A Week in Rugs

I’ve been busy, busy, busy making a variety of rag rugs and a weaving over the past week. I thought I’d just post some photos of my creations.

 

Weaving the Woven - WIP

I have been busy working on a hand woven wall hanging using purely recycled fabrics hence the name weaving the woven. This is a home made frame loom which is really easy and quick to make. I will post more photographs as soon as the hanging is complete.

Crochet Clootie Tree in Flower

To learn more click the following links - Clootie Tree - Crochet Gardening  and The history of the Clootie Tree.
Clootie Tree update March, 2010
To contribute crochet ribbons to the crochet clootie tree please email me at thesunroomuk@googlemail.com

More Ribbons For The Clootie Tree

I recently received some gorgeous crocheted ribbons for my Clootie tree fro Pauline, Thank You so much Pauline. I will get more photos of the tree once the sun decides to come out again. Yes it’s nearly April but we are again covered in snow.

If you would like to see some of Pauline Fitzpatrick’s Crochet Art & creations the please click here - Pauline Fitzpatrick.

I really love the crochet woven ribbon – really interesting texture.

Lovely spirals here.
If you would like to crochet some ribbons and contribute to this project then please email me at thesunroomuk@googlemail.com
If you would like to learn more about what a clootie tree is  then click here.

Clootie Tree Update 8th March, 2010

I recently received some crocheted ribbons from Perry in MA, USA. Thank you Perry. Here are some updated photos of the tree.

Thing-a-day Day 26 – Clootie Tree Ribbons

 
As some of you may remember I recently posted on thing-a-day crochet clootie tree. As a result of my endeavours I have inspired a fellow crocheter in the USA to create their own Clootie tree. We have agreed to a mutual exchange of crocheted ribbons for our respective clootie trees. Today I spent time making ribbons to send to MA USA and sent them.
For more information on the history of clootie trees please visit here.
To see photos of my clootie tree please visit here.
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Thing-a-day Day 17 – Playing with Trellis Pattern

Today I just wanted to have a play about with multiple layers of trellis. I came up with this scarf and I do like the movement of it.
Although, as is often the case with me, I prefer the reverse of the made up pattern.
Reverse views.

Thing-a-day Day 13 – Prodded Wheatgrass

Completed prodded rag rug thing – recycled wheatgrass sack. Not a clue what I’m going to do with it – suggestions on a postcard please.

Crochet Heart Rag Rug

As you may know I have been busy working on a beastie of a rag rug and as it approaches 6ft I’ve decided it would be better at 7 or 8ft. It’s getting incredibly heavy to have on my lap as I work my way around it. So as a little incentive I decided that I would attempt to create a small, quick, heart shaped rag rug. I think it would make the perfect bath mat or shower mat. Not really my normal type of colours but as I worked on it I decided it would do equally well in a Nursery.
I had no pattern and just started where I thought would be a good place with a 6 chain loop and went from there.

When working with a crocheted rag rug my methodology is to literally feel your way. Not only are you trying to construct a shape but to feel and decipher the appropriate tension. A rug that lies flat is definitely the desired outcome. After all I don’t want anyone stumbling out of the shower to be tripped up by a rippled and wavy mat.

Here again I have worked with a 10mm hook and cut the fabric to approx. 1cm or 1.5cm.
Here we go – colour change number one and the beginnings of an embryonic crocheted heart. The thing I love about crocheting fabric is how quickly you can achieve growth. The thing I hate most is the time required to go through the cutting process.

This week, being the summer holidays, I have had my little people to help me with this. However the premise of their help has been negotiated on a financial reward basis and so my little rag rug must be worth more than an axminster carpet.

This is me working on the rug and it is the reverse that you can see. It looks pretty against the poppy print of my skirt, well I thought so anyway.
And voila it’s all but done – well in fact it is now complete. It’s a naughty little heart as it has distracted me from the bigger picture, the mega rag rug.
Here is the little naughty heart photographed on some of the fabric used in the crocheted rug. The colours remind me a Kath Kidston creations and are outside my normal comfort zone. The rug measures approx. 60cm or 24” and will be a bonus to the shower room I hope.
Once dinner is cooked, spaghetti bolognaise, and the mini people are away to slumber the big beastie rug will be upon my lap again. Hopefully early next week I will be able to take the final photograph to show you all.
I now have the weekend in front of me to plan, imagine and muse over yet another ‘project’ – or I could finish one of the outstanding ones, I know. The next two weeks are going to be hectic with little people coming and growing (freudian slip but it’s appropriate). I have other visitors to come to and so my creativity will be hampered. I shall enjoy the calm before the storm.
Have a creative weekend.

Thing-a-day Day 4 – Crochet Sculpture

 
Here I just crocheted 5 separate hyperbolic roses and then stacked them on top of each other.

Exploring Fibre With Innovation 2010

Just a quick blog to let you know that I have been awarded funding from the Scottish Arts Council in partnership with Fife Council to undertake the above project in the new year.
I will of course share my project, research and findings with you all and hopefully provide some innovative findings which may be inspirational to some of you.
This project will allow me to research new ways of producing work. By researching the different types of fibres available and their inherent properties it will allow my creativity to expand in new directions.
The relationship between fibre and the final object or outcome is an interdependent relationship and I would welcome exploring and documenting these relationships in terms of construction, aesthetic appeal, sustainability and functionality.



Scottish Arts Council
Fife Contemporary Arts & Crafts

Knitting Fashion | Design for Yourself BBC Archive

CHANNEL | BBC 2
FIRST BROADCAST | 22 November 1976
DURATION | 24 minutes 37 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST 1976
1976
In this episode of the 'how to' series, Jan Leeming and Pam Dawson, both wearing vivid examples of knitwear fashion, discuss adapting basic patterns to one's own designs. James Walters, wearing a crochet suit, encourages free thinking for knitters with his call for designer obsolescence, Pam gets upset by bad combinations of stitches and wool, and there is a nice demonstration of a dolly bobbin for French knitting.
Jan Leeming went on to become a BBC newsreader until 1987 and in 2006 took part in Channel 4's 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here'. James Walters is an exponent of scrumbling, which is a kind of 'freeform crochet'.
Click here to view.

Freeform Crochet Scarf – Thing-a-day, Day 1.

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Doodling with yarn - Wendy Moiselle shade 750, crochet hooks 10mm & 5mm.  Freeform crochet scarf.