Today there was a Rug Exhibit at a fire company in New Jersey sponsored by the Atha Chapter from that area. The guild I belong to, Hunterdon Rug Guild was heavily involved also with members belonging to Atha. A while ago they put forth a "Jersey Girls" challenge - to create a rug telling what New Jersey means to you. (http://www.jerseygirlchallenge.org/). There were a lot of rugs at the fire company - Lucy the Elephant, the Jersey shore, the Jersey Devil, Jersey Girls and the fact they DON'T pump gas, homes, and more. It was a great show - i believe there were over 250 rugs there. Below is only a sampling of the rugs - I was a complete bonehead and forgot my camera - but Sharon was there and at least one of us has a brain and remembered a camera! So thanks Sharon for the photos! I Another fun thing was they had vendors selling wool, patterns, foundations, hooks, books, candy, and anything you needed! I was very good and didn't buy a thing except my admission fee. I am trying to use what I have and not double up on things or have too many patterns on hand as I find after a time they don't always appeal to me as they might have 3 years ago and I have become selective on the books I am buying. Of course this doesn't include wool, I will never turn down a really cool piece of wool but I refrained today! LOL - So enjoy the photos (I could never put names with the rugs!):

The event was held in Oldwick NJ - it is little more than an hour drive for me - but today was so nice out it was a nice ride - On the way home I realized I had a coupon for a free movie that expires tomorrow - so I stopped at the movies - saw a movie late afternoon and then came home!

Then I decided when I got home that since there was still about an hour of daylight and it was still so nice out I would paint my basket I picked up for $3.50 at a yard sale -It's fairly large and was a light chipped up blue (but not "cool" chipped" if you know what i mean - it was dingy and dirty). So I decided rather than trying to strip the thing and stain it, I would make spray paint it

Before:

After (I spray-painted it a nice prim green - I think it looks so much "fresher" now!


I will use the basket tomorrow to carry my wool I need to for hooking - I am demonstrating rug hooking at the Peter Wentz Farmstead. This is the third year I'll be helping out thru my guild with the rug demonstrating - Tomorrow is the Sheep Shearing - always a big turnout and always lots of interesting people. It's supposed to be absolutely gorgeous so should be enjoyable! Hopefully I'll remember my camera!

Hope everyone is having this great weather and gets to do whatever pleases them this weekend!

Enjoy - Joanne