blog highlights

I am going to be switching over and start blogging at our new site (www.fisheyesisters.ca) soon, but this blog will stay here indefinitely for people to be able to access.  The only change that I've made recently is that I have decided to remove all of the pictures that I posted from the OHCG Annual and Hooked in the Mountains in Vermont, since I really did not have permission to share all of the photos.  {Truth be told, I have only ever heard from one person who objected....but I think this is the right time (and especially as we live in the age of Pinterest - where it is all too easy to share pictures and images without the appropriate references).  If I have missed any - and you want your work removed - please let me know (new addy: jen (at) fisheyesisters (dot) ca) and I will remove right away.}

Before I leave this place though, I thought it might be fun to take a bit of a walk down memory lane, and highlight some of the best and most popular posts over the past 8 years...enjoy!

TRICKS + TIPS...

• Using a syringe needle to speed up your sewing through any holes (buttons, handles, etc.)
• Salvaging the selvedge - reducing waste when cutting strips for rug hooking
• Wardrobe Refashion: over-dyeing sweaters and yarn to make them more wearable
• Pencil Trick for auditioning yarn for whipping
• Attaching pre-punched purse handles   (and I would also check out the syringe needle trick at the top of the list - perfect for this job)
• Keeping rows of hooking parallel and loops nice and straight
• How to hook faster
• Pretty label idea
• How to turn a belt into a purse strap
• Hiding tails amongst your hooked loops

POPULAR PROJECTS + POSTS

• Jumbo - my room sized rug
• Snow Folks
• Amazing Matrix Mats
• My Hooked Purses
• My Newest Adventures in Jewellery Making
• My Guatemalan Adventure (the first post is about the TMC show, but the rest are my trip in February 2013)
• Rugs from the Brick House, Shelburne Farms
• Behind the scenes with antique rugs at the Textile Museum of Canada
• Some Rugs from the Shelburne Museum 
• Catherine Henning's Rugs

Thank you again for all of your support and kind words over the years.
I will be back to let you know when the new site is up and running.... ;-)