Misc. Chit Chat

Found a few antique rugs on the internet which interested me, will share those, also a couple rugs I've hooked and a couple Granny updates too.  So it will be a diverse post.  

First with some antique rugs ~ Basket of Flowers was hooked early 20th century measuring 27 x 35.

I like the design and if I hooked it would make the hit and miss border at an angle like Vintage Hearts which I hooked below,  

or Posies and Stars antique adaptation I hooked except with a few less red wool strips in the border.

A Canadian hooked rug named Thistle measures 23 x 38.  This is the front and at first I thought the flower on the left was faded.

But when looking at the back it was obvious a different color than red was used.  Note also the rug was self-bound by folding over the burlap foundation and hooked thru all layers.

Hooked mid 20th century the Love Birds rug would make a great Valentine themed rug and even wedding rug for a family member.

A Boy and Girl playing with their dog.  Appears the boy is wearing a sailor suit, it measures 17 x 32.5 and was hooked early 20th century.

Now for a couple Granny Hook-along updates ~ Betsy (Heavens to Betsy) sent an update and cannot believe she has accomplished this much with having a business and hooking on another rug with friends each week.  Hers is so much more interesting than mine; she has added wings to the birds, different values in the dresses, cat and interesting choice of wool for the basket.  But guess I shouldn't be surprised at her talent as she IS a rug hooking teacher for goodness sake. 

Kim (My Field of Dreams) is making great progress on her background and will have the fun part of the border to do next.  By now she is probably already working on that border.

Betsy said she and a few other gals are hooking a Jane Stickle quilt design and told her I hooked one in 2011.  A group of us from Yahoo Rughookers bought the book "Dear Jane" to choose the quilt designs.  I chose patterns which I was sure could be hooked in no less than #8.

Below is how I designed my Jane Stickle rug.

Snow is almost all melted with the rain this evening and very mild temperatures it will probably be all gone tomorrow.  However just might end up with that recurring lake behind the house.

Better get to my hooking...ta ta.

Saundra

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Wish I'd Kept A Journal

You have seen my comment 'channeling Magdalena' on a few blog posts when working on one of her designs.  Now wish I'd kept notes on my thoughts/questions while hooking her rugs.  One such recent question I'd ask .... is that meant to be a hooked paw print on the Great Granddaughter's Rug.

It wouldn't be the first time someone wrote a journal to the creator of an antique textile, as there is such a book called "Dear Jane".

Brenda Manges Papadakis kept a journal of her thoughts/questions as she was replicating the 1863 quilt made by Jane A. Stickle.  The book was a good read in addition to getting the pattern pieces which are offered inside the book.

In 2011 a few of us on Rughookers Yahoo took a challenge to make our own Jane Stickle hooked rug.  It could be any size and could take a little creative license.  There were no prizes as this was a group challenge with a deadline date and those who finished in the allotted time had their rugs published in a section of Rug Hooking Magazine.  This was my version which is hooked in #8 cut.

More rain in the forecast today, as if we haven't had enough already.  Happy hooking, quilting or whatever floats your boat.

Saundra

More Rugs I Hooked

A few more pieces I've hooked.... here is a Karen Kahle tea cozy design which was hooked 2011.  It was photographed beside my dear departed grandfather's (Joseph H. Green, Sr.) weighing scale. 

Here is Polly Minick's Two Chicken design which I drew for her and subsequently hooked myself.

A few years ago there was a Jane Stickle quilt challenge on Yahoo Rughookers.  Several of the rugs were also posted in an issue of Rug Hooking Magazine.  This was my rug from that challenge.

As it is election time here is another mat I hooked and is a design by Robin of Bird in Hand.  

Below are three small pouch bags I hooked for Polly Minick as samples. The center one.... The Michigan Mitt I gifted to my friend Kris Miller who lives in Michigan.  So when you see her using it at camps you'll know where it came from.

When I was doing shows I would also hook purses as they were very popular, particularly the cat ones.  Here is one.

And another; don't know how many cat purses sold but there were many.  Happily I don't do shows any longer, too long in the tooth to do that.

Isn't this cornucopia mat wonderful placed on my antique school desk? It is a design by Maggie Bonanomi. 

OH, speaking of cats...... This curled cat design was (I think) the very first hooked piece sold and was totally shocked with a buy.  Wish I could remember what the woman paid but trust me ~ it was minimal because I had no clue as to what hooked rugs went for.  

True that my style was still in the baby stages and still learning.  But to be paid anything for my 'fun' was totally awesome.  Now I understand the work involved and the cost would be different.

It is the count down to my last rug camp of the year.  Sadly there are only 3 per year which I attend.  So will hopefully do another post tomorrow.

Saundra

Log Cabin Rug Back on the Frame

It seems like a decade since I worked on this rug, but it has only been a couple months.  Meanwhile there were quite a few projects I got completed while it was resting.   I'd completed a couple swap mats, hooked a snowman gift for a Christmas gift, also the E.S. Frost Sheep rug with birds and flowers, hooked and assembled the eyeglass cases and most recently was the completion of the Jane Stickle quilt rug more commonly known on Rughookers Yahoo as the Sincerely Jane Challenge rug.  (whew, gasp for breath).

When working on the log cabin rug previously I'd mentioned it was a pattern offered in a book by Barbara Carroll titled American Folk Art Rug Hooking. 

The pattern design is July Cabin but I took some creative license and tweaked it to suit me.  I changed the direction of the smoke, made my trees a little differently and made big folky leaves instead of flags and think I added more stars in different locations. 

So I'm a little anxious to finish this one up but there is something else lingering in the wings that remains unfinished, so it isn't as though I'm completely caught up.  But it sure is a good feeling to get this close.

However, the  madness will begin again starting May when I go to the wonderful Barb Carroll at Woolley Fox, then in September it will be back to beautiful Cape May, NJ, then in November will sign up for Lucille Festa once again in Ocean City, MD.