Several readers were asking about this Halloween rug. It was purchased on eBay years ago. It measures 8" x 17 1/2".
Hooked on burlap, it is finished in a way I have never seen before. This method sure would cut down on binding time, wouldn't it?
I did a quick Google search typing in "skeleton flies rug pattern" and the picture of this rug came up. I looked on FB and there are many Alison Maurer's. It sure is a fun pattern.
I am thankful for my family (well, most of it!). It is teeny, tiny but important to me. There are cousins out there but I would hardly recognize them if I saw them on the street. Kind of sad, really.
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Pug hugs 😊
Lauren
Pug hugs 😊
Lauren
I do think it is a cute piece despite the binding (lack of), lol.
ReplyDeleteCool little rug. Love the finishing 🤪 My extended family is almost nonexistent. Thank goodness for the rest.
ReplyDeleteThe little Halloween rug sure is cute but I'm not crazy about the binding technique. It's a good conversation piece though.
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That rug is really sweet. I think that is true of most of us I know most of my cousins but not their children. And my daughter knows just a very few.
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I have WI cousins that I haven't talked to or seen for 20 years.
ReplyDeleteLooks like an edge I would do. Just bought a little primed canvas to attempt a floor cloth and it needs hemmed. Or not.
I really do love this rug...and hey....perfect size for me LOL. Might have to try to track the pattern down...um, yeah...right after the Beast....and Jack's Crow...and binding the Guillford runner. But wait....I have to find my hook first. :-( Such a slacker. I had no family my on my dad's side to speak of. His mother and father died before I was born....and his only brother died at the age of 21. My mother came from a large family and it was close growing up...every baptism, confirmation, etc. was an excuse to get the whole mess together...but, of my doing, I disconnected from them years ago. And likewise with my older brother and sister when they wanted to put my mom in a nursing home many years ago when my mother needed additional assistance and my older brother...who had lived with her with his wife and 3 children rent-free for 20+ years and no longer worked...wanted to stick her in a nursing home and just continue to live...rent-free...in the house. My bad because I was the bad girl who broke it to him that the state wouldn't allow him to live for free in HER house AND pay for her to live in a nursing home...and, gee....I thought it wrong to put someone who didn't need a nursing home IN a nursing home. (BTW...she still is not in a nursing home....now assisted living, yes, but not a nursing home....) And, I lost my remaining sibling (my younger brother) recently due to his lack of tolerance of a political view different from his....so, nope...no family to speak of...other than my skellies. ;-) ~Robin~
ReplyDeleteThat binding form was often done on antique rugs...hence the reason that they didnt survive. Remember hooked rugs were considered a lowly craft and not meant to be elevated to the standards of the asian knotted rugs for the wealthy. Hooked rugs were just an expression of color and crude design for the country folk or lower classes to brighten drab interiors and warm the floors for colder weather.
ReplyDeletePeople still use this method and sell the finished product on places like ebay...with the same mentality of these being just a disposable thing of no real value.
Sad...but true...investigate this further to find out how much rug hookers dont value their time effort and work. They do exist...although at a smaller number than the rest of us.
LOL at the edge...I'm not a hooker so it looks just fine to me. LOL Family. Always a difficult question. I have one son. Since Covid, I speak to him every day. For his mental health and mine. Before...we talked two or three times a week. My father, his parents and all of his siblings are gone now and I haven't seen my mother in years. Her choice. She was an indifferent mother when I was young and worse as time went on. I have two siblings, but since my father died and I released their inheritances, I don't hear from them often. LOL I have always said that I make my own family of friends and loved ones. My email is poseangela@sbcglobal.net I checked the follow-up comment thingy...I hope that helps.
ReplyDeleteFamily! They are the reason we get to choose our friends
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun rug! Janice
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