tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15805228221494227652024-03-05T15:10:36.462-04:00The Quoddy Loopersmaureenmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465490219165383769noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580522822149422765.post-66052445978759050592014-07-23T22:55:00.000-03:002014-07-23T22:55:43.183-03:00scrappy mats X 2At tonight's hooking in St. Andrews there was 3. Sandra, Susan and me.<br />
Susan was finishing up a chair pad that was a nice combination of colours. Golds, I'd say. We thought about whether when you finished it was when you finished hooking or when it was completed. I guess either one works.<br />
Sandra was starting a new hit or miss mat. She has a scale basket full of worms. This new mat has a heart in every other block and four small blocks in the alternate block. She is hooking the small blocks in outline with bright colours.<br />
I am still working on the American Quilt pattern by Carolyn Buttolph and using up Wool of the Month. This is the second rug of this pattern that I have made and I can't decide how to hook it. I keep changing my mind as to what wool to put where so I spend a lot of time just looking at it all. Very enjoyable evening.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973981341527187903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580522822149422765.post-60779403682467391902014-07-17T03:31:00.001-03:002014-07-17T08:11:44.838-03:00Another Rainy WednesdayIt seems that for months and months Wednesday nights have been bad for driving. Tonight was no exception with rain at times heavy and fog. I noticed a Mama Turkey with several babies on the way to St. Andrews last Sunday evening. She was one big Mama. I would hate to run into her on the road.<br />
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Normally I don't mind driving but I went to Calais looking for plastic knives strong enough to cut steak this morning and tomorrow I have to go to St. John. I hope what I bought works out for my husband's Trap Shoot on Saturday. (I tried them on Shake and Bake chicken and they cut pretty good.) I have also been volunteered to make chocolate chip cookies and Caesar Salad.<br />
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Add to that list my quilting group is hosting a quilt show on Friday and Saturday in St. George and I am trying to put the binding on the last of 3 scrappy quilts. I said in passing to my husband, "Who would have imagined that there was that much fabric in my sewing room?" and he raised his hand. I had to laugh at that.<br />
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I can't sleep tonight because I started to think just as soon as I got into bed. I started to read and I found a slip of paper in the book that said, <i>"Give me coffee to change the things I can change and wine to accept the things I can't."</i> I don't know who wrote it but it would make a great rug. That is when I decided to get up and turn the computer on and look at Rug Hooking Daily and Facebook Rug Group. Then I checked to see if I had won the lottery but I still don't know because I would have to get up and find the ticket to check it.<br />
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Next week I hope to get back to the hooking. With the scraps all sewed together I now have room for wool and I can sort it into colour groups. I should take a road trip and look at wool and rugs. I think Nova Scotia is a good place for that and I may just get up some morning and go. Weather and turkeys permitting.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973981341527187903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580522822149422765.post-27350029468490881752014-07-10T12:09:00.000-03:002014-07-10T12:09:00.039-03:00Knit East 2015<br />
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Last year KnitEast was held at the Algonquin, the W. C. O'Neill Arena Complex and also Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Center in St. Andrews. Knitting classes were held at the Algonquin and the Arena hosted vendors with a marvelous selection of yarns and knitted goods.<br />
A rug hooking workshop with Celia Charlton on Landscapes was held at Sunbury Shores. <br />
With about 9 participants we had lots of one on one time with Celia who was challenged with a diverse choice of landscapes. There was a close-up of a tree, a light house, a mountain, a house and fields, and everything in-between.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973981341527187903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580522822149422765.post-26934322845084253052014-06-30T17:20:00.001-03:002014-06-30T17:28:53.602-03:00Sandra Lewis' halloween rug. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973981341527187903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580522822149422765.post-74203769612574531092014-06-29T16:20:00.000-03:002014-07-02T13:21:00.054-03:00New Brunswick Covered Bridge ProjectThe New Brunswick Rug Hookers have been very interested and supportive of the Hooked Rug Museum of North America in Nova Scotia and have been willing to hook and donate rugs. These wonderful people have hooked on group rugs and individual rugs. As is very apparent by the piece linked below they are very proud to have their mats displayed.<br />
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New Brunswick rug hookers are on the Saint John Community TV, just click the link below to view.<br />
