My Craft n Chat friend Grace is much more experienced at rag-rugging than me, but we still fancied doing a course. Our friend Fiona had recently made a magnificent, memory rug, inspired by Monet, which made me realise rugs can be art. Grace found out about a lady called Lorraine Cooper who runs ‘Rag Rug Workshops’, see facebook.
Grace sorted out the course and we drafted in some of our W.I. and craft friends to attend. Cakes were made and tea consumed. 11 ladies learning and chatting, lovely.
Lorraine provided the hooks, she had hemmed a bath mat sized piece of Hessian for each of us. We were told to bring fabric scraps, t-shirt material and fleece work really well as they do not fray. She also brought a large pile of fabric for us to use.
Lorraine brought the hooker on the left. You simply cut a piece of fabric 1 inch by 4 inch. Prod the device through the fabric from the front and back 1 cm away. Take the fabric, hook it at about 1 third of its length and pull it through. Then because you are a beginner, straighten it up. Lorraine can do this at lightning speed.
I bought the device on the right which enables you to prod through the fabric, pinch it and pull it through, both are good.
I was using T-Shirt fabric and Fleece as I wanted to make a bath mat. It is easier when you begin to work in stripes as it is hard to judge how much fabric you need. So if you run out it looks like its designed!!
The back looks pretty neat too.
I had to fill in a bit on the edges.
The hemmed edge makes it very neat.
Ta dah!
Nice blue rug for my blue bathroom.
Think the boat might need some rugs!
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