Margaret Hall: How Does Your Garden Grow?

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Margaret Hall, "December," 2021

mixed media, Margaret Hall wearing her creation.Photograph by Dean Ward of High View Photo

First Friday Red Deer Opening: February 4 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm

Crowns, Stetsons, boaters, and yes, even hoodies, hats can express our personalities – nowhere more charmingly than in this Margaret Hall exhibit of 48 hats on display in the Kiwanis Gallery.

Following the purchase of new hat wooden hat blocks (in the fall of 2019), local fibre artist Margaret Hall decided to complete a year’s project of making four felted hats a month. Each month she created a resist or pattern to felt over as a basis for every hat she made and blocked that month, with 48 stunning results!

By March of 2020, as the pandemic surged, she found herself linking her theme to her garden, neighbourhood, and Red Deer’s parks. Seasonal changes, with only a slight nod to the pandemic, became her motivation. The hats follow not only the seasons but the colour palette and creativity of an artist who delves far beyond a purely commonplace look at hats to the fanciful, quirky, whimsical, and downright charming.