This is the local Bell Aliant " Studio Art Show" that features the New Brunswick Covered Bridge Exhibit, hanging in the Hooked Rug Museum of North America. (Erin) <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973981341527187903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580522822149422765.post-72882945657947694752014-06-27T11:02:00.001-03:002014-06-27T11:02:08.914-03:00New Brunswick Covered Bridge ProjectSeveral members answered the call by Pat Neill to hook rugs depicting New Brunswick Covered Bridges. Some hooked bridges from their local area and others hooked bridges that represented something to them.<br />
The rugs have been donated to the Rug Hooking Museum of North America in Nova Scotia.<br />
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Canal Bridge is located on the St. George end of the Quoddy Loop. This is the bridge hooked by the Quoddy Loopers Group. The Canal Bridge suffered some damage in the last year or so and we are happy to say that it has been repaired and is still a treat to drive through. <br />
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Sandra Lewis chose the McGuire Bridge that is located in Elmsville. It is located in a northern direction from St. Andrews as is the Digdequash McCann Bridge hooked by Maureen McIlwan. Both of these bridges span the Digdequash River and are still standing.<br />
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I chose to hook the Linton Stream Bridge which is located in Bonny River. As I child I spent time at my Aunt and Uncle's house which was located right beside the bridge. <br />
As a child my Mother earned money in the winter by shoveling snow into the bridge so the sleighs could travel through. Sadly this bridge has been gone for a long time.<br />
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The Quoddy Loopers group hooked the rug, " Cottage Craft Shop", (above) to donate to the Ross Memorial Museum for their special show honouring <span style="text-align: center;">Helen Grace Mowat and the Making of the Cottage Craft 9014 - 2014. </span></div>
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The Ross Memorial Museum is a personal decorative arts collection displayed in a fine early 19th-century house in the National Historic District of St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Memorial_Museum">Wikipedia</a><br />
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Raffle Tickets for the donated Cottage Craft Shop rug are on sale now. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973981341527187903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580522822149422765.post-66235770205389394142014-02-27T22:01:00.000-04:002014-06-26T14:17:29.302-03:00Last night I went to Wednesday night hooking Everyone was very surprised to see 10 people together after a long winter of cold temperatures and bad roads. It seemed that every Wednesday night I settled down and stayed home because of one or the other and I am sure that many others did as well. With the time change coming up in a week or two there will be more light and travel will be easier. <br />
Mary Jones, Susan Waddy and I each brought new books to pass around and Sandra Lewis brought a huge bag of recycled wool to share. Sandra has started spring cleaning.<br />
<br />For Christmas I bought myself the book "Hooked Rug Storyteller, The Art of Heather Ritchie" by Lesley Mary Close. I have read it from cover to cover and it is a wonderful book full of pictures (many close up), stories and tips.<br />
I have finished 4 rugs since last fall. Now I am making a scrap quilt so that I can get rid of the fabric and have room for wool. Honest, I am only buying what I need from now on and I don't need more fabric. It's getting difficult to find a place to store everything. With 2 hook-ins just a month away I can't imagine not buying new wool so I may have to start cleaning my sewing room soon. <br />
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A Big Boned Girl designed by Deanne Fitzpatrick. I made this Yoga Person for my friend Nancy and gave it to her for Christmas. <br />
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Another rug given as a Christmas present, to my brother-in-law, was a scrappy mat made with wool-of-the-month from Sande Gunning's shop River Gallery and Textiles.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973981341527187903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580522822149422765.post-28371797039048995012014-02-21T20:30:00.000-04:002014-02-21T20:30:22.205-04:00Well, It's a new start for the Quoddy Looper Blog.My ability to write and to hook are certainly not the same caliber as Maureen's but I am willing to give it a go. Even though the blog seemed to come to a stand still the Quoddy Loopers have not.<br />
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Weekly hooking and yearly hook-ins have kept us in touch with fellow hookers and solitary time with our mats and wool and hooks have kept us adding to our collections. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973981341527187903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580522822149422765.post-53660302014823277662014-02-13T18:22:00.001-04:002014-02-13T18:22:30.939-04:00Impossible! Where did the time go?Things have been moving along, but posts to the blog are not keeping pace. Apologies for that!
