One Day project

I bought this kit at last fall's Wool Day at Canterbury Shaker Village. I enjoyed the little sheep rug hooking project from the kit from Harrisville (from my previous post), but I didn't really want to do a big project, so I picked this up. I love sheep. Can you tell? And it's not because I love yarn, I've just always liked them!



This little sheep is about 8 inches by 6 inches, and is made up as a little mat. It's on the coffee table for now. I'm not quite sure what to do with him. I could open up one of the seams and make it into a pillow, but as I've just finished the other three pillows shown in my last post, I'm not sure what I'd do with another one. Maybe this little guy should be a trivet/hot mat? Hmm...

I love Canterbury Shaker Village, but Wool Day is especially fun. They have people demonstrating tons of things: rug hooking, knitting, crocheting, sewing with wool, lace making (that was neat - hadn't seen that in person before), spinning, weaving, felting/fulling, and more. I'm not sure if they had someone doing braided rugs or not. They also had the woman that makes the Shaker cloaks for dolls and women, and she showed me all the steps of the lovely work she does. The Shakers used to make them for sale, and wealthy ladies in the city would buy them for opera cloaks.

Plus, they have vendors at Wool Day where you can buy finished products or supplies to make your own items! I bought a drop spindle there to try my hand at spinning some yarn, and will post about that sometime soon. There was lots of yarn to choose from, but I don't think I actually came home with any last year. I came home with the kit for this rug hooked sheep instead. This year's Wool Day is Saturday, September 25th.

The museum store is terrific, as well, with some crafty type kits for adults and children (the basket I made and featured on in early post I got as a kit at the museum store at Canterbury Shaker Village). They also have lots of beautiful hand made items like furniture, Shaker boxes and peg boards, as well as books and so forth. You don't have to pay admission to the Village in order to go into the store, so it's worth a stop.

Rug hooking is one of those things that I am glad I know how to do, but I don't presently see myself doing a full sized rug for the floor any time soon. Plus, I'd almost hate to step on something like that! :-) Although, I am working on something that will become a rug, but more on that another time.