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hooking and thinking

August 23, 2013 by Birdbrain 5 Comments

how we spend our days rug aug 13

I am still working out so much about the blog world. I spent the week making bags, photographing them and posting them. Thank you to those who have followed me through the process and purchased. I was overwhelmed with the speed of your response! Since I am a one-person operation and the sewing times are sporadic, there is no set time for new work and no way, other than the blog, to show you. Sometimes, people write to me and ask me how they go about buying a bag. I don’t do shows and I don’t advertise. Once a year I open my house for a Christmas sale.  But really, the best way is to check in here once in a while and see what is available in the on-line store–or email me with a request. All the bags posted this week are in the mail and off to new owners. 🙂

I haven’t been working too much on the rug, but will have more time in the next few days. Learning lots about hooking text. Although I traced the font, I find the actual hooking is more like handwriting. Each letter, although related to its cohorts, is slightly different. And then there is the world of meaning behind the quotation. Time to think about that as I hook. The templates you see scattered there will form the design of the middle of the rug. Right now I am thinking they will be in a spiral–but that will develop as I hook the text at either end.

Thank you for your support and have a great weekend, all of you. The weather here in southern Ontario is spectacular–even though there is that bittersweet touch of fall in the air.

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  1. sheri "Missouri"

    August 24, 2013 at 1:13 pm

    Your purses and little pouches ROCK, that’s why they fly off the shelf! I can’t wait to see what you’ll have for Christmas!!!!

    I hook also and love the lettering you have in this rug. I am looking for a cool font for a rug I am hooking. Looking for a script for the word “Giverny”. Do you have any suggestions of where to look other than “Word”?

    Missouri

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    • Birdbrain

      August 26, 2013 at 7:41 pm

      Wow! Thank you for the great comment, Sheri!

      The site I used for the font on the How We Spend Our Days rug is http://www.dafont.com/. There are many many great fonts on that site and I am sure you will find one that suits Giverny.

      Stay in touch!
      xine

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      • Sheri "Missouri"

        August 27, 2013 at 12:21 pm

        Thank you. I’ll check that site out soon!

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  2. Wendie

    August 25, 2013 at 9:17 pm

    I too was doing some serious purse drooling, but seriously, I have to stop buying them. My red one is my fave and it goes virtually everywhere.
    The rug is beautiful. I am really loving that soft background colour – almost robin’s egg blue – at least on my monitor. So true about the lettering being a bit organic. But it is looking perfect from here. xo

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    • Birdbrain

      August 26, 2013 at 7:47 pm

      Hi Wendie,
      I have been thinking about writing to you all summer. Every time I pick up the rug, I think of you and your contribution to the font.

      The background is an as-is texture. I am hoping to move the colour of the background gradually to a soft orange and yellow and rose and then back to blue. Not sure how this is going to go. And not at all sure about the design in the middle–but have lots of hooking to do yet at either end before.

      Btw, I got to Kaliyana in Montreal in the Old Port and as you predicted, I loved it and found great things.

      Hope to see you soon,
      xine xo

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