Quoddy Loopers continue to meet weekly, but sadly, I am no longer there. A dream job came up for my husband and we moved, leaving idyllic St Andrews and the whole marvelous east coast for central Canada. We are now condo dwellers, in the midst of Toronto. On the plus side, I've already found a congenial group to hook with. But then, aren't all rughooking groups friendly? They are, in my experience. I joined the Upper Toronto Group and may get to the Agincourt group as well. For now, I am still settling the astonishly vast amount of wool I've amassed over the last several years. It was squirreled away in various spots in our little New Brunswick house, but is now overflowing the shelves and nearly out the door of the little solarium that is to be my new rug/sewing room (the +1 of our 2+1 condo); lovely eastern light with a full wall of windows, but tiny. Maybe this week I will make more progress.
The rug that consumed me at the end of my NB stint was the St Andrews mat I'd begun five or so years ago. Specifically with no deadline. However, as they say, life had other plans for me, and a push was on to get it finished before I left town. The Loopers pulled together and we had a few group sessions, where everyone worked on the mat together, around a quilt frame, finishing the lettering and rest of the border.<br />
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And soon, another Quoddy Looper will take over the reins of the blog - yay! Louise has kindly agreed to take it on. I do apologize for the long time between posts! I'll leave you with one last mat of mine, hooked in the summer. See the green grass behind it? It's coming back, I'm sure of it....<br />
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On the left, Hortense and on the right, unfortunately, I don't have a name for her. Both are very expressive, with some details merely suggested. The viewer supplies the rest.<br />
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Several of the Quoddy Loopers attended the hook-in of the Carnegie Rug Hookers in that building. Last year, the welcome gift for each visitor was a small pattern on burlap with a colour photo of the skylight. Several have done the pattern and all have taken artistic liberties; it's interesting to see each interpretation. Hella's has a luminous coppery-bronze sort of feeling. Hella's mats are done in 3 cut and yarn, with her usual meticulousness (10" sq).<br />
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Another exquisite small piece of Hella's on the right - a floral sampler. It may have been designed as a chair pad, but it will not likely be sat on! (14" across)<br />
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Below is Hella's version of the <a href="http://www.rug-aid.org/rug-rave.html">Rug-Rave</a> mat for Rug-Aid.Rug-Rave mats are 18.5"W x 14"H.<br />
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And below, Karen's version of the same design by Heather Ritchie, begun in November, 2009, to raise funds for Rug Aid, which is a charity helping the blind in Gambia to make some money through hooking rugs.<br />
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The final mat today is also Sandra's, a traditional 'hit-or-miss' design that approximates basketry, and is done with all the leftover woolly worms that all rughookers pile up over time. These 'scrappy' geometrics are quick to work on, especially if one follows the tradition of no colour plan at all, but rather allowing a natural eruption of whatever colour comes next to hand. (approx 35" x 22")<br />
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Just bring your hooking and a recent mat (or more) to share for show and tell, if you like, and PLEASE do let us know you are coming, so we won't run out of food!<br />
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We'll wind up around 3:30, after a day of hooking, looking, shopping (www.RiverGallery.ca), eating and visiting. It's always fun<br />
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Please RSVP here or email Mary at mcbjones (at) rogers dot com<br />
