A great turnout last evening for the hook-in and boy were we noisy! Everyone was charged with news of one sort or another. One new grandma and one waiting on number five, maybe as early as that evening, both were hooking rugs for their babies. Grandma's are wonderful! Here's an update on Pam's piece but Lorraine's is top secret until the little bundle arrives.
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  |  Charlene is going gang busters with her Stained Glass triptych. She's fresh from the rug school experience. It will be fun to watch all three designs evolve and where she will go with her colour plan. Rick, saturated colour is making this unique design a stunner. I feel like I'm inside a grand church looking up at majestic stained glass windows on a sunny day. I see this rug framed or displayed as a centerpiece for a dining room table. She has dyed the wool, cut it and taped it as it comes off the machine to achieve the stained glass look. |
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Barbara is whipping her last completed project, the pattern was a gift from her daughter for Christmas 2013. Mary is displaying her latest geometric. She sure has a way with blocks of colour. This is a design offered in the book Scrappy Rugs. Below Shelley put the finishing touches on her latest. Sweet!
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Anne is working out her colour plan for Alice. It will have a lovely Victorian feel, soft and timeless! Ginny surprised us by saying she is hooking two of these designs back to back. I told her to bring them both next time for a side by side picture. The red is hot!
A couple of goofy funsters came by just to hang. Both Sue and Linda Ruth recently finished rugs and haven't started anything new yet.
Last evening felt like my birthday. First the funsters, Sue and Linda Ruth took me out to dinner at the Knot Pub. Lorraine brought in a couple of yard sale finds....a delightful sheep cookie mold and this fun "Ewe'r Amazing" apron. Awwwhhh! And Barbara gave me a bumper sticker that reads "HOOKERS DO IT ON A RUG". I feel so special!
 | Remember these? The dreaded Girl Guide cookies? Charlene brought them in for a hook-in treat. In my day, as a dedicated pack member, I sold a lot of these slices of heaven. I wasted my entire allowance on some of the inventory. Probably ate as many as I sold. Later in life I've been on the buying side and have packed a few boxes away, probably a contributor to the muffin top bulging out over my jeans. I prefer the vanilla ones but hey, whatever's going. I could smell them in every corner of the room. Their perfume followed me like a stalker, every movement of air sent a direct hit to my nostrils, clawing away at my will power, beckoning me into diabetic coma. I knew I had to be strong because once a crumb got past my lips I would have done a face plant in the box. I finally covered them with a piece of Mary's wool....out of smell, out of mind. Foods that evoke memories are the hardest to ignore. I'm only flesh and bone you know, not steel. |
Tip of the Day
When incorporating fibers like curly mohair in your rugs, sometimes they are stringy and get pulled out by the grippers when moving the rug around on your frame. Use masking tape to cover the back side of the area that could be compromised.
Cover the area like a band-aid. Put a thin material such as waxed paper on top of the curly mohair (don't stick the tape directly to it), cut pieces of tape longer than the area to cover and the ends will adhere to the back of the hooked wool strips around it. The tape's adhesive is mild so will pull off easily when the rug is completed.
Cover the area like a band-aid. Put a thin material such as waxed paper on top of the curly mohair (don't stick the tape directly to it), cut pieces of tape longer than the area to cover and the ends will adhere to the back of the hooked wool strips around it. The tape's adhesive is mild so will pull off easily when the rug is completed.
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