Oxford Level 3 Course - Regular Oxford Punch needle Instructor Designed and Fulfilled
Course Fee: $180
Prerequisite: Minimum of one full length Level 2 Regular Oxford Punch Needle course, or equivalent experience and confidence in basic punch needle skills
Size: 10 students maximum
Length: 8 hours total Divided into four 2 hour sessions.
Date/time: January 8, 15, 22, 29 at 6:30 ET
Learn to design and punch a special ‘Tea Cozy with a Story’ with Oxford Instructor Christine Johnson.
For many years, I’ve been making tea cozies because I love tea and punch needle rug hooking is well suited to making these functional and beautiful objects. In this course I will teach you how to design a tea cozy with a story that reflects and celebrates the person for whom it is intended. These meaningful tea cozies make excellent gifts for someone special- or maybe you want to create a special one just for you.
You’ll learn to design a 9” by 13” half-moon tea cozy with two sides, to choose a color palette that enhances your design, and to transfer your design onto your monk's cloth. Then students will be shown the necessary techniques to punch both sides, and how to hem and neatly finish your project. The aim is to finish the piece together but if that’s not possible, written instructions for finishing will be provided.
A digital download of the half-moon foundation to design on is included in your registration.
All of our live online courses are delivered through Zoom, so you can join in the fun from anywhere you have internet available!
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 legislation, and 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.
There is no predetermined kit for this course.
To make the project students will require:
- Two 24” pieces of monks cloth #10 regular punch needle
- Gripper frame- ideally 16” to 18” recommended
- Scissors
Plus the following:
Blank paper, Pencil, drawing/ coloring supplies, Black Permanent Marker, Suitable yarn for their project (details will be provided by instructor), Thread and Hemming needle (for sewing your project together).
Learn to design and punch a special ‘Tea Cozy with a Story’ with Oxford Instructor Christine Johnson.
For many years, I’ve been making tea cozies because I love tea and punch needle rug hooking is well suited to making these functional and beautiful objects. In this course I will teach you how to design a tea cozy with a story that reflects and celebrates the person for whom it is intended. These meaningful tea cozies make excellent gifts for someone special- or maybe you want to create a special one just for you.
You’ll learn to design a 9” by 13” half-moon tea cozy with two sides, to choose a color palette that enhances your design, and to transfer your design onto your monk's cloth. Then students will be shown the necessary techniques to punch both sides, and how to hem and neatly finish your project. The aim is to finish the piece together but if that’s not possible, written instructions for finishing will be provided.
A digital download of the half-moon foundation to design on is included in your registration.
All of our live online courses are delivered through Zoom, so you can join in the fun from anywhere you have internet available!
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 legislation, and 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.
Christine Johnson is a Certified Oxford Instructor and has been a fiber and mixed media artist for over 30 years. She teaches fiber arts and exhibits her work at the Treehouse Art Studio and Gallery in Calabogie, Ontario. In April 2024, she won the Multi-cut category at the Ontario Hooking Craft Guild annual for the piece Fancy Stitches, designed by Simone Vojvodin. She hosts Fibre Art Tuesdays, a weekly community gathering at the studio. From her early career as an arts journalist and administrator, she has experience as a curator, in particular, the exhibition “Picking Up the Pieces: Quilted Stories” at A Space Gallery and Harbourfront Gallery in Toronto.
In December 2016, she participated in a group show at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte. Her passion is to expand the use of fiber, especially wool, in the contemporary art world. She lives on the beautiful Madawaska River in the Ottawa Valley with her husband, James and dog, Coco.
