Sunnie’s Hooked Chairpads with Leftovers – Rug Hooking

I am continuing to paint the dowel  and ends for my Seasons Banner as it needs several coats of paint!  I am sewing the hanging sleeve on the back today.  I like to use felt for my hanging sleeves to avoid having to turn in raw edges! 

My “finishing” project for yesterday was another of my Chatting Chickens” chairpads using the leftover woolworms!  I finished the background on the new one and it is shown with the earlier one I posted.  All I have to do now is steam the piece and redo a couple of wool strips…then to finish the edge and I have another project finished!!!!  Hooray!

It is very bad weather outside today here in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.  The ground is a sheet of ice, we are having freezing rain and I am thinkful for sand and salt (our little bags!!)  and also the road sanding done by the workers who keep our dirt road safer for us all Winter long! 

I need to change a couple of the strips in the aqua chicken’s head!!!!   The head looks a little odd to me!!!  LOL   Why would I worry about a couple of strips looking odd when all of the chickens look odd!!! 

Happy Hooking, and I hope your weather is nicer than ours today and you have sunshine instead of gray skies!!  Sunnie 

Sunnie’s “Leftover Woolworms” Rug with Penny Tongues – Rug Hooking

While I am finishing up my Seasons Banner, I am posting a few other things you might enjoy seeing.  I am always thinking up rug designs for using leftovers so this is the one I took to ATHA when I took the class “Adding penny rug tongues to a hooked rug” class with Carrie Martin.  I think I posted this earlier but didn’t show where I was using this piece.  We have a little wooden chest in our bathroom and this is what I wanted the mat for.  I put penny tongues only on one side as the other side is right by the shower curtain!!!

And the top of the mat… 

Happy Hooking, Everyone!     Sunnie 

Sunnie’s Hooked Rug Valentine – Rug Hooking!

I’m sewing away on my Seasons Banner binding on the back of the piece… and have decided how I want to hang it.  I’m using a dowel that I will paint dark and attach simple decorative wood ends to the dowel.  I am sewing a hanging sleeve on the back and I think we have some old fashioned nails to put into the wall to set the dowel on.  If not, I will try to get some wrought iron hooks to hold the piece.

I thought you might enjoy seeing a rug that I designed and started some years ago…called, “Be My Love, A Fraktur Valentine”.  I think it was in 2008 when I started this although it might have been earlier.  I find a lot of inspiration from old frakturs and samplers, and there are many examples of couples in these designs.  I designed my own and, of course, added a little humor in the process.  The diamond ring the ardent young man is offering his excited “bride-to-be” is large enough to go around her neck!  As you know, it helps to enlarge something to call attention to it!!!! 

I also thought that, although the young man is dressed very nicely, he is wearing what looks like rain boots or garden boots!  Perhaps he is a wealthy farmer?

I used some leftover woolworms in the rug and was experimenting with plaids.  (A Lot of plaids in the background!!!!!…and in the border!!!!)  LOL

I  have finished the hooking and am in the process of steaming this one and getting it ready to add the binding and do the whipping!  Maybe next Sunday when we continue with “Downton Abbey”! 

I have several other rugs planned that use antique motifs from frakturs and samplers…I love doing them so I have a lot to look forward to.

Happy Hooking!  Sunnie   

 

Sunnie’s “Chatting Chickens” Chairpad – Rug Hooking!

Happy Tuesday! 

Since I am doing some steaming, back finishing and deciding upon the best way to hang my  Seasons Banner, I thought you might enjoy seeing what I do with some of my leftover “woolworms”!!! 

I designed a couple of different patterns for my “Chatting Chickens” chairpads  a few years ago…so I used one of them to use up my leftover wool strips!!!!  LOL  They are a little goofy at the best of times, when some colour planning has been done…but when simply using leftovers, they can be really goofy!!!!  

Here is one…

These are fun patterns because I can use wild colours, prim colours or lighter colours and still have my funny chickens!  One other pattern has the chickens wearing hats…and, of course, that means more fun with embellishments!!! 

It’s rainy, icy and gray here in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom today…I’m off to my studio to do more sorting , organizing and hooking!  I will post a rug that I am finishing up tomorrow…I started it several years ago and have been working on it off and on for all that time!  No rush, no hurry…and I enjoy the theme…”Be My Love, A Fraktur Valentine!”

Happy Hooking, Sunnie