"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.

A snail-y rug

Who says rugs have to be symmetrical? - this is "Circus Snails" by Lori Lupe Pelish -

Lori is also a considerable quilter. See more of her rugs in the Rug Gallery on her website.

Hooking, internationally

TIGHR - The International Guild of Handhooking Rugmakers - began in 1994 in London, England, with a group of international friends who decided to establish a world wide group involved in rugmaking.

Meetings have been held in Nova Scotia, Canada 1997; Rhode Island, United States 2000; Toronto, Canada 2003; Tenby, Wales 2006; Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 2009; and Strathalbyn, South  Australia 2012 - next up is Victoria, Canada in October 2015.

The website has links that you might wish to explore (this blog is one of them!).

Sue Dove

I just found this lovely piece of rug hooking via Facebook....

 

Thanks for allowing me to share this Sue....Enjoy February - Jill

New link in the sidebar

"Hooked by Design" is based in Skipton, North Yorkshire. Its fresh and pleasing designs and kits can be seen at stitching shows (the pic shows the display at Harrogate in November) as well as its online shop.

Cindy Irwin

Our rug hooking friend Deb Burcin has helped set up a new website for Cindy Irwin.....

www.cindyirwinrughooking.weebly.com  she thought you might like to visit this site...Jill

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

Enjoy the Festive Season

 

            'Happy Hooking'  Rug Hookers everywhere.....

 

Enjoy the Festive Season.

 

Jill

Janet's cushion cover

Design based on a "folk art" greeting card.

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?

Laszlo - The Weavers Lion

...another rug hooked by Deb Burcin - titled Laszlo and entered into an exhibition at The National Museum of the American  Coverlet in Pennsylvania, USA in 2012.

Deb explained  the design of the above rug was created by Barbara Carroll. Deb also told me the exhibition consisted of 150 hooked rugs which hung alongside all the antique 'Coverlets'.

Apparently Laszlo, a Lion design, was always woven into the corner of a coverlet by the weaver. In the other corners the name of the weaver and  owner/s.

Deb was honoured to be part of this amazing exhibition inspired by antique American Coverlets.

Jill

This is a Tote in progress - hooked by Deb Burcin, USA and designed by Susan Quicksall from Holly Hill Designs. Deb will send a photo of the finished item in a week or two.

I rather like the abstract manner in which all the creatures are placed. Deb is also going to embellish the Tote even further with embroidery...so watch this space.

Jill

Hooked in Maine

"Doris" hangs, under glass (hence the reflection) in the library at Northeast Harbour, Maine. Found at velmabolyard.blogspot.com.

Reflections - now a cushion!

Here is Clare's cushion now completed...

 

 

such beautiful colours and will make a nice soft seat for Fred. Thanks for sharing your photo Clare.

 

Jill

Seen at Festival of Quilts

Hooked wall hanging "Crop Circle" by Jenni Stuart-Anderson, seen among all the quilted and stitched textiles. Jenni also had a stand and taught a workshop there - http://www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk/Exhibitor/Jenni-Stuart-Anderson

Reflections

 

Another lovely rug hooked by Clare Hutchinson....title 'Reflections'. It will be made into a cushion very soon....its lovely Clare and well worth sharing with fellow rug hookers. Thank you.

Jill

The Blues

.                                               ..and Clare has now spent the day dyeing
                                                                  Shades of Blue....

lovely pure wool ready for hooking....

 

Thanks for sharing this photo Clare.

Dyeing....Shades of Red....

 

A lovely dyeing session by my friend Clare....

this wool will be cut into strips and eventually

made into a rug....thanks for sharing this photo Clare...

Jill

Rugging workshops at Knitting & Stitching show

The show is 10-13 October at Alexandra Palace, London (info at theknittingandstitchingshow.com/london) - and a couple of rugging workshops are offered -

Proddy/Proggy - Upcycled Rag Rugging!
Jenni Stuart-Anderson
From the nineteenth century our forbears
used mill waste or old clothes to make
warm rugs for the bed and floor. Learn
how to push small fabric pieces through
hessian backing with half a clothes peg, like
granny used to, then use a ‘bodger’ rug tool
to achieve the same shaggy effect more quickly. You will be able to
use this traditional technique, Progging, to make rag rugs and other
projects of your own design later, at home. Granny called it Proddy,
now it’s called Upcycling! (Can be addictive. Suitable for any level
including children aged 7+

Rag Rugging
Make Do and Mend
You will learn how to make a fabulous rag rug using recycled and
vintage fabrics. You will learn the various techniques of this ancient
craft and come away with a sample, the knowledge and confidence
to get creating! This is a gorgeous way to brighten up your home with
your own handmade treasures. Suitable for any level.

More information is in the leaflet at http://www.theknittingandstitchingshow.com/london/files/ap_pdf_of_workshops.pdf

Rag rugs in Morocco

They're called boucherouite and they're woven, rather than hooked - but it's that same thrifty spirit and love of making beautiful things at work. There's an article about them (with more photos) at http://handeyemagazine.com/content/mushmina.