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.
Friday, July 6, 2012
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.
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.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
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!
If you are interested in browsing through those photographs, they are online on Flickr organized by year.
Let me know what you think!
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Rugs from March 2012 Guild meeting
Completed rugs shown at the March 2012 meeting of the Peninsula Rugmakers Guild
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| Hooked by Janice Ashley - Art Deco Peacock adaptation |
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| Hooked by Wendy Brannan - Name? |
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| Hooked by Cathy Williams - Name? |
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| Hooked by Cathy Williams - 60th Anniversary Fraktur |
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| Closeup of Cathy Williams' Fraktur |
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| Closeup of Cathy Williams' Fraktur |
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| Closeup of Cathy Williams' Fraktur |
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| Braided by Janice Ashley |
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| Hooked by Chris Friedman (visitor from Wine Country Guild) |
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| Postcard display shared by Laura Pierce, Chris Friedman, Gail Becker from Wine Country Guild |
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| Postcard display shared by Laura Pierce, Chris Friedman, Gail Becker from Wine Country Guild |
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| 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 |
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| Ripe Fig - Cai King, Fresno, CA |
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| California Poppy - Gerri Shaw, San Jose, CA |
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| 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
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| Hooked by Jeanine Speckman - Original design |
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| Hooked by Jeanine Speckman - Original design |
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| Hooked by Gerri Shaw - From a photo of her cat |
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| Braided by Jeanine Speckman |
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| Hooked by Jeanine Speckman |
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| Hooked by Pat Merikallio - Her sister as a queen, original design |
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| Closeup of Pat Merikallio's piece |
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| Closeup of Pat Merikallio's piece |
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| Show and tell |
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| Barbara Hager-Paulson with her new cart |
Rugs Displayed at November 2011 Guild Meeting
Completed rugs displayed at Peninsula Rugmakers Guild, November, 2011
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| Hooked by... |
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| Closeup of Santa |
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| Hooked by Susan Kleindon - Sunflower name/designer? |
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| Hooked by Susan Kleindon - Halloween name/designer? |
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| California Postcard hooked by Carol Chloupek - Randy My Abalone Diver |
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| Wool tree made by? |
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| Sanda and Wool tree made by? |
Completed rugs displayed at the October 2011 meeting of the Peninsula Rug Makers Guild.
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| Hooked by Betty Montang - Adaptation from an antique box of playing cards |
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| Hooked by Susan Kleindon - Adaptation from pattern by ... |
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| Hooked by Susan Kleindon - Hamden by Jane McGown Flynn (Western Teachers Workshop piece from June 2011) |
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| Hooked by Gerri Shaw - Hooked in monochrome theme from a photograph of her cat |
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| Postcards hooked by Gerri Shaw -- Monterey Pine - California Poppy |
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| Hooked by: Carol Chlopek - Hooked Rug Sampler designed by Jane Olson |
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| Hooked by Ardis Deane - Adaptation from postcard of Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk? |
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| Ruth Ellen Saarinen shared needle felting from a class she took. |
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| 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!