ELEANOR B'S FRIENDSHIP RUG

As you will recall, we decided to hook a friendship rug for our 90-year-old friend, Eleanor B.  The rug is progressing quite nicely.  

In order to keep everyone up-to-date on its progress, we have put a list of  'who has hooked what' on our Pages link which can be found to the right of this post.  Just click on the 'Friendship Rug' link and you will be taken to the list.

We hope to bring a smile to Eleanor's face when we present the rug to her later this year.  Anyone interested in hooking a square can contact Rhonda.

NATIONAL STITCH-IN-PUBLIC DAY

The Embroiderers' Association of Canada, Inc.  has proclaimed Friday, September 27th, 2013, the National Stitch-in-Public Day. Notice in the above advertisement that rug hooking is included.
This Friday, why not take your rug-hooking project to your local shopping mall, library or other public place and promote our craft while you make new friends.

Perhaps next year, we can plan in advance to participate in this national event.  For more information, click on the Stitch-in-Public link.

HOOKING WITH PLAIDS

On Monday, October 7, 2013, at 11 a.m., Sheila B is giving her workshop on Hooking with Plaids.  Come learn how to take one piece of plaid fabric and separate it into light, medium and dark values and use a coordinating colour for the outline of you design.  Using a #4 - #6 cut, you can choose to hook either a 5" square design called "Spring Tulip" or a 9 1/2" square design called "Tumbling Blocks'.

Material Required:

-Hook, hoop or frame, rug hooking scissors, sewing scissors, rug hooking cutter
- plaid wool fabric.  (recycled shirts, skirts, etc.)
-a coordinating solid colour wool fabric.


In preparation for this workshop, please put one of the following two patterns on your choice of backing material.  If you need help with this, please bring your backing to your hooking group and some one will surely assist you.

Here is a picture of each of the designs.

Tumbling Blocks

Spring Tulip

TO PRINT YOUR PATTERN

1. Choose the design that you wish to hook.
2. Look to the right of this post and you will see a heading "Pages".  Under this heading you will find a link to each of the above patterns.  
3. Click on the link for the pattern that you wish to use and you will see the actual, appropriately sized pattern.  
4. Print it and use it to put the design on your backing.

HERDING WORMS

Although Claire is relatively new to our rughooking group, she has quickly caught on to our philosophy of reusing and recycling.  Here is photo of her recycled veggie tray that she uses to organize and transport her worms.  

HERDING TURTLES

Many of our members are busy hooking a turtle pattern for the Brockville Thousand Islanders'  Christmas exchange project for 2013.  In the meantime, the St. Lawrence District Medical Centre asked for hooked donations in support of their fund raising efforts to expand their facility.  As a result, some members decided to hatch a few more hooked turtles to support the Centre's fundraising efforts.  

Herding turtles is easier than herding cats.  Here is a sample of our herd of turtles.

WHAT IS THIS???

As a rughooker, you never know what you might find in your washing machine.  Eleanor A's washing machine refused to drain so Doug went to work trying to find the cause of the problem. This is what he found.  

Eleanor had been washing some new wool in preparation for dyeing and it seems that this cord-like felted mass of fibre debris ended up wrapped around the blades of her washing machine's pump, jamming it up and preventing the water from draining.

We would normally expect to find fibre lint on our clothes dryer's lint trap, but we do not expect to find it clogging up the pump of our washing machine.  This is something to keep in mind the next time you wash your wool fabric.  But how can we prevent this from happening?  If you have a suggestion, please enter a comment on this post.

Well Done Gill

Today, 18 of us gathered to hear Gill's creative talk and discussion on Combining Hooking and Needlework.  Gill has the most creative brain and that was made clear to all of us who got to hear her talk and see her amazing creations.  A big thanks to Gill for sharing her talents with us.

One of Gill's Amazing Rugs