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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Surprising opportunity for you?

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Marjorie Duizer's Peace on Earth Are you free for a week during June, the 16 to the 20th to be precise? There is a wonderful opp...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Colour Knowledge is Primo in Rug Hooking

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You can see why we need to learn more about colour to help us achieve our goals in rug hooking. So tricky! You might find my onli...
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Monday, April 7, 2014

JJ You old bastard! You thought you had me beat

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 It is April and I've just solved a problem in my January Journal Rug that I wasn't willing to move to solve. It meant I had to ...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Tickling My Fancy

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This rug - what a great idea and a new twist on our old ideas! Colourfully spring fresh, an ogee and using up scraps, a powerful triumvirat...
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Friday, March 28, 2014

Hot from the Pot! Cayenne - It's a formula!

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These are the Pantone spring colours I'm replicating in the kitchen this week. Cayenne, the 4th from the right is a beautif...
Monday, March 10, 2014

There's a fly in my house

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Yes a live buzzing fly and that can only mean SPRING. It's time to blossom This is the rug I learned to dye on. I still lov...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Making New Friends! Uses for Yarn in Rug Hooking

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A study rug I punched with yarns of all sort from ribbon to sock, bulky weight to fine. I'd like to return to this subject again fo...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

5 things that will make you a better rug hooker

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Use the following as required, expect to see blossoming in one or two minutes: Look Don't rely on instruction or the object of your h...
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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Making Stuff

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Yup I'm still doing it... my Jan. Journal. I'm dogged if nothing else.  I really like seeing photos of my rugs in progress t...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Pin Keep Week

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This week we created pin cushions as part of our weekly lesson on the Welcome Mat . We want to keep our minds open and ideas flowing and ta...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

January Journal Rugs from The Mat

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Some journalists have completed their wonderful rugs. This wonderful portrait with embroidered scrappy insets  is the work of Diane...
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Hooking Olympics

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http://jamesdjulia.com/auctions See these beautiful turn of the century hooked rings? I love the way the striped background plays the...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

The Free Online Class on The Welcome Mat starts today!

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We want you to join us in our annual online class. This year we will hook the Spirit Owl.  Tell your friends the fantastic news, an interact...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

The Start of Something Beautiful

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I love to solve problems. One of the basic difficulties we have as dyers? There is no comparison charts or help for getting similar colou...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

So Busy Hooking

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Hi! I've been busy hooking my January Journal,  In a Word. Here is the progress so far!  A word a day with some fun thrown in. ...
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Saturday, January 4, 2014

the hat that ate the hind end off the year

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This is what I was making every day all through the last week in December. Fit for yon queen. Aunty looks pretty happy. ...
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Dyeing Glowing Colours - A video tutorial

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Please share this video with all your wool dyeing and rug hooking friends
Thursday, January 2, 2014

January Journal Time - In a Word - Wanna Play?

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Many of us love words almost as much as we love wool. This year in our wonderful Welcome Mat tradition, The January Journal study, we are...

WTFSSMTWT Making

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Frankly I spent all this time making one dang hat. In sock yarn with a needle that passes for a crochet hook and it is still not done. I...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Monday and Tuesday Making

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Monday I took some expensive clothes that had some fatal flaws in them and were 1.00 a piece and recreated them into new garments or resize...
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Wanda
Wiarton, On, Canada
I created The Welcome Mat and author the dyeing column in RHM for rug hookers to find new ways to bloom in the garden of life. Seed, bloom, withered stalk, I"ll tend them all!
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