Random Witterings! » latch-hook rug http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete A bunch of random witterings from ME! Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:25:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The rug is finished and in use! http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2009/02/the-rug-is-finished-and-in-use/ http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2009/02/the-rug-is-finished-and-in-use/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:45:09 +0000 Grete http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/?p=183 I finally got the rug properly finished, I used an iron on binding tape for the edges on the underside which worked really well.  Both cats have had a go on it and Bubbles thinks it’s her new love rug (she stands and kneads on it for ages while purring her head off).  Really pleased with the finished result and it’s great seeing it down in front of the fire and part of the room :)

Cat rug all finished and down in front of the fire

]]> http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2009/02/the-rug-is-finished-and-in-use/feed/ 2 And it’s finished! http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2009/01/and-its-finished/ http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2009/01/and-its-finished/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:43:16 +0000 Grete http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/?p=152 The rug is finally finished!  I just need to trim the excess and put some rug binding on before it can go down in front of the fire :)   I’m sure the cats will love ignoring it, even though all the way through making it, they kept trying to lie on it ;)

Here is the last in progress picture
Getting so close to the end

And here it is finished!
All done except for the final finishing touches

I decided to set out all the pictures in thumbnail form so you could look through them all at once.  For me, it’s great seeing it all come together!

The mistake is fixed End of next session Can start to see a kitty almost a whole cat done
one cat finished 2 cats almost finished Cat 3 in progress Cat 3 finished
Cat four in progess Cat 4 nearly finished Getting so close to the end All done except for the final finishing touches

]]> http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2009/01/and-its-finished/feed/ 3 More rug pics http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2009/01/more-rug-pics/ http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2009/01/more-rug-pics/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:16 +0000 Grete http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/?p=136 The rug is really close to being finished now, and I’m really pleased with the way it’s turning out!  Fizz is already trying to sit on it ;)

Here are some more progress pics.

Cat 3 in progress Cat 3 finished Cat four in progess Cat 4 nearly finished

]]> http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2009/01/more-rug-pics/feed/ 0 Rug update… http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2009/01/rug-update/ http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2009/01/rug-update/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:16:31 +0000 Grete http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/?p=127 I’ve been working hard on the rug, just slacking on posting pictures ;)   I’ve found it much easier doing it, with it spread on my desk so I’ve been watching DVD’s on my PC – Watched Season 3 of Bones, Season 1 of The Dresden Files and am continuing through my Buffy boxsets (on season 4 currently).  It’s been really nice just watching them as I work :)

Anyway, enough wittering, here are some pics!

almost a whole cat done one cat finished 2 cats almost finished

It looks a lot better in the photos than it does close up, it’s hard to see the design properly when you are working on it so it’s really good having these pics so I can see how it’s taking shape.

More pics soon!

]]> http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2009/01/rug-update/feed/ 2 The rug so far… http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2008/12/the-rug-so-far/ http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2008/12/the-rug-so-far/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:45:43 +0000 Grete http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/?p=112 A couple of photos of the progress – it doesn’t look like much but it was quite a lot of work honest :)   I like the last one the best as you can start to see the picture forming.

Mistake corrected and design continued

The mistake is fixed

End of next session

End of next session

And end of today’s session!

Can start to see a kitty

I’m getting faster at the hooking (that just sounds wrong!) which I’m pleased about and it is very relaxing.  Will post more pics as they come :)

]]> http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2008/12/the-rug-so-far/feed/ 0 For my next project… http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2008/12/for-my-next-project/ http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/2008/12/for-my-next-project/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:19:07 +0000 Grete http://www.darkstorm.co.uk/grete/?p=98 After finishing my latest cross-stitch project (Lady and Unicorn – I will get some pics up soon) I was wondering what to do.  Sometimes It gets a bit much jumping from one cross-stitch to another, so I wanted to do something different in between.

I’d bought a latch-hook rug kit a couple of years ago but it had languished in my overflowing project wardrobe ever since and while I was going through my options, Tony took it down (I’m a short arse and it was up high!) and suggested it.

It’s by The Craft Collection Ltd and is the Cats and Mice Rug Kit and it is really cute :)   I suspect it will become the cats rug once finished but that’s OK, I like to make things to be used!

I realised after I’d finished about 6 lines up the side that I’d used the wrong colours for the mice so had to take out the wrong colour and put the right ones back in.  I’ve done the two bottom ones so far and still need to do the two top.  Doh!

Will take another picture the next time I work on it :)

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