The Welcome Rug Revisited

Thank you Kathy Stephens!   I was so impressed with the basket on Abundant Harvest from your Show and  Tell piece at Western McGown Teachers Workshop.  It was the perfect treatment for thee basket on my Welcome rug. I was never satisfied with the basket.  What I had in originally seemed too out of place--the color wasn't right and it stood out like a sore thumb to me.  There wasn't any relationship between the basket and any of the other elements in the rug.  What do you think?

Inspired by Kathy's piece, I am finally on the path towards getting this rug done!  Don't you agree this is working out much better?  I have used the colors of the flowers in the beading in the basket.  It really looks like a basket now.

Western McGown Teachers Workshop

While I haven't posted any of what I have been up to the past few months, I have spent a lot of time this last year uploading and organizing 25 years of photos for the Western McGown Teachers Workshop.  I feel it was time well spent as it could be a valuable tool for sharing this wonderful art form.

If you are interested in browsing through those photographs, they are online on Flickr organized by year.

Let me know what you think!

Rugs from March 2012 Guild meeting

Completed rugs shown at the March 2012 meeting of the Peninsula Rugmakers Guild

Hooked by Janice Ashley - Art Deco Peacock  adaptation

Hooked by Wendy Brannan - Name?

Hooked by Cathy Williams - Name? 

Hooked by Cathy Williams - 60th Anniversary Fraktur

Closeup of Cathy Williams' Fraktur

Closeup of Cathy Williams' Fraktur

Closeup of Cathy Williams' Fraktur

Braided by Janice Ashley

Hooked by Chris Friedman (visitor from Wine Country Guild)

Postcard display shared by Laura Pierce, Chris Friedman, Gail Becker from Wine Country Guild 

Postcard display shared by Laura Pierce, Chris Friedman, Gail Becker from Wine Country Guild 

Postcard display shared by Laura Pierce, Chris Friedman, Gail Becker from Wine Country Guild 

Some of my favorite postcards from the show:

Golden Gate Bridge, Marine Headlands - Sunny Runnels, Lantzville, BC, Canada 

Ripe Fig - Cai King, Fresno, CA

California Poppy - Gerri Shaw, San Jose, CA

Randy My Abalone Diver - Carol Chloupek, Fremont, CA

Rugs from January 2012 Guild Meeting

Completed rugs displayed at the January meeting of the Peninsula Rugmakers Guild

Hooked by Jeanine Speckman - Original design

Hooked by Jeanine Speckman - Original design

Hooked by Gerri Shaw - From a photo of her cat

Braided by Jeanine Speckman

Hooked by Jeanine Speckman

Hooked by Pat Merikallio - Her sister as a queen, original design

Closeup of Pat Merikallio's piece

Closeup of Pat Merikallio's piece

Show and tell

Barbara Hager-Paulson with her new cart

Rugs Displayed at November 2011 Guild Meeting

Completed rugs displayed at Peninsula Rugmakers Guild, November, 2011

Hooked by... 

Closeup of Santa

Hooked by Susan Kleindon - Sunflower name/designer?

Hooked by Susan Kleindon - Halloween name/designer?

California Postcard hooked by Carol Chloupek - Randy My Abalone Diver

Wool tree made by?

Sanda and Wool tree made by?

Completed rugs displayed at the October 2011 meeting of the Peninsula Rug Makers Guild.

Hooked by Betty Montang - Adaptation from an antique box of playing cards

Hooked by Susan Kleindon - Adaptation from pattern by ...

Hooked by Susan Kleindon - Hamden by Jane McGown Flynn (Western Teachers Workshop piece  from June 2011)

Hooked by Gerri Shaw - Hooked in monochrome theme from a photograph of her cat

Postcards hooked by Gerri Shaw -- Monterey Pine - California Poppy

Hooked by:  Carol Chlopek - Hooked Rug Sampler designed by Jane Olson

Hooked by Ardis Deane - Adaptation from postcard of Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk?

Ruth Ellen Saarinen shared needle felting from a class she took.

Bobby Alvarez and Pat Merikallio with Pat's portrait of her sister as a queen

September 2011 - Crow & Stars

I love the colors my friend Bobby chose for her rug.  I'm not sure of the designer.  Great leaves too!