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I have managed to appliqué the centres on to 1/4 of the outer ring over the last week but thats all the sewing I have done except mend a pair of hubbies trousers LOL
have nothing to show but my felt circles so will cheat and just add another photo to my blog and make it todays date????? I completed appliquéing circles to circles for 1/4 of the outer ring so it is growing quickly much quicker than I thought. Not looking forward to sewing all those circles to the rug thoughLOL. Cheers Glenda
Quilting wise nothing happening in my world have my arm in a sling and it is difficult to sew with one hand LOL I have managed to cut out around 250 more smaller and very small felt circles and I still need about 80 plus more???? My WW11 army blanket now looks more like a Penny Rug.
I have added another 250 smaller and tiny circles this week but thats all. I need another 80 plus and then I can stop cutting and start the tagging. Im not looking forward to that as I now know there are close to 1000 circles to do LOL
Not a lot even in the garden to show this week.
These have been flowering for nearly 3 months now?
Stunning colours yellow and oranges.
Our gum tree is shedding its outer bark like a lizard, this happens every year and I just love seeing the soft misty new green of this magnificent tree. It’s not really our tree it is growing on our neighbours fence line and most of the tree hangs over our side of the yard so we are very lucky.
Desert Rose this has to be one of my favourite plants in my garden.
Oh so beautiful!!!!
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Thank you for dropping by and Im sorry I don’t have more to share but it was this or nothing LOL Im going to link with Esther Aliu’s WOW or WIP’s now and look at was others have been doing this week, many of you will have been to Houston Quilt Show and are recovering LOL Cheers Glenda
what happened to your arm! you have been through enough this year first with the leg infection and now an arm and you still need your cataract surgery too I bet. I had wondered what you were going to do with those circles you were cutting. Your garden plants all look so lovely – fall here so most is dying off. I was lucky to go to Houston this year and saw lovely quilts.
Do you happen to have a post that tells more about making the penny rugs? It looks like fun.
You take any wool type blanket then add the felt circles?
Hi Marsha first thanks for dropping in I do enjoy chatting and visiting other quilters.
In the 1800s, starting around the time of the Civil War, thrifty homemakers would use scraps of wool or felted wool from old clothing, blankets and hats to make Penny Rugs. They would cut out circles and layer then two or three deep and the last circle would be the size of a Penny, but the American Penny was much bigger than it is now, often penny’s or washers were slipped in behind the circles to add weight to stop the rug from moving. I will add washers or Pennies if I can find some to the outer edge circles of my Penny Rug. Usually they used blanket stitch to appliqué them to the rug backing. Many were used at the front door.
Yes you can use any woollen blanket but look for a old one in thrift shops that have been well used, washed so its thick or felting, you don’t want a thin wool blanket it will move to much. Mine is an X WW11 army blanket so is well washed and felted it is over 80 years old so will never shrink LOL Check online you may pick one up for a few dollars. I cut my blanket in to the biggest circle I could and now having lots of fun adding the different size circles from 3inchs across to 1/4inch across. I use the tiny ones as fillers for those tiny gaps. Im only doing two thicknesses on my circles but some add 3. Im blanket stitching the inner circle on before sewing the circle to the blanket, much quicker this way as you only need to hold the circles and not the whole blanket. Hope you find a suitable old blanket and just have fun. Cheers Glenda
Glenda
Love your penny rug idea. I actually have an old army blanket that was in my family. I really like the idea of penny rugs. They are green, thought about Appliqué white flowers but the colors would look great as flowers. Thanks for the idea.
PS still beautiful trees and flowers.
Dear Ginabeth, first time I have heard that name and it sound so pretty. Were does it come from sounds Irish???? Thanks for dropping in and glad I have given you an idea to make your self a Penny Rug may be LOL You could make your flowers up out of felt instead of fabric and use thick wool to do stem stitch for the stems. So it would be a modern Penny Rug LOL. Cheers Glenda