Celebration rugs ~

 

I didn't take many pictures of the Celebration rugs.  I think I was on rug overload 😮  Here are a few.

That's it for Rug Week at Sauder Village, 2026.  Thanks so much for following along.

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Lauren

More Sauder rugs~

A few of the rugs from the stained glass windows exhibit from the Buffalo Trace Rug Hookers.

Remember Jennie from the blog Over the Hill and Running?  This was her rug in the Greenfield Project, based on a 1942 pattern by William Winthrop Kent.  This was part of an exhibit by Lisanne Miller of W. Cushing and Company.

Animals, Insects, and Birds Exhibit ~

Friend Valerie's rug ~

Copper framed contemporary rug hooking.  The linen was stretched over flexible copper tubing to create the shape of the rug.  Many different mediums and techniques were used.

People/Places/Pictorials ~

That face!

The Winds of Change Challenge by the Black Swamp Rug Hookers, the guild celebrated the 30th year of Rug Hooking Week at Sauder Village.  This challenge combined the symbolic windmill logo of Sauder Village with their favorite Sauder memory.

Fusion, which I would best describe as a variety of techniques, fibers, etc in a rug.

This is just a small fraction of the rugs exhibited.  Next post I will share the Celebrations rugs which were submitted by the hooker to be judged by a committee.  The best of the best!

Thanks so much for stopping by.
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Lauren

It's been a week already ~

~ since I was at Sauder Village for the start of rug week.

I heard the show had about 400 rugs displayed.  As I am seeing posts on Facebook, it's like . . . I don't remember seeing that rug or that rug or that rug.  It is a bit overwhelming even after having gone for many years.

This year I did not take as many pictures, but I will show some of them for those not on Facebook.

Of course patriotic rugs were my favorite. 

Just a sampling.

Will share a bit more in the next post.

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Lauren

I did it!

My goal was to finish my Antique Hearts adaptation by mid August.  Yesterday, the 15th, it was done!!!  I didn't think it was going to happen.  I reverse hooked about a half dozen of the "tongues" because after seeing them hooked, realized that the color placement was too close to another tongue with the same color(s).  The center of the tongue on the top left was hooked with a very dark teal, but it just read as dark and looked too much like the background.

Here she is hooked, but not yet steamed, a task that ranks right up there with binding 😝

I love the way teacher Jenny had me hook the background around the hearts.  I never would have thought to do that.  Thankfully she drew in all the directions for me.

Can you see that tiny bit of red in the center of the heart?  When I was not at my frame, Sue added that.  Just a little reminder of our class that will remain there.

Can you believe August is half over???  Where on earth is time going?  We have gotten rain every few days for the last couple of weeks.  My grass is green and growing.  I can't remember the last time I didn't have brown crunchy grass in August.  I need to mow more often, but no complaints from me.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

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Lauren