The Original Rug for my Article.

This is the first rug I wove for my step by step article. Before I knew enough to save copies of my original photos. 

I was going to post this yesterday but life happened and distracted me, my poor old Tukker.

I love this rug, it really reminds me of a plaid shirt, I cannot  quite figure out which, but it does remind me loosely of a tartan.

In Memory of Tukker

We lost our dear old dog Tukker, Canadian Inuit Dog, unexpectedly this morning at the age of 12. 

Here are a few photos of him.

Tukker in the river, a favourite spot!

Sleeping out back this winter.

Mark covered Tuk with this sleeping bag a few weeks ago, on a cold day, he slept like this for a couple of hours.

A close up view!

Thawing out in the front porch, he slept here every night this past winter.

He was a character, our big sweetie!!

My cat "Lu"!!

Littlebit, my 15 year old cat, affectionately know to me as Lu. Sleeps all day and wants to visit with me all night long. Maybe I should become nocturnal too. He is a bit of a brat, but I love him to pieces.

Plastic Rug

This is the progress I have made on this little experimental rug. Not much! I didn't even touch it yesterday, but will get back to it today. For as hard as it is to work with this shrink wrap, it is kind of cool, the woven bits. 

Playing with plastic on my loom

I had this great idea to try to weave an all plastic rug, with recycled plastic, that my local grocery store has been saving for me, from their deliveries. Shrink wrap... it is not great to use for a warp, too sticky, sticks to the loom, to itself, to each other. I had the hardest time winding this little warp onto my loom. Torturous, right from the start. I will post some photos today of the bit of progress I have made weaving. I know already in this little experiment that I have made my strands too thin, it is not as heavy as I would have liked.

A Very Long Week

I have been writing a step by step article on my felted wool rugs, for Craft magazine. I have never done anything like this before, so I did not know to make copies of my photos and save high quality copies. I sent off the article, with the smaller sized photos attached, in pdf. I was then asked to send the high rez photos. Yikes, I didn't have any, so I had to weave whole new rug, take new photos, and here we are. I have just loaded the photos of this rug, into the computer. Tomorrow when I have fresh eyes and mind, will choose and crop the photos I need for the article. What a stressful couple of days, and a lot of work!

I actually like this rug better for the article, it is brighter and more springlike. The other rug, is gorgeous too, but more like a tartan. I will have to get some photos of it and post it.

 

I just listed this rug, on my Etsy shop! It is a gorgeous little rug, greens, blues, grey and beige.

Rug Weaving!

I have been busy in the past week or so weaving, or prepping to weave rugs. I feel inspired for some reason! This rug, below, is very pretty. It has a beautiful range of greens through to blues to mauve to yellow. Very spring like! 

I have a lot of ideas, so I will be trying to weave rugs with some different materials, to see what works. I am excited about it! Our local grocer has started to save me different packing material, so I will be trying plastic before the week is through. I am not quite sure how to finish a plastic rug though. I will have to play around with it. I am not sure if fused plastic becomes brittle of it it is still pliable.

I will see!