Pendleton Shirts for Sale

Good Morning
If any of you are interested in buying Pendleton shirts, washed, a few minor moth holes on some, email me at: pcn12jm@yahoo.com  for photos. ($10 each) It would help if you let me know what colors you needed.

Happy hooking today,
Julianne

Off The Grid

Sometimes the urge to do something quite different comes over me and I can't resist. A while back a hooker came to our group and shared with us a piece she had worked on a rice bag. One finds it very difficult to throw out those wonderful plastic rice bags (usually the 10-25lb size) because they are soooo useful and usually quite decorative if you like rice bags.

Anyway, this hooker was from Virginia by way of Paris and I was immediately taken by the opportunity to use some of my rice bag stash. She did not mention that hooking thru a rice bag is an invitation to carpel tunnel, but determination won out. and the result of my efforts:



Rice Bag Recycled
Make The Earth Happy, Recycle

I even managed to use some 1940s buttons from the huge button stash (hard to throw out a button) and some fringe on the bottom.

Have any of you visiting this page tried a project more or less off the "grid"? If so please email me your efforts and I would be happy to post it if you want to share.

Back to the frame
Julianne


From A Leslie Tartan Shirt

The Pendleton plaid shirt this chair pad was made from only needed the addition of solid black and red and an ombre for the contrasting lines.

The fascination in designing this was making a plaid from a plaid. If you want to try doing this, accurate marking of lines and some color planning is necessary. I placed the Scotti first and designed around him.
Happy Hooking,
Julianne

Back Home In Vermont

Four days of travel from Florida and glad to see even a coating of snow on the ground. It was rather hot leaving Florida. The Strawberry hookers have said goodbye to most of the snowbirds and are settling down for the long hot summer. Sorry to hear about Lena.

As soon as I get the wool studio in order I will be posting some more pieces worked with recycled wool. Hope you are all happily hooking.

Recycling On St Thomas

Not too long ago we visited St. Thomas Island and found a thriving craft market located down from the pier, along the beach. In one of the small booths a young woman was hooking a rug with what looked like scraps from many pieces of clothing. At her feet was a basket of her finished rugs for sale.

The photo shows the backing which looks to be some sort of recycled bag. I have used it in the kitchen and washed it in the washing machine. Since it was hooked leaving many "vacations" quite a few of the strips pulled out but were easily worked back in.

The woman was quite proud of her work and asked if I wanted to take a photo of her with the rug. Of course--provenance is everything--now if I could only find that photo!

Still More Bling

This is a pin Darcy designed to teach on March 19 to the Strawberry Hookers at The North Branch library in Lakeland. They meet at 9:30 am and Darcy has made kits with each pin individualized.

More Wooly Bling

Joyce, past president of the the Strawberry Rug Hookers for 8 years and a certified Pearl McGown teacher, designed a name tag pin for herself using some mixed media. The hook is a combination pin head/stained dowel hooked on linen. More bling to be posted later.

Bling for Rug Hookers

When you attend workshops, rug shows, or regular hooker gatherings, there is usually a proliferation of bling of the pin variety. The Strawberry Hookers of Lakeland FL had an exhibit at the local library and pins were well represented along with rugs, chair pads, pillows and santas. Usually worn on their aprons, the pins are usually made of scraps from projects hopefully finished.

President Linda 1 (there are 2 Lindas in the group and possibly a 3rd Linda will be joining the group), proudly displayed an array of wooly bling.

Since I enjoy not throwing anything out and finding new uses for scraps, Linda's pins offer new possibilities for the growing "too good to throw out pile" accumulating in the wool studio.

Hooking with recycled wool

  Unbelievable, but Florida thrift stores are a good source of old Pendleton shirts and skirts. You would think that moving to Florida, northerners would have tossed the winter clothes before setting off to the sunny south.
  If you do find that prefect shirt or skirt, take it apart and wash it in a cold water wash with detergent. You can dry the wool pieces on the gentle cycle in a drier. That old Pendleton fabric holds up very well and makes good rug wool.
  If you find a good selection of shirts you may wish to work a sampler of how the wool will look worked as in the chair pad for Kerry below:

  I am making stair treads for our back stairs and have made a number of sampler chair pads with the intention of seeing how the various Pendleton plaids work up. Kerry is our labradoodle always with her tongue hanging our waiting for a treat. Chair pad samplers are useful and a work up quickly.

Musings from a rug hooker

 Why does one start a 12 foot hooked runner? Why? Because one has more than 12 feet of hall and bags and bags of wool. The idea seemed like a good one. Design something that is repetive, not too involved, and get going. So, I thought a foot a week would be a modest plan towards completion.
  Today I am looking at the 3 feet finished so far in (5 weeks) and thinking 12 feet is way long. Besides, it is getting heavy.

  However, on the plus side it is using up bags of wool. I hook and think of all the other hookers who have taken on large rugs. Did we all start thinking it would be easy and fast?
  Determination and color selection is keeping me going. That and the bags of wool still to be used. A large portion of the wool I am using is recycled Pendelton shirts and skirts. The photo doesn't really show the patterns the textures create. The rest of the wool is my hand dyed pieces and some ombre from Dorr.
  It would be interesting to see other very long hall runners done by you out there. I seldom see one at workshops or shows.
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