Summer and Rug Hooking

Have you ever noticed that once the warm weather hits that you rug hook less? We have such busy lives and then add the pull of the outdoors and sunshine and guess what?? Your rug hooking lies in a corner until the leaves start falling..........................

a couple of tips to keep you going through the summer!

Hook Outside!  Yes set up your frame or grab your hoop and a nice cool place to sit and enjoy your garden as you hook.  You will find inspiration from all that beauty and YES a cold glass of lemonade is always a good idea!

Hook for 5 minutes a day!  YES it makes a difference!  I have been trying to do this and over the past week it is making a dent in the never ending border I am doing and you know what?  you might just sit there for more than 5 minutes!

Hook a small project! 

  Maybe a pillow or get a head start on some Christmas ornaments, YES, it's not too early!

Whatever you do enjoy your surroundings, take a breath and smile!

May 30th Pot Luck Lunch

Hi

Karen Kaiser will be attending our year end Pot Luck as a vendor and as a friend of our group on Monday May 30th from 10-2pm so..........................dust off your cookbooks and scour your secret websites for your favourite yummy recipes! Who knows you may have the next recipe in our recipe collection: YUM!

Oh and I forgot to mention check your stash for colours you might need or WANT over the LONG summer as we won't meet again until September!

If you need something specific you can contact Karen directly on our link which is located on the home page of our blog!

Happy hunting!!!
christine

PHOTOS & RECIPES                                                                                         

I hope you are enjoying our new blog as much as we are!  It is a learning curve for me, not so much for others, hahaha! so please bear with us as we tweak this and that!

Please send me any photos that you would like to add or stories or experiences you would like to share: and YES FOOD!!! to add to our recipe section!  I learned early on in rug hooking "it's all about the food" . Every group I have been to always has some yummy treats to share.

Also if anyone knows who hooked some of our rugs on our "photo gallery page" that are blank, please let me know and if I have some of the names wrong please correct me.  I want to give credit to the proper people.

Please enjoy simple beauty in your life every day!

Here's the new website!

Today we launched our website officially!
Here we go!!!

Spring has sprung!

even though it is snowing!

Monday Meeting Reminder

I"M BACK!! it's so nice to be home! The sun is shining and I have a few crocuses that blooming, what a surprise!

The weather certainly is nice and warm and as I wander through my garden lifting dead leaves off of plants I am still amazed by the  discovery of new green shoots of plants yet to come, isn't life wonderful!

There is a feeling of rebirth in spring and of things yet to come and of course this leads me into the next thing...............our April 25th monthly meeting featuring Loretta Moore of Hooked on the Lake!!!

I know by now all of you have been looking through your patterns and wool to see what colours of wool you may need or hoops or hooks or WHATEVER!!

So here's your reminder...................

Monday April 25

10-?????

Grace Church

440 KIng St. W.

Cobourg

Bring your cheque book, cash and of course your lunch!

We will have snacks and coffee ready!

I CAN"T WAIT!!!!!!!!

see you then

chrsitine

April 25, 2016 Meeting

WE HAVE AN EXCITING April!!!!!!

I'm coming home!! hahaha! :)

NO NO! that's not it!!!!

WE have LORETTA MOORE from "Hooked on the Lake" coming to our April 25th meeting and if you remember last October she was at our hook-in and had lots of yummy wool and patterns and ,..............and..............and................I can't wait!!!!

I have been gone so long it will be nice to see all of you and all of Loretta's stuff!

I don't think I will have time to pull any loops!!

So get out all your projects you need wool for and here's Loretta's email address if you want to ask her for specific wool colours or patterns or whatever!!  hookedonthelake@kingston.net

See you all on April 25th

Grace CHurch

440 King St. E.

Cobourg

ps don't forget your lunch :)

October Hook-in 2015

We changed the rug hooking categories for the Port Hope Fall Fair in September - see details below. As you will notice, in addition to the sponsorship of the Northumberland Rug Hookers, two other categories are being sponsored by others. This is great news that needs to be circulated to our network now so that the hooking can begin!

RUG HOOKING: 1st $8, 2nd $5, 3rd $3

29. Wide Cut (#6 cut and higher) - any design 
30. Fine Cut (#5 cut and lower) - any design 
31. Original Design - no purchased patterns; must be your own design 
32. Alternate Techniques - a traditionally hooked rug that includes other elements such as braiding, proddy, feathers, mixed media 1st $15, 2nd $10 donated by Paulette Mouzer 
33. Fall Fair - design must depict a category in the Fall Fair book (farm animals, baking, plants, tractor pull, etc.) 1st $15, 2nd $10 donated by Catherine and Les Houston

Rug Hookers Best of Show as judged in the above five categories 1st $30, 2nd $20 donated by Northumberland Rug Hookers

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Carolina Rose

Here's Sheila's completed Carolina Rose, displayed on the quilt of the same design, completed by her mother.  Lovely!

Loyalist College Rug Hooking Week

Oshawa Hook-In

OSHAWA BURLAP LOOPERS
Spring Fling Friendship Hook-In! 
Saturday March 19, 2016
9:30-3:30
Location: L'Amicale Centre, 707 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa, Ontario
$5.00 Fee
Contact: Chris Mullett ckmullett@hotmail.com (905)725-4827 or
                Rachel Vaughan raevaughan@gmail.com (905)623-7942
We will have morning coffee, tea and goodies. Please bring your mug and lunch.
We will have a draw table, and vendors.
Our guest speaker will be Charlene from Singing Heart Studio. "Secrets of a Newfoundland Hooker"

We always look forward to seeing our Hooking friends, and look forward to a great day!!   

Chris Mullett

OBL President