Wool Street Journal

April 2011

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The Wool Street Journal

An extraordinary Magazine for Rug Hookers with Heart

Includes colour pictures, how to's, dyeing and interesting hooky stories

3 copies available £5.00 each free p&p

Wanda's Beach Pillow

This is a little project I recently finished it is going to be a cushion but now I wish I had made it big enough for a rug. It is a Wanda Kerr pattern from www.thewelcomemat.com called The Beach Pillow I loved it so much I just had to have a treat so I bought the written details and drew the pattern out. I have hooked it with hand dyed hosiery I picked out several colours from my stash and away I went.

Rag Rug Workshops

Check the workshop dates on my website www.ragrugsuk.co.uk

Dye Workshop The Rug Studio March 27th

Would you like to learn to dye like this? I have one place available for the workshop. Learn different techniques to make lovely colours it's easy, fun and satisfying. £58 includes dyes and some materials.

Hand Dyed Swatches

Fabulous hand dyed wool material suitable for hooky, proddy, bags, patchwork, embroidery. Add embellishments for a wall hanging, lap rug, shawl or cut into smaller pieces and put into a picture frame! The pieces are 58"x32" and are fascinating to look at they have amazing shapes and patterns. I hung No 4 in my studio last night and couldn't stop looking at it there were some wonderful little stories bubbling in there! The colours look lovely in the pictures but are even better when you see them and can feel that gorgeous wool

Spring offer £30 per piece with free p&p offer ends March 30th 2012

these are now sold but there will be more to come

1 sold

2 sold3 sold 4 sold5 sold

6 sold

Colourful shelves

Colourful shelves of hand dyed wool swatches in my studio suitable for hooking and proddy for prices and postage go to http://www.ragrugsuk.co.uk

Light Box

Over a year ago I bought a piece of perspex to make a light box and it is still waiting to be converted! I usually transfer my patterns by using the patio window in my studio but on this occasion the pattern I wanted to transfer was small and detailed so I decided to try and make a light box. I did a good Heath Robinson job I found two boxes for the perspex to rest on and removed the lamp shade from a lamp popped it underneath with a stick to hold the bulb off the table placed the paper pattern on top taped it down and put the hessian over pattern holding it down with my cutting cassettes from my Ault and Beeline Townsend wool cutting machine on to hold down switched on the light and it worked! Now all I have to do is hook the pattern. I did wonder at one time if I would go up in a cloud of smoke as it did get rather warm!