins'', where she teaches you how to create various styles of moccasins and bags through punching and/or hooking and beading. Lil offers classes in person as well as virtually, reaching people across the globe and in all time zones. She is a member of RHGNL, RHGNS, OHCG, OPNIG and TIGHR.

Punching Mule Moccasins

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