Latest projects

Joan's free-form woven basket, based on Jomon pottery

Gladys is weaving into hessian

Janet's embroidered magpies

Lucille has nearly finished the final sleeve

And finally - an actual hooked project -

Hooked by Ruth

July meeting

The weather wasn't totally sunny, but the sprinkle of rain soon passed. We sat in the garden with our projects and the time passed very pleasantly. Margaret took some photos of people hard at work -

Jeroo and Ruth

Lucille, Sandra, Joan

Janet

 Jeroo's project is coming along well - she uses yarn -

Margaret's "Jawlensky head" needs only a bit more yellow at one side -

Janet's "Scream"

Finished at last! Munch's "Scream" reinterpreted by Janet Beck.

A Room with a View

We all enjoyed meeting at Craft Central yesterday afternoon... the sun shone so the windows were open and we carried on rug hooking....

Join us if you wish - details on this blog...

Jill

"Girl with Poppy Fascinator"

Another face worked on at the January workshop, "Girl with Poppy Fascinator" by Ruth Robinson, who writes:

"Girl with Poppy Fascinator" came from a collage done at Diane Cox and Sue Dove’s Artful Rugs workshop

in Penzance last year and started out as a large rag rug on hessian. After the workshop, finding the scale too large, I started again on a much smaller version, working with a punch needle.

We spent a whole day in Sue’s studio playing with glue and coloured paper pieces torn from magazines,

initially making abstract collages (a new experience for most of us and very liberating!), before working on another collage each which would be the inspiration for the rag rugs we would be working on during the workshop and, as it turned out, for many months after!

"Barefoot Noble" by Jeroo Roy

 "In war ravaged Rawanda," reads the label on the back, "a young injured boy, clothed in tatters, wanted to appear dignified. Wearing shoes meant dignity to him - so he painted shoes on his bare feet - to keep his dignity."

From the series "Children under Siege".

Lucille's rugs

Designed and hooked by Lucille Kumar

Designed and hooked by Lucille Kumar

Designed and hooked by Lucille Kumar

Hooked Jewellery

I've not done much rug hooking lately as I've been busy studying for an Art History degree...however I just found these two remaining Necklets which were exhibited at The Knitting and Stitching Show awhile back ..I made them using a rug hooking technique! 

It is such a beautiful day I took this photo whilst out in my garden a few minutes ago....Happy April Everyone....Jill

www.jilltextileart.com

"Changing"

"Changing", size 14" x 20", is by new member Jeroo Roy. She started and finished it between meetings!

She says, "I am an artist and my medium has always been paint brushes and papers and canvas. But due to eye problem, further enhanced by effects of 'Stop Smoking' pills, I had not touched a paint brush for more then a year. But last September when I was in Canada, my friend Helen Dyer who now lives in New Brunswick, took me to Deanne Fitzpatrick’s shop in Nova Scotia and it was there it occurred to me and I can paint pictures through rug hooking."

Her website is www.jerooroy.com.

Janet's Hooked Cushion Cover

This beautiful hooked piece of artwork was created by Janet K  - thanks for sharing it with us all at our meeting this afternoon at Craft Central in Clerkenwell, London. (January 11th 2014)

Our meeting place is just beyond St John's  Archway.

Jill

Insoles

These were very quick to hook - I was excited at the prospect of having woolly warmth inside my well-worn sheepskin slippers.

The full story is at margaret-cooter.blogspot.co.uk/...further-hooking-adventures. Next - more slippers, entirely hooked - does anyone have a pattern?

What we're working on

Lucille's rug - almost done!

Gladys's cushion cover - yes, that's definitely a butterfly amid the flowers

Ruth keeps changing her mind on the colours

Janet K's motif comes from the 1854 Grammar of Ornament

Joan's latest chair cushion

Sarah's new project

Jill's small pieces - with her pile of kantha projects in the background

Janet B's "scream"

Margaret's chair pad

Sandra, apologies for omitting to photograph your project!

It was great to see everyone at Hooked-in-London on Saturday - so many different projects being 'hooked' or 'progged' and one finished article = Sarah's Speed Shuttle Rug...

Thank you for bringing it along to the meeting so we could all see it - beautifully made and finished. Enjoy your rug Sarah.

Jill

Rosettes

Tiny rosettes for making into brooches or adding to bags etc...each one hooked in silk and sheer fabrics. 

Happy Hooking - Jill

Designed and hooked by Jill Izzard

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL RUG HOOKERS EVERYWHERE....

Today, at our meeting at Craft Central,  Janet K created these wonderful corsages from scraps of wool, exotic fabrics and ribbon. They are  beautiful and I am sure the recipients will be delighted to receive them ....

The Thames

Janet has completed her hooked 'chair pad' based on The Thames and made from scraps of quilting cotton fabrics... it's wonderful!

...best wishes with your new design Janet.
Jill

The Thames

Today we held our April meeting at Craft Central. With nine members in attendance, and Jocelyn a visitor from Cumbria, it was a lively meeting with each of us working on a completely different project.

I caught sight of the reverse side of Janet B's intended chair pad so had to take a photo. I think you'll agree that The River Thames flows beautifully in this original artwork.

This is Janet's first piece of rug hooking and certainly deserves to be viewed in our blog. Janet is also an expert quilter and often uses left over cotton quilting fabric within her rug hooking to good effect.

A photo of the chair pad will be posted when it is completed.

Happy Easter everyone and...

Happy Hooking/Prodding/Progging and NeedlePunching too.

Jill

Seat Pad by Joan West

Joan's first rag rug is now finished!

And yet another chicken...

Designed and hooked by Janet Knechtel

And another great addition to the International Chicken Fest!