Rug meeting of 5th March, 2016

We have been silent for a while, I know. Our group attendance has been low the last couple of times, due to other commitments.

Our last meeting was at Anne's home and even though small, as always we had a wonderful time.

Anne, Jenny, and I [Chris] were there all day with Joy joining us at mid-day. It was great to see her.
Joy showed us the lovely gossamer scarf she was knitting, as she continued on with her stair tread mats, and Jenny her Stairway to the stars rug, Anne and I had a great discussion in her craft room, which would make anyone jealous, [only kidding]. We talked about the upcoming Craft Fest in Hasting where the YVR will be demonstrating and teaching 'make and take' projects for interested people.

Jenny's stairway to the sun

And in September we will be holding a Rug exhibition at the Coal Creek Gallery in Korumburra. This will be ongoing for a fortnight. Hopefully lots of tourists will be in attendance at that time. As I- personally, will be holding workshops at Milpara House Korumburra during term two, we hope this will also make a difference to the attendance, as slowly people get to know what this wonderful craft is all about. I will also be holding workshops in Lang Lang and hopefully Wonthaggi. My aim with this exercise is to raise money for missions and make rug hooking more widely known. I also hope to do some workshops for children and adults at a local church youth group.
Checkout my Facebook page HERE for details.

Joy's finished first tread and a start on the second

The day after the Craft Fest in Hastings I will be doing Rug hooking demonstrations at the local CWA craft fair in Loch. So even though slowly, we are working on expanding Rug Making in Victoria.

After lunch we actually got to work and did some hooking. Anne worked on her Fowl mood rug and yours truly on my Bird of Paradise mat.


On 15th March, I had a lovely visit from a very keen, beginner rug hooker from WA. Irene had visited our friend Miriam in Milton earlier and decided she wanted to take up proggy rug making. She and her husband were in Vic visiting their daughter and her family, so I was delightfully inundated with three adults and four children. The children were very interested in learning how to make a proggy mat, so the three girls had a go and a great job they did too.

Back to our meeting. We went on late on this day as we had so much to talk about., but thoroughly enjoying each others company.
See you next month. Hope you'll join us and learn how to make a rug. :)

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Next meeting of the Yarra valley Rug makers.

Our next meeting of the Yarra Valley Rug makers will be held at Anne's home in Warrandyte on Saturday the 5th March. All very welcome

February Meeting of the Yarra Valley Rug makers

Our group was very small- only four people, but the conversation was lively and interesting. No photos were taken at this meeting- sorry :( [I forgot, oops]

Joy was busily working her lovely stair tread rug number two. It was drawn and started and at the end of the meeting she had two lovely woolly sheep hooked in fleece and mohair. Very realistic indeed.

Sandra was working on her piped binding for Shaun the Sheep and Chris continued to work on her oriental rug. That was it really.

Sandra had to leave early as she had to arrange the flowers for her church for the following morning- Sunday, so she left with some additional lillies and crepe myrtle branches from our garden, aaaand, we do happen to have a photo of the arrangement that Sandra sent me the following day. Beautiful isn't it? I just had to show you all. Here it is, now you can enjoy them too. :)

February Meeting of the Yarra Valley Rug makers

It's that time of the month again folks.

The next meeting of the Yarra Valley Rug Makers will be held in Loch on Sat 13th Feb, 10 AM.

All welcome 

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January 2016 meeting of the Yarra Valley Rug Makers

As we all travelled from our various corners of the world to Warrandyte this beautiful Saturday, I am sure all our minds were on the day to be. Who would be there, what would we be talking about and what are the current projects.
We always look forward to this monthly get together.
There were six of us that gathered around the pool table at Anne's home. This large table being perfect for displaying all our rugs and hooking paraphanalia.
Anne always makes us feel very much at home and this is who we are. We are like a family as we get together and enjoy this day in each others company- learning from each other and with each other. New-comers are always very welcome as we had Anne Marie join us again this month. Anne Marie has taken to rug hooking with gusto and is working on two rugs at a time- a hooky and a proggy rug. What ambition this lady and accomplished spinner of many years has.  And she is making wonderful progress too.
Joy had us all intrigued with the gorgeous little needle felted dolls she was making for her grand daughter. At times she looked almost vicious as she attacked and punctured her dolls with a needle.However with needle felting there is no gentle way to do this and the end results is well worth it.
As we continued on with our current hooking projects we talked about the various activities we, as a group would be involved in this year. The Westernport Art and Craft fair on the 9th April, which we decided once again to attend, as well as the Biennial meeting of the ARG and exhibition of rugs in Canberra in September, and the Stitches and Craft Show in October.

Sandra's almost completed Shaun the Sheep rug

We also talked about ideas of promoting our craft in Victoria, but this is not such an easy undertaking as most of our ladies hold full time employment and other commitments, and spare time with family is always precious and to be treasured. Some ideas were demonstrations at libraries as well as conducting an exhibition of our works at some or other gallery or hall.
During the coming month some of us will investigate some of these options and report back in February.

As usual we had a delicious lunch prepared by  many hands and the end of the day came all too soon.

                Anne's lovely Sunflower proggy rug

Robyne's silk proggy rug

Jenny's 'Tight rope to the sun hooky rug

So, if you are one of those wonderful women who loves the challenge of learning another skill, maybe this is the craft for you.
Please come and join us at our next meeting, whether you live close by or far away, in Australia or even visiting our fair land. You are most welcome.

Anne Marie working on her chair pad

First meeting of the year 2016 for the Yarra Valley Rug Makers

Hi Rugging friends

Yes, we are holding our first meeting early in the year. If you need a rug hooking fix then come along to Anne's home in Warrandyte this Saturday 9th January at 10 AM.

Looking forward to seeing you there. 

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