The December meeting was lovely, with everybody bringing food and showing their newly completed rugs. 

This year  our Christmas exchange  was around the theme of snowmen.

A quick reminder, from Jan 2011 our meetings will start at 1.30pm, because the museum has to close earlier in the afternoon.

For those of you who saw Kirstys Homemade house, and the lovely rug she made,  and have been trying to buy a spring hook,

a quick note, you can just as easily make proddy rugs using an old fashioned dollypeg with one leg removed and the remaining one sharpened to a point.

These rugs are worked from the wrong side. They end up the same on the right side. 

The green rug above is such an example, the photo includes the wallpaper that inspired the choice of colours.

The lovely purples and lilac proddy rug, all in wools ,is made in the same way.

 

The picture below is actually part of a knitted scarf, put done with wool that has small pompoms along its length.

 I wonder if one could make larger pompoms and string and then knit them into a rug? If anybody makes one, let us know and we wil publish a picture...

 

This African inspired rug explores a new technique, the figures are hooked and sewn over the background hooking.

The figures stand out in relief.

 

The small punch needle picture with blackbirds was a christmas present, not quite finished by the time of the meeting...

IT was inspired by the crow pattern in Punchneedle Embroidery by Barbara Kemp and Margaret Shaw.. Lark/Chapelle..

(by the way, a delightful book especailly for rug makers who want to make small versions of thier favourite historic rugs... very inspiring.. )

The shapes of the blackbirds emerged, rather plumper than the crows, well fed on digestive bisciuts.

  

 

 

 

 

 

And now finally to the Christmas theme:

And the Christmas snowman exchange: