Natalie, Nancy and Louise make progress!

Nancy has been working on a Grenfell style mat, dyeing many of the nylons to order, and using some as-is. She's the first of our group to finish one of these alternate material mats - and she's done a great job! The Eskimo/Inuit fisher people are a traditional Grenfell subject as well... this pattern comes from Doris Norman. Luminous sky and colourful ice make this mat sing.

Natalie is working on her very first mat - Yo Yo Kitty from Yankee Peddler. Though she's not a cat lover, Natalie has given this woolly feline a sweet expression, and she's loving the yo-yos!

Louise, another of our more recent members, has just finished two mats and is working on an old [elderly?] burlap rug pattern that she inherited. On the left, the Covered Bridge, a Joan Moshimer pattern and her first mat, Erin McKenna's St John House, on the right. Lovely job on both!

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This traditional old pattern has the colours painted on the burlap, as was often done in the time before the cheap colour print options we have today. Also, Louise is finding the 'primitive' #8 cut a lot faster than the 3&4 cuts she used on her first two projects!

Lots of activity at the Quoddy Loopers this winter!