Show & Tell - July 2009
Oxen in Summer Designed by Maud Lewis and hooked by Maureen Rowe This was hooked from a Maud Lewis kit purchased in the boutique of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia where there is a permanent Maud Lewis exhibition. I was so taken with Maud’s primitive art and her colours that I decided to do this piece of “Oxen in Summer” with variegated wool in the same colours she used, rather than the solid house paint coloured wool that came in the kit, so it is hooked à ma façon. It was lots of fun to do as Maud’s subjects are always so whimsical. Fall (sampler) Designed by Mary Lou Lais Hooked by Lucie Geneviève Lambert I used #6 cut and new and recycled wool on monks cloth. Jacobean A Rittermere Design hooked by Audrey Colliss This is a print I bought from Rittermere the late eighties. The colors I used were "Joan Moshimer Jacobean Colors". She spent one whole summer experimenting wi...