Wool, Etc.

ACCORDION MEMORIES

his was done in Jule Marie's class and when I was young my father told me  the accordion sounds like any instrument.  I took lessons fort five yeats.  Every time I practiced, the dog would howl and the doors to my room would slam shut.  I made the border out of pieces of the accordion.  My family made up headlines which state that "Midge Plays Accordion Audience Leaves".  This was donw after I was begged to play for relatives and when I came into the room to play, they were all gone.  They were outside looking in the window and laughing.  The headlines showed up at the family reunion the next year. 

NATIVE SALMON

This rug is adapted from a Salmon Festival print with permission and is done in our native colors used in most of the art work.  I did the background in circles so it would show up like water  This was my first attempt at dyeing. AVAILABLE AS A PATTERN  $45 on linen

DAY OF THE DEAD RUG HOOKER

This rug was done in honor of the figures I see in Mexico honoring the ancestors during the feast in October. I needle punched the rooster rug and have a little hook attached.

I HAVE SOLD IT AS A PATTERN $45

CROW BASKET TOP

This is the top of a basket I made when I first started rug hooking.

CAN BE SOLD AS A PATTERN $35

GEOMETRIC AND FLOWERS

This rug was an old rug which I recopied and put on linen and then hooked with recycled wool.  It was one of my early rugs.  THE PATTERN IS AVAILABLE ON LINEN FOR $95

CROWS ON WASHING LINE

Laundry Line Crows designed for the washing board frame.  CAN BE SOLD AS A PATTERN $35 

BEE BAND FOR BASKET

This is a design for my market basket with the bees sleeping and the inside of a hive.  FOR SALE AS A PATTERN $25.

RAGGEDY ANN PAPER DOLL

This was an attempt to make a paper doll from rug hooking.  She is poseable and her clothes come off using velcro tabs.

 This is available as a pattern for $50.00 with the connectors included.

GEOMETRIC ROULETTE

I bought the antique stool and designed the cover for it.  My husband did the upholstery work.

Available as a pattern for $45

CROW BASKET

Another crow made into a basket top.

 Available as a pattern $25.00

FIRST RUG MY HOUSE

Husband drew the pattern and I hooked it with recycled as is wool.  It is large.

BEE HIVE

Adapted from a calendar.

PUG-O-RAMA

These are my two pugs who were bothers and you never saw them apart.  They died within a year of each other and were good dogs who snored loudly.

EAGLE COMMISSIONED

A man in the area found me so I finished a rug his wife had started before she died.

THE JOHNSON GIRLS

This is the first rug of the "Sisters' Project.  Each sister take a pattern and interprets it into rug hooking, embroidery and quilting and then we all enter them into our local fair.  This was a red work pattern.

RAM TOUGH

This was adapted from a Pendleton poster I saw in a sheep barn while demonstrating at our fair.  It is large and was in the 2012 Celebrations book from Rug Hooking Magazine.

BOUNTIES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

Challenge rug for 2013 ATHA Biennial "show us your colors"

MOI

Self Portrait done at a Green Mountain class with Diane Philips.

PEARL AND LUCY

Commissioned for my niece and her daughter as a gift. First attempt at a face about 2000. I needed instruction.

HOLLY BEACH RESORT

This is a memory picture of where I spent my childhood.  My family owned a summer resort where we had 14 cabins, and boats which were rented out and a store.  It was a wonderful time.

WEDDING DOGS

This is a commissioned work for my nephew for his wedding.  The two dogs met and the owners got married so I tried to do it like "Lady and the Tramp" movie.

QUEEN OF GAMES

This was a class with Susan Feller.   I learned how to applique the wool onto a piece and used many embellishments such as needle felting, sequins, embossed leather and charms.

REGION XI CHALLENGE

We had a tree pattern and had to hook a small piece using one of the trees.

KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL

I found a small picture and made it into a big rug.

