My Goodness!!
Has it really been January since I've last blogged?
Much has happened since those Scrappy Log Cabin Kits.
My rugs have now become 'a family affair'.
Everyone is helping including my
sweet four year old grandson
Avery
Avery has a new kit
Here Kitty Kitty
he is on commission
Avery gets 5.00 for every sale.
His Grampie cuts pennies and more pennies,
His Daddy is in charge of patterns
His Mommy is my assistant to
whatever I need and
Nannie now has time to do what
I love, to design and stitch.
and so..
this is what has been happening
since my last post.
The 'Corrie Penny Runner' is my newest kit.
I so enjoyed stitching this rug! It is adapted from
a antique cushion recently sold on
My goal this year is to work on my stitching.
To have primitive stitches and
this one is so very easy yet looks very prim.
It is a blanket stitch but reversed to show
the circle on the inside edge of the penny.
The construction is very similar to the
Scrappy Log Cabins.
The squares are pinned as the runner base,
basted and stitched with the
herringbone stitch.
Pennies are then stitched
in random sizes in the
reverse blanket stitch.
The sawtooth border is amazingly simple.
Center the triangle to the square, pin, baste and
again do the herringbone stitch.
The triangles are finished in a blanket stitch.
The pennies could also be blanket stitched
if you choose the
'not so messy' look to your runner.
Of course as you know..
every rug tells a story and to read the
story of 'Corrie' visit my listing in
This year I will have several rugs to
teach a lesson on making penny rugs.
This is the first of the teaching rugs,
Flowers of Spring
The rug is constructed of only
one inch circles with a stitch
exactly as the blanket stitch except
the needle always starts in the center
of the circle instead of the edge
of the penny.
Very easy and simple.
The 'Teaching Part' of this kit is
how to choose shades of thread to
compliment the shades of wool in your rug.
Most rug use one shade and this too can be
deceiving especially light and dark thread.
I also will talk about the size of thread
how the stitch and shade changes the
colours in your rug and ..
something I use in every rug I design.
The 10 foot rule
More information in my listing for this kit on
P.S. I will be working on uploading videos over the weekend.
Yes I finally gave in and did it!!
I know many of you have admired this rug.
It is my Halifax Rug chosen by
Early American Life
to photograph in their magazine
the year I was chosen for their
Artisans Directory.
Over 400 circles and many, many yards of
my age dyed string, this is the
largest rug I have stitched.
I have a few kits left but when those are gone..
this one is gone forever!!!
No going back because I only have enough
wool dyed for those pennies.
Each shade of the pennies had to be
dyed separately and was so much work!!
The kits left are in
Granted Kitty is taking quite a hug but
could anyone resist that sweet face?
If Kitty could talk..
what would she say..
Kitty is also listed in
Yes there are now PATTERNS!
A bit different in format from the
regular paper patterns
(would you expect normal from me?)
The patterns are full size and
hand traced on freezer paper.
No printing, marking, enlarging..
iron to your wool
cut and start stitching your rug!
Old Favourites from years ago along with
last year's kit patterns. such as the
Heart'n Hands
The Marriage Rug
The Colonial Basket
and more..
These will be available on and off throughout
this year and then retired.
Whew.. well that is about what is happening with
our family since the first of the year.
I'm so excited to be able to just
design and stitch
well ..
it's not too bad that I am able to
'boss everyone around'
too!!
and finally from
Avery and Nannie
A big smile and ..
HAPPY STITCHING!!!
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