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<h1 style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Cindi Gay is a beautiful rughooker - well, I've never met her but her hand hooked rugs are beautiful and she acts like a beautiful person; ergo... </span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">One of my absolute favourite rugs ever is her <b style="color: #0c343d;"><a href="http://cindigayrughooking.com/blog/gallery-2/?pid=62"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Village of Pemberville</span></a></b> (an historic town in Ohio where she lives... the love shines through). She teaches, dyes, sells wool, patterns, etc, blogs and hooks and most recently started a new website to share other rughooking websites and blogs. She calls it "<b><a href="http://www.rughookingwebsites.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Your guide to rug hooking on the internet</span></a></b>" and was kind enough to ask to post this blog on her new site. </span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">So, if you have a rughooking site, please contact Cindi, who says:</span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h1><div style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; text-align: center;"><b>Do you have a rug hooking website you want to get noticed? </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">For a limited time, get your site added to this listing for no cost</span>. </b></div><div style="color: #741b47; text-align: center;"><b><span class="aligncenter notice"><a href="http://www.rughookingwebsites.com/get-listed/">Get Listed</a></span></b></div><h1 style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span><br />
<h1 style="line-height: 14pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If you are not familiar with Cindi's gorgeous rugs, visit <a href="http://cindigayrughooking.com/" target="_blank">cindigayrughooking.com </a>(more on Cindi's rugs, below, including her ongoing blog topic of a really </span>big <span style="font-weight: normal;">rug she's been working on for a few years). </span></span></h1><div class="meta"></div><div class="meta">Cindi says, "I started my website in 2001 with beginners in mind. Since I had just started hooking, I was very aware about how hard it was to find information.</div><div class="entry-content"><a href="http://www.rughookingwebsites.com/cindi-gay-rug-hooking/cindigayrughooking-jack-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-44" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-44" height="237" src="http://www.rughookingwebsites.com/wp-content/uploads/cindigayrughooking-jack.jpg" title="cindigayrughooking-jack" width="400" /></a><br />
"My current project (and probably for the next few years) is a room sized rug. I started posting about the rug from the first day, October 1, 2007. Read the articles to follow along as I put the pattern on the backing, start hooking and then struggle with the borders as I design them as I go.<br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sandra's sister Heather drew out a vintage garage and truck scene, then </span><span style="font-size: small;">Sandra hooked away on </span><span style="font-size: small;">"Nolan's Rug" </span><span style="font-size: small;">at her usual speed - fast forward - and had it ready for Christmas. No mystery about origin - with a Canadian flag flying over the scene!</span></div><div class="ii gt" id=":dx" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div id=":19d"><div bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">It measures a hefty 42" X 24.5", mostly #4 cut, with the sky in #6. Sandra dyes much of her own wool.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</tbody></table>Quoddy Loopers, not surprisingly, decorate their chosen room with rugs, mats and the varied paraphernalia of rughooking. Wools of all kinds, burlap or linen patterns in different stages of completion, hooks, magazines and books... rugs on the floor, mats on the walls, furniture and screen. Sprinkle with an array of Christmas ornaments, stockings and a couple of little trees, and the room is ready. Just add demonstrators working on a rug or two throughout the long weekend, and wait for the questions. Children are invariably fascinated by all the rugs and we set them a few questions - how many Santas can you find? And snowmen? Birds? <br />
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<div id="refHTML">Judith Dallegret posted a mystery rug on her blog "Just go hook it", with a lovely runner - partially completed - using a clamshell border and a beautifully conceived and hooked hit-or-miss central motif. It is an excellent example of using a traditional design or motif - in this case, two quilt patters, clamshell and feathers, to make a terrific geometric mat. "Scrappy" rugs like this are a great way to use up those spare woolly worms we all end up with, or tiny scraps of special wools from other projects, although scrappy is not really the right adjective for this one. Delish!</div><br />
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Religious affiliation aside, this is a vocal <i>tour de force</i>. The acoustics aren't bad, either!<br />
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The Quoddy Loopers of St Andrews NB held their 4th annual Hurricane Hook-in Nov 6th--always the 1st Saturday of November, so please mark your calendars for next year (Nov 5th, 2011).<br />
