Chantry … days gone by (maybe 1999?)

Found some old pictures from Chantry days at the Anglican Church - not sure of the date though and the date on the camera had  a year of 1999 but that may have been default on the camera, will have to check with Sybil …

 

 

 

This was one of the first of my own design, Edith Dunlop so patiently helped me design it off a plate… then I returned home to ummm conceive our first son Michael so this is his rug!  That was in the fall of 1992… about the 2nd or 3rd year of the school? 

Donating hand bags for women's shelters this year

Just donated 46 hand-bags to 11th Annual Gift Basket drive - for women's shelters around Toronto and area.  Mine is such a small piece but I never tire at giving what I can to help make it a better place for those who can't…  I work with my Mom on some of these and we share in the creations :-)

Headed up by Shelley Porritt and Jodi Binning, last year they managed to get an amazing 1800 gift baskets out to women.  WOW! 

www.annualbasketdrive.ca

Chantry 2010 (Pix of Karen Kaiser; Marge Bruin; Patti Armstrong)

Chantry 2010  (Pix of Karen Kaiser; Marge Bruin; Patti Armstrong - missing 1 teacher pix sorry)

Lovely week with karen teaching various techniques on a sampler… lots of fun.  Borders, design our own paisley from scratch with family numbers, a lot more effective than hooking with plaid wool in my opinion.  Not sure who's work these are below but just lovely...

Patti Armstrong was here as a new teacher - beautiful work )not done with wool at all!)  Again I loved the flowers on her bell-pull so snapped a few as you can see the details. 

Marge Bruin had an Open Class beside us… I loved her teaching rug with the flowers so snapped several :-) beautiful!

Chantry 2011 - My Pillow Tessellation Complete YAY!

Chantry 2011 - My Tessellation - Colour mapped to go in our living room with my other pillows and the Emily Carr's I hooked.  Turned out ok (a nice surprise) :_)

The tessellation was from a triangle, I then cut out on one side the tip to halfway an almost half circle then put that on outside of the same side of the triangle … on 3 sides you get the same result and can fit like a jigsaw puzzle.  With this design the biggest challenge was doing the 3 triangles in 3 colours so one touched the other… the colours did not exactly cooperate and repeat in a flowing colour scheme.  The middle was from a plaid orange over-dyed by Karen Kaiser I picked up during the class.  Nice touch Ingrid…

18" x 18" with black backside and 2 buttons

next up - hmmmm not sure… :-)

Look close and you will see in our living room some other home-made things… Find the stained glass pillow with sunflowers (Linda Sullivan's class), the photo with the butterfly by my Dad, 3 Halloween Punched coasters, a punch sunset from the class by Sybil Mercer (aka Mom), a totem pole (framed by Sybil & Don aka Mom & Dad)… + the infamous Emily Carr's centre piece to the room!

Chantry 2011 - Ingrid's Tessalations and more

Well what a lovely long weekend in Southampton for our Hookers :-) We spent 3 days in the new shortened format and it was just right.  A productive 'social' setting with a mixture of fall weather, some rain, some wind, some nice fall weather, oh and a bit of hooking mixed in there!  

I was in Ingrid's Tessalation class which I can barely spell but learned a LOT on designing new rugs from simple shapes made into repeating patterns that fit together with no background showing... the puzzle makers would love doing this and then add your colour scheme on top.  We had a ton of beautiful colours to pick from between the teachers for wool.  My target was to hook a pillow that had the colours of my 3 Emily Carr's framed in black hanging on my safflower wall in the living room. 
I brought along my finished Grandma Barger with Michael rug to show Jen in person and we had a nice distracted chat from our hooking time. 

Special thanks go out to Sybil Mercer and Vicki Cooper for all your hard work to arrange this.  And to our helpers before and after for set-up and clean up (Joan Rigby and Marilyn Euseden).  Here are some of the photos from the 4 classes with work in progress on some.  Take a look, and see you next year!
Oops I have a 2010 date as a watermark on the photos it was 2011! doh
Ingrid's sampler:

Marjorie D playing with colours:

My design taking a triangle and creating a tessalation:

 Charlotte's web by Ingrid - hooked by Carol Rowe:

Jettie Swaters makes the web into a flower :-)

Cheryl Harnack's table runner - fish and green is the colour from her room at home:

Working hard... Rachel, Lora-Lee and Jennifer: 

Hooking studiously... Norma,  Alice, Helen, Jettie, Carol, Rachel and Vicki/Pat supervising!

Helen Weurth's cats...

and our lovely Christine Beattie :-) fondling with her Hearts and Corsets (colour planning with Ingrid)

And some pix from the other classes - Marge |Bruin, Gayle Gunby, Karen Kaiser...

 

Gayle Gunby's class...

 

 

 

Karen Kaiser's class...