Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style!

[Reetzbobeetz]

Have a wonderful, restful (if something like that is even possible) and safe vacation Lotti! Enjoy your time with family and friends and find lots of goodies to bring back home. Would love to see photos!!! :mrgreen:

[golfjane]

Lotti,
Enjoy your vacation--ahhh, Spring in Canada--what could be better.

And Rosemary, "naughty" might be great fun--let's see it!

Limbania, #6? How many more of these do you have to endure. Sending lots of good thoughts your way

[golfjane]

Lotti,

And Rosemary, "naughty" might be great fun--let's see it!

The back story - over Easter we visited Stonehenge, Avebury and passed by at least one of the 'white horses' in the Vale of the White Horses. These are hill carvings where the top soil is very shallow and you are quickly down onto the chalk subsoil. One at least is from the late Bronze Age (Uffington) and the rest from 1780's through to the present day, and I thought that they could make an interesting quilt designs. I then started trying to remember other chalk figures and came up the the 'Cerne Abbas Giant', who compared to the 'Long Man' is definitely 'naughty'.

[Reetzbobeetz]

These will make very interesting mug rugs Rosemary. The Cerne Abbas Giant is just ready for action (not matter which action is required. :lol: )

[golfjane]

Well, since I was not at all familiar with the chalk drawings I had to Google them. You're absolutely right, Rita, very interesting (maybe arresting) mug rugs :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[suehenyon]

dang that would a mug rug for the grandchildren to see :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Sewdreamy]

Lotti,

And Rosemary, "naughty" might be great fun--let's see it!

The back story - over Easter we visited Stonehenge, Avebury and passed by at least one of the 'white horses' in the Vale of the White Horses. These are hill carvings where the top soil is very shallow and you are quickly down onto the chalk subsoil. One at least is from the late Bronze Age (Uffington) and the rest from 1780's through to the present day, and I thought that they could make an interesting quilt designs. I then started trying to remember other chalk figures and came up the the 'Cerne Abbas Giant', who compared to the 'Long Man' is definitely 'naughty'.

Rosemary, I've always wanted to see Stonehenge and the Vale of the White Horses. My dear late Marvin had a whole collection of books on them. He visited them when he did a European tour following his graduation from college. So when my youngest son, who is now grown and a sci-fi/fantasy writer, was little, he made up a story about "the enormous men" who put these things in place. He has always told fantasy stories even from when he was very young...knowingly imaginative stories, not lies. I think the Cerne Abbas Giant would make a very funny mug rug, but you would have to put another design on the back so you could turn it over when the grandkids were around. LOL

[Sewdreamy]

Hooray! I just finished my final rug mug and now I can work forward on my Hoffman Challenge quilt. I have to work fast... But I feel better having these rug mugs done. I'll mail them soon.

[Sewdreamy]

So, if I do a series on chalk figures for my mug rugs is there going to be a fight as to who wants the Cerne Abbas Giant? :lol:

BJ it might depend upon the age of the grandkids :wink:

[golfjane]

Not if you do them all with the Cerne Abbas Giant -- and I want the first in the series !!!

[golfjane]

Not if you do them all with the Cerne Abbas Giant -- and I want the first in the series !!!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

That will be the White Horse at Uffington then, since I have already started the series :wink: :lol:

[golfjane]

No, no, no! I want the Giant--no white horses :P :P

[golfjane]

Jane, you can have the giant. If I had him, I wouldn't know where to put him when the grand kids come over. ops: LOL

[golfjane]

My 6 grandkids are all grown up so no worries there--and they all live in the midwest while we're here in AZ so we don't get to visit often. When we do we all have a great time but it doesn't happen too often. Anyway, I'd just tell them it was some abstract artwork that a good friend made for me, or set my cup down very carefully in the most appropriate spot :lol: :lol: :lol:

[golfjane]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I took my 6-year old to the Museum of fine arts because he says he is an artist, and I wanted to nuture that in him. I never ran through that Museum (MMFA) so fast and 'saw' stuff through his eyes I had never seen before! But at the end I asked him what was your favourite and he said the Picasso. Like the 12 foot tall Picasso with the giant thing about 2 feet long. At 6, I don't think he knew what some of the items represented. But it wasn't that abstract to me. ops: :lol: