Day 7 - Crazy Quilt Exploration

Leftovers from the pot holder created a little runner.

I'm really enjoying this wool quilting.

Patricia Truesdale joins in the challenge!

Day 6 Hot pad

The Back

The Front

Today inspired by the arrival of Quilting Arts magazine, I made a wild and wooly untrue pot holder!

I kinda like it.

Day 5 Only 1/2 alive

I could only manage to make a selvedge ball from the edge of a rapunzel today.

The best laid plans....

Day 4 -A creature from the blender

Ladies, gentlemen, this will be your first and I hope for you, the only opportunity to view the rare blue violet flying seal.

Things don't alway go right with the felting needles! It is good for a laugh!

Oh you want another view?

Sure.

Day 3 An Envelope

Today a dear person bought a silk scarf as a gift and wanted me to send it on the recipient.

I decided to fashion an envelope out of some special paper and silk to send it in. Don't worry I'll have a cover envelope. This is early in the day for me to get something made!!! If I do something else I'll post it as a bonus!

Are you seeing a dangerous pinky purple theme? I am...

Day 2 A subtle garland

For today's exercise in creativity I took some skinny sliver I had dyed that I despised. It has sat around in my studio for several a year, in a unkempt clump making a good job of annoying me. Today I grabbed it up and wrassled it down and finger knit me a garland. I have started decorations for the garland already. More on this later.

It's That Time Again!

Yes, it is December and it's time for the traditional make a thing a day for a month!

Luckily for me I just got a box of bounty in the mail! Thank you to my thoughtful and kind benefactor!

I'm all heart! A dry felted heart with hand spun yarn trim.

Silken Shibori

Lovely scarves are silk mostly with a rayon velvet one that is green. Silk takes our protein dyes in a duller way that wool, it is always interesting to see the results. Many of these have been dyed , adjusted , dyed , adjusted in another way and dyed one last time. It makes for wonderful layers of colour !

More Dye Class results

Alicia!

Diana!

Both are relatively new dyers, amazing - I'm as proud as a peacock!

Grape Vine Improvements

As you might know I started this little project which is a free class and pattern on the Welcome Mat for beginners or anyone who wished to take part. You can see it's simple version here I didn't want to start out too complicated.

Now as the next part of the lesson you can see the improvements which frankly are very easy to do and we could all benefit by giving our rugs a little go over to see if we can make more of a statement and make them more exciting to look at. They needn't be obvious, you just need to give a little gilding!

“Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded”

Mark Twain

More dye class Results

Lucy!

Cilla!

Lucy!

Carol!

WOW

Time WELL Spent

Last night I just vegged out on the couch with my feet up and my frame on my lap.

I didn't mean to but I finished this little beginner project we are doing on the Welcome Mat.

Now I'm going to add some more colour to the leaf... I wanted to show it done simply and then to show how easy it is to think differently about what we could do.

I hook the leaf going from vein out to the edge of the leaf on a 45˚ angle.

This makes it very easy to add in new an unexpected colour.

I hope you find some time for some contented hooking this week-end.

Stay tuned for enrichment with this project!

If you are making things you must understand not everything you do will be a masterpiece, nor need it be, sometimes it is just a pleasure.

W.K.

Wanderful Studio Dye Class WMWW

Here are some of the results from my very clever students in the online dye class. These sharing dyers agreed to show you their wool. They are kind as well as clever.

Shari does a dark one

Shari exploded with the theory on day one.

Donna makes an amazing arrary

Lois Ann makes an amazing summer filled 1/2 yd.

She tries it again! Wow!

Claire makes a terrific wonderland of wool.

I'm so proud I could bust. Saturday is the last day you can join class if you are interested.

Loving The Order

Some order is a good thing!

What do you think

What do you think of a rug with occasional no pile?

I'm seriously considering finishing my Vogue rug without having all the "holes" filled.

I steamed it with them filled, didn't like the colour , painted it with dye, ( to watch me look at the video on the Mat) still didn't like the colour and removed it. I like those areas of linen showing...

I bet you are hoping this mood passes.

I feel like doing even more don'ts and that is very hard to resist.

Home Invasion of Rugs!

Just like last week, a knock came to the door and there stood two rugs wrapped up like a wooly buritto. Once again Pam got them wrassled into shape and strewn where they would fit.

Is Thursday not my lucky, lucky day? I'd say so.

If you like older rugs please go www.rugsontime.ca Search for the style you like. I'm really in love with this one right now.

It is a treasure trove, no shipping, no tax, 30 day return, what more could you ask? I'm a happy girl looking at my treasures. I love the wabi sabi of them.

Views of Hook-in

Hooking the free pattern for the beginner class on The Mat, making it simple notice how I how from the vein out in a 45˚ angle. Colourful veins are holding lines only.

Marie hooks a cute sparkly stocking

Pam's cat paw

Joanne hooks her amazing cardinal rug!!!

Separated from her tree Erin makes a star with stripes ornament!

LInda uses baby yarn to create a snowflake design

It was so cold here Lorraine's snowman needed a jacket

Dianne's cute snowman also needed a coat, btw, it snowed all day long here! WHAT???!!

Barbie got this very cute snowman done!

Jane hooks her daughter on the red shores of PEI, her third rug... can you believe it?