The Season is upon us!

 

Christine’s rug, with lights installed!

Yes!  It’s a time for celebrating and feasting!  A few folks gathered at Grace Church for our usual Thursday thing, and there was lots of chat, and a few goodies, too!

Here is a sampling of a few of the projects on display.

Lynda’s punch project in a frame

Dora and her fabulous paper pieced quilt

Joyce’s latest - her infamous flower pattern

Jennifer’s blanket behemoth

And finally, here’s the centennial rug our group is working on.  Everyone is choosing a motif to complete.  If you see one you want to do (and that doesn’t already have a name on it) - let us know!  The finished project will be donated to Sifton Cook, i think?

Encouragement

 Today’s blog post comes to us courtesy of our own Brenda:

Hello rugger friends, I thought I would send out some encouragement to you! 

I have never considered myself able to draw, design or cordindate my thoughts enough to do an original rug. The pandemic lingered and so did my cares. I thought, well, I may as well try stepping out of my box. That box opened, closed, opened again and finally it broke. 

What has resulted for me was a sense of accomplishment, trust in my own abilities and the desire to try again. I realize that not all art forms, colours, shapes, and cut sizes don’t sing to all people the same. I am ok with that and have learned that there are just as many people who are thrilled with your art! 

But…. Here’s the true kicker…. It truly doesn’t matter!! Make your art and let it make YOU sing! Keep on creating my friends and encourage one another.  Feeling acceptable Brenda 

Yarn Painting

****new addition, Nov 3!  Check out this yarn painting from Mary Lou!

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We were fortunate to have Len de Graaf join us via zoom for a 2 session workshop on yarn painting - it was a lot of fun!

Here are some of the photos of finished & almost-finished projects.  If you were part of Len’s classes, send us your photos and we’ll update this post with more!

Jayne Nevins

Bonnie Young

Judy Lam

Len de Graaf (he worked on this during our class!)

Christine Van Hees

Jennifer Wiber

Dianne Algera

Sandra Pettit (in progress!)

More on our 2021 Visit to Lang

 Here is a GUEST POST by our very own Laurie Deviney and Brenda Ashton:

On Sunday October 3rd  the Northumberland rug Hookers set up a display and demonstration at apple fest at Lang Pioneer village north of Keene Ontario. The village is a gathering of buildings, equipment and displays showcasing the life in Ontario in the early to mid 19th century set in a idyllic setting by a river in the rolling hills of Peterborough County. 

The rug Hookers, Diane, Brenda, Laurie , and Judy first visited the costuming  room where they had great fun donning traditional dresses, shawls and bonnets. The shawls were expertly knitted.  Brenda fashioned a hairstyle and outfit that would be the envy of every 19th century school marm.    

 

The hooking display was set up in the Jacquard loom room which houses one of only two Jacquard looms in Canada. It is a working loom and there were some fantastic samples of 19th century woven blankets. The hooking display showcased many samples of rugs as well as a purse, trivet and some small creations. There was a cheticamp  frame and a few hoops with burlap as the rug Hookers took every chance to talk to the visitors at this living museum. 

Some of the most persistent and interested visitors were children and adolescents. They jumped right in and kept at it to pull their first loops. Then they continued  sometime for 20 minutes to try out different colours and textures. 

There were two young boys, Braden and Zander who came back after their first 15 minute session to spend another 20 minutes pulling loops and chatting about the history of hooking rugs. The demonstration went on fro 10-400 pm and a great time was had by all. 

The Northumberland rug Hookers thank Lang Pioneer Village and all the visitors for a great day of hooking. 

(You, too, can do a guest post on a topic of interest to NRH:  Just supply us with the words and maybe a photo (or a few), and we’ll take care of the rest!)

Ladies are at Lang

 Check out these photos from Brenda…..they were at Lang Pioneer Village for a day of demonstrating hooking!

From left: Judy, Laurie, Dianne and Brenda

FALL IS IN THE AIR

 Stepping outside this morning in my bare feet was a bit chilly and wet and I guess that means "Fall is in the Air"

I don't know about you but I'm feeling like, sweaters and all things wool and cozy warm.

Here is a photo of Rosemary with another one of her beautiful ponchos, sure to be a hit wherever it goes.

                                                 Think she's done a bit of modelling??????

                       Stay tuned for further updates on in-person meeting changes and keep safe!

Chez Joyce

We had a wonderful, tho rainy, visit with Joyce last Thursday.  She kindly allowed us to descend upon her home for a morning of chatting, laughing, munching….and rug hooking.  Here are some photos from the day:

As always, Joyce’s cat Kitty managed to “help” at every opportunity.

Hooking in the rain!

 

As promised, we held our 2021 inaugural in-person hooking day on July 8….but you clearly weren’t thinking those “dry” thoughts we were asking for!  We had lots of rain, and couldn’t really use the park for our gathering, so Christine graciously offered us the use of her garage!  A big thank you to Christine for coming to the rescue….and a big thank you to Karen Kaiser for bringing her wools to us!

Here are a few photos from the day.  Hopefully next week you will be thinking those dry thoughts and we can actually meet in the park as originally planned.  

Karen and Cathy are consulting on a colour plan!

A snippet of Jennifer’s behemoth rug in progress

Martina’s Fish!

Fran’s farmyard

Martina’s poppy, with beads!

Martina’s Mushroom

Gord’s cartoon panel

Karen winding wool!

Christine showed us her yarn painting in person

Dianne, Rosemary and Sandra

Jennifer’s bag (photo taken at the cottage)