Multi-Craftual

Today's Monday meeting was a celebration of all things "multi-craftual".  Many of the folks in our group do more than one crafty thing, and we gathered together to admire the work of these talented folk, and even to buy some of their wares.  This brain-child of our very own Christine featured:

- jewellery
- rug hooking (natch!)
- felting
- soap making
- wood products
- sewn bags
- quilting
- knitting
- appliqué
- spinning

One of Dora's quilts in progress

Pam brought along her Dollar Box of wool treasures

Anne's lovely bags

One of Martina's many great knitted projects

Lynda's gorgeous hooked stocking

Lynda's felted and hooked ornaments

Bev brought great soaps, jewellery and wood products

Rosemary's fantastic jewellery

Donna's quilted, felted and appliqué treasures

Ownership of this much-loved sweater transferred to Judy!

As well, there were several completed and in-progress rug hooking projects to ogle:

Several folks brought their Tom Thomson rugs to work on, and Brenda even managed to finish hers!

Internet Round up

Here is an assortment of things I’ve found online that cb of interest to folks who rughook and/or like fibre-related things:

This is a time-lapse video of an artist working on a very large quilted piece. An interesting process and a lovely finished piece!

Time Goes By - Produced and Directed by Teresa MacInnes and Kent Nason from Sea to Sea Productions

Here’s an interesting video on dyeing with Wilton’s cake decorating stuff. It has been done with yarn, but the same technique could easily be applied to fabric.
https://youtu.be/5WALORl2Spw

If you like photos of rugs, check out these 2 links to photos taken st TIGHR, in England this year,
 https://www.facebook.com/123343344431852/posts/1524130827686423/

https://www.facebook.com/123343344431852/posts/1522392907860215/

We all feel better when we do rug hooking, right?  Well here’s an article by a psychologist on the mental health benefits of rag rug making. Granted, it’s about weaving, but all of the points made apply equally well to rug hooking.
https://blogs.psychcentral.com/crafting/2018/10/5-ways-rag-rug-weaving-improves-mental-health/

Here’s an article about new fibres that are being developed from live organisms! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-environments-new-clothes-biodegradable-textiles-grown-from-live-organisms/

More photos. These are from Hooked in the Mountains XIX in Vermont. http://gmrhg.org/

A Walk in the Woods

This past Thursday we had a class with Carol Shewan of Willow Creek Rug Hooking.  We had asked for something "group of 7-ish", and she came up with a class dedicated to Tom Thomson, using 3 of his iconic paintings.

Here are Carol's interpretations of these works of art.  Each of the projects started in the class will look a bit different, due to our colour and fabric choices...but they will all be works of art in their very own right.

We had a full class and everyone learned lots!  There was even an opportunity to see how Carol dyes some of her fabrics.

Ohcg Facebook posts

I mentioned at our last monthly meeting that there’s a lot of good stuff available on the ohcg's Facebook page. Here’s a small sample of what’s out there:

- videos from Wanda Kerr’s dye studio: “ I'm excited to tell you I've just released over 40 videos on dyeing wool and rug hooking to my YouTube Channel today,
Please share this news with all your fellow hookers. Once scattered through out the rich and voluminous Welcome Mat , they are now all in one place for easier access.”

- this tour may be filled up by now, but it does sound interesting.  The link takes you to an interesting site showcasing Guatemalan rugs; “Learn to hook a rug the Maya way!!! Only 4 spaces left on our 2019 Rug Hooking Tour to Guatemala. The tour will run from February 15 – 24, 2019 and is designed for all skills levels, from beginner to accomplished rug hooker. Contact rughooking.guatemala@gmail.com for further information.”

- this is a great colour wheel calculator.....to help out with colour planning.

- check out this post from Australia about sauder village in Ohio!

- this is interesting.....about the Oxford punch needle. “Cornwall's Amy Oxford invented an ergonomic rug-hooking needle in 1995. Since then, she's been quietly running her business and teaching the age-old craft of rug hooking. But recently, business has been booming thanks to a little bit of internet magic: #oxfordpunchneedle started trending on Instagram. Click to read more.”
Here’s a video with the whole story.

.....ok....and that’s only what they’ve posted back to sept 14!