Sunday, 20 November 2011
My Mr Rigby
Just looking at my Rigby cutter makes me feel as though I have suddenly slipped back an uncountable number of decades...it is like those awful dreams where you are - as you always have been in dreams - about 23, then as you wake you think, "No! I'm thirty-something, aren't I? No! forty-two... Oh, hang on..."
Frame
OMG. My poor credit card.
I couldn't go on any more using the embroidery frame I bought. The frame can't hold the bulky worked rug and it's very hard work hooking without a frame.
So I called up a lovely lady in Nottinghamshire called Cilla Cameron and within 5 minutes she had talked me into purchasing this octagonal lap frame. I don't even what to write the price down here. It should be here on Monday.
Cilla was very understanding and agreed with me that once you've started making rag rugs from recycled textiles you are bitten. It's absolutely consuming. It was like talking to a kindred spirit.
And I still don't even have the big frame I will need if I am ever to use my speed shuttle...but Christmas is coming soon.
I couldn't go on any more using the embroidery frame I bought. The frame can't hold the bulky worked rug and it's very hard work hooking without a frame.
So I called up a lovely lady in Nottinghamshire called Cilla Cameron and within 5 minutes she had talked me into purchasing this octagonal lap frame. I don't even what to write the price down here. It should be here on Monday.
Cilla was very understanding and agreed with me that once you've started making rag rugs from recycled textiles you are bitten. It's absolutely consuming. It was like talking to a kindred spirit.
And I still don't even have the big frame I will need if I am ever to use my speed shuttle...but Christmas is coming soon.
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
More progress
Last night I began that area in the middle. I'm getting anxious about making my colours spread evenly across the piece...so I sorted them all into roughly equal sized piles and stored the different bundles in ten carrier bags. None of this helps my sitting room to look any more elegant.
This rug Now involves eight different elements: six "rags" (i.e. recycled textiles) and two yarns - an unspun dyed merino wool and a commercial slub knitting yarn which I realised provided a bit of no-fuss variety where needed.
Sunday, 13 November 2011
Saturday, 12 November 2011
Edith's rug day 3 progress report
I did a lot of stripping yesterday and divided the strips roughly between 10 bags. I have no reserves of the russet knit, bright tweed, orange scarf or dyed wool - just the three coats left really.
Each strip works a line approximately one fifth to one quarter of the strip's original length.
I removed the ugly dayglo orange and replaced it with the russet and the clearer orange scarf.
I am having trouble with the frame I am using. The clips are feeble, and won't accommodate the bulky worked areas.
I've emailed Jenni for thoughts on this problem.
Hooking without a frame is very cumbersome, though.
Each strip works a line approximately one fifth to one quarter of the strip's original length.
I removed the ugly dayglo orange and replaced it with the russet and the clearer orange scarf.
I am having trouble with the frame I am using. The clips are feeble, and won't accommodate the bulky worked areas.
I've emailed Jenni for thoughts on this problem.
Hooking without a frame is very cumbersome, though.
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