FLORIDA BOUND

Hi Everyone from sunny, warm? Florida??? well????

There is definitely no snow and there are rug hookers so it's all good!

Here are a few pics on what we are working on!! Hope you are all enjoying the new digs at Grace Church, speaking of which next Monday is our monthly already, WOW!! time flies, enjoy!!!

                                            This is by Chris a new rug hooker

                                          This beauty is a Carol Feeney pattern hooked by Nancy

                                                           and here's Nancy

                                                           we have ladies that do braided rugs!

                                                                    Regina 's

                                                                      Mamie our leader

                                                           Ann admiring Regina's work

Seeing Red and Other Wondrous Things

Unku with staggered and linear designs, 500 AD - 700 AD (Collection: MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima)

There is a new website that is gaining a lot of interest.  It's not specifically about rug hooking, but is about art and culture.  If you're like me and enjoy looking at interesting art works and galleries, etc. then you might be interested in perusing the site.  It's called Google Arts and Culture.  You can click here to go to the site.  If you have an iPad, you can go to the app store and download the app.

One of the feature articles today is on the colour red - a very interesting read!  Click here to get to the article.

You can read the articles presented on the site (they change daily), or you can search for a topic of interest, like specific artists, or style of painting/sculpture (like impressionism), or art gallery (and get a virtual tour of a celebrated museum!).   It needs a bit better Canadian content, but there are certainly US, European and Asian stuff well represented.  This could be a very useful site when you're doing research for a rug based on a specific style (like oriental rugs!).

Of course I couldn't resist searching on Hooked Rugs and got a great selection of rugs that are in the Washington Gallery of Art, along with a number of photographs from Life Magazine taken in the 50's of what looks to be a very large hook-in.  It doesn't say where this is, but you can clearly see rugs, cheticamp frames and even a dyeing demonstration.  Here is a small sampling of the photos.

Enjoy!

68 days to spring!

yes!  Can you believe it? There are only sixty eight days until the arrival of spring....it can’t come soon enough!

That was the theme behind a cake that Margaret Eindhoven brought to our inaugural meeting at Grace Church today. It was delicious, and a wonderful way for us to kick off our first meeting.

We have in a good-sized basement room at the church with good lighting and a small kitchen area. It should work out quite well for us.

If you’re available any Thursday, please join us at 440 King East from 9:30 to 11:30.

Gearing up for Grace

....Grace Church, that is.  The Thursday folks (aka the "Day Hookers") are gearing up to move their weekly gathering to Grace Church located at 440 King Street East.

Here's a photo of the last gathering at Halcyon Place.  It's been a great location for us and many good times were had there!