GEODUCK DIGGERS

This picture appears in the portraits book of Ann Marie Littenberg.  It is a memory of my father and grandfather digging geoducks on Hood Canal.  This shell fish are very large and bury themselves deep in the sand.

GOOD CROP

Monotone picture I did from a small black and white photo of my mom and her mom in the wheat fields of North Dakota.  On the back of the picture was a title "good crop".

HOOK BAG

This is a bag I made and hooked the title with wool.  It is a very large bag.

TO MARKET

This was a sisters' project for the fair.  It was taken from a quilt pattern and entered into the fair.  I used a 8 1/2 cut on it and modified the picture.

BUNNIES

This is a pattern drawn by Sharon Baker and done as a group challenge early on in my hooking.  I did the entire background in wool yarn.

CARP

A rug which was another sister's project entered into the Kitsap Fair and the idea was taken from a poster.

WISE KIDS

A very early rug done of my children.  At the time, I was into Mary Englebreit's art

MEXICAN TIME

A good friend had a pillow which looked something like this rug so I made the rug using yarn for her house.

Colonoscopy

This was done in a class with Diane Learmonth.  It was deigned and done on my 60th birthday; which might be the reason for the title..

TRAVELING THE WORLD

TIGHR trading card. Traded in Australia at the conference

NEW RAIN

There are old swings located in front of the cabins of the resort I grew up around.  I wanted to picture rain and used a metallic ribbon for the rain drops.

ODIN

Did this as a commissioned wedding gift for my nephew, Kevin, and his wife, Emily, for their wedding.  It is of their dog.

OLYMPIC PENINSULA

A artistic rendition of what I see out my window every day.

VOLUNTEERS

A small wall hanging of the logo at Harrison Memorial Hospital where I volunteer.

SANDPAILS

I did this rug for my bathroom on large 4 x 4 monks cloth with cut strips of polar fleece.

SHIRRET RUG

An attempt at making a shirret rug.

MY OLD JOHNSON

This is a wall hanging of my dad sitting on an old motor which has my name "Johnson" on it.  Dad died when he was 57 but I gave him white hair and more of it than he really had.  Fond memories.

Trash Can

Trash Can Side

Scarecrow

Pattern available on monks cloth.  $30

The Crooked House

This is my embellished landscape. I used many techniques in this rug to show the possibilities.

The Red Tent

This piece was a challenge from Susan Feller. My color was red. I chose the theme of the red tent where women are together sharing stories passions, laughter and food in the tent. I used many embellishments and finished it with a gallery sewn black frame. It is part of a display of mixed media journals and is in private ownership.

Zentangle Pillow

This is a sofa pillow is about 6 feet long and sits on my couch. It was therapy while I was healing from an illness. I used leftovers and designed it as I went. Love designing and hooking this pillow.

CANCUN WEDDING

This rug was designed by me to ceebrate the marriage of my oldest son. Made with love and best wishes to the happy couple.

Guatemalan Rug from tour

Made with purchased binding woven by Mayan women and the rug is made up of all t-shrts from thrift stores Guatemalan style.

Queen of Hearts

I made her for Valentines Day for my mantle.

Queen of Hearts

Pattern with painted face- You just need to whip the edges together and stuff it. The bottom is a round disc of wool. $50

Tree Hut

Made it by punching with yarn. It has sticks sewn in on the sides. It is for housing some animals I had fun making.

Luna

Pillow that was commissioned for somone.

Evening Light

A picture my son took of his favorite place on the Canal at twlight. That is his boat on Hood Canal. A wonderscape was taught by Brigitta Phy at Puget Sound Rug School. Thispicture is now in his house.

Tidepool

This is a stool I hooked and is in a private collection. I starte it in Capri Jone's class at Puget Sound.

Tidepool

Closeup where I used silk cocoons and needle felting to show barnacles.

Tidepool

Top of stool.

Tidepool

Hood Canal spotted shrimp are the tastiest shrimp with sweet and firm flesh,

Tidepool

Jellyfish and shellfish.