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 with the dyes with her windows wide open in her kitchen and the
cool breeze coming in off the Atlantic ocean to keep her cool. The end result was the beautiful dye
colors she produced and we are the fortunate benefactors.
Provence
(an inspiration from a wrapping
paper)
Hooked by Denise Vandenbemden
One of my Belgian friends came to visit
one day and admired our work. She couldn't wait to give it a try herself, so I
quickly created a small pattern, inspired by a piece of wrapping paper,
provided her with the necessary material and got her started. Her stay was to
short for her to finish the piece and fearing that I might have forgotten what
it looked like if ever she called me later on for instructions I
made the same one for me. I called it Provence and this is how it looks. And hers?
Once back at home and her daily occupations she never took it up again. It
still sits in her suit case Well... that's life.