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There were over 40 people in attendance and it would seem a good time was had by all. Unfortunately, I had to miss as a family visit coincided. Thanks to Sandra L for taking these photos so I didn't feel totally left out!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three of Deanne Fitzpatrick's wonderful women... not sure who they are hooked by. It's neat to see so many of these women and how different dress/hair/background colours give individual character to each one. Two mats by (I believe) Mary G of Fredericton: a crisp Celtic and monochromatic self-portrait. The different styles available to us are legion; this shows three distinct and delightful takes on rughooking.</td></tr>
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Sande and David Gunning of <a href="http://rivergallery.ca/cart/page.html?chapter=0&id=2">River Gallery.ca</a> brought their roving shop to St Andrews (from Glenwood, NB, not far from Saint John and GrandBay/Westfield). As well as supplying rughookers with great wools, patterns, notions, etc, they bring some delicious batik and other quilting cottons every year, as the Guild does a lot of quilting to support the Church. River Gallery generously donated several yards of luscious wool to add to our door prizes and raffle baskets, which is much appreciated, helping everyone to have a wonderful day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two generous gift baskets were raffled off, with funds going to the church where we meet every Wednesday, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, missing the very occasional stormy or holiday Wednesday. Our group is smaller these days, with members having different priorities in life, but it's good to see some out at the hook-in (minus hurricane) and wonderful that even those who could not be present contributed so we would have a fun gift for each guest as well as these baskets to raffle. Kimm M of Fredericton HRHG won the big basket. Carol-Ann N, Gwen H, Sandra S, David G and Rhonda B were our other winners of door prizes. We hope those who come infrequently, continue to come and that those faces we haven't seen in awhile will return to hook with us!</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">RHD is the free rughooking forum started by <a href="http://thewoolworks.blogspot.com/">Heidi Wulfraat of London-Wul</a> for Atlantic Canadian wool addicts, but now the membership is global.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /></div><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /><br />
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Sandra hooked this hit-or-miss mat to use up odds and ends of woolly worms, but she says that they seem to be multiplying, as her grab bag never gets any less full! The basketwork effect of the scrappy mat is a great simple and effective geometric design.<br />
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Now Louise has finished a "Big Boned Girl" (pattern is Deanne Fitzpatrick's, with dashes of fun, as most of her mats are). I think I missed getting Louise's winter hooked pillow up, but we'll have snow before too many more weeks go by, I imagine! This 'fat-bottomed boy' is also one of Deanne's designs. I think there was some novelty wool used to add a little sparkle.<br />
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This 4.5 x 5ft rug has been on the go for three years, and I keep it at the church where the Quoddy Loopers meet every Wednesday, so it is only worked on in small hunks of time (6:30-8:30pm, year round). Others of our group have taken turns working on it and I hope to have more working on the borders when the Algonquin Hotel and the top water/sky is finished; perhaps this fall will see it done. I do miss the odd week, either by not being able to make it to the group or by hooking on another mat that has a deadline. This one is purely pleasure, so it will be done when it's done.<br />
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This week was the first time I took it off the rolling frame, so we have only seen it in sections since it went on the frame in, I think, fall of 2007 (possibly summer '07). Other members have also donated wool for the project, as well as time, which is much appreciated.<br />
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The rug is mostly 100% wool, both fabric and yarn, with the odd dash of novelty yarn for sparkle, on primitive linen, with cuts ranging from #3 up to 3/4" hand-torn strips. Much of the wool is as-is fabric; a great deal is purpose dyed, especially the greens and blues.<br />
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