When I was a girl, back in the 1950s I watched my aunt crochet rag rugs. She used strips of colorful cotton fabric 1-1.5 inches wide and typically made round or oval rugs. Each one had circles of multiple colors. She died when I was ten and maybe 8-10 years later I saw my mother trying to make one and I immediately said she was doing it wrong. My aunt never taught me but I saw her do it enough to know how to do it. My mother handed me her scraps and said well you do it then. Within maybe two hours I had a new round throw rug using a simple crochet stitch (do you call them stitches?). If you have a lot of strips of cloth left over from your projects it is fun and easy. If you have a larger piece of fabric you can make a long strip by cutting around the outside going around and around. It is fun using lots of colors but I like having enough of one color to make at least one lap around an inch wide or more. Watching you from Georgia USA.
I have seen a different way of doing this using a spring tool. It's worked from the front, you put the spring tool down and under 2/3 threads,then up and open the tools mouth, grab the clip and pull through to half way , so you are working from the top of the rug. I think its called shaggy rag rugging.
We used to have big rugs (not like yours, but also wool) at home when I was a child. To clean them properly, we carried them out when it had just snowed, up them upside down (good side towards the snow). and then we kids got to dance on them, my mum even put on music. Afterwards, you could see the snow gey and dark from dirt where the rug had been....
My friend makes “proddy” mats as we call them round our way in Teesdale. She has a very clever idea whereby she makes a mat with a channel in the middle where there is either no fabric or shorter fabric pieces which you then slide under the door. The mat moves with the door when you open and close it if you can imagine it.
Great idea! I'm here thinking that the diameter of Kate's may be too big, and so perhaps won't make adequate contact with the door.... it mightn't exclude the draughts totally. I love the concept, just that all draught excluders I've seen are quite thin.
When l was a young girl(over 70 years ago )l would sit and watch my mother and my granny make colourful rugs to put by the fire,such happy memories. Yours is going to look lovely.🧶
I so enjoy hearing about your daily activities. I am alone and you encourage me. I am starting to find it difficult to do yard work. I love picking up information like setting colors and such. Just thank you...you are my company.
Thank you so much for sharing. I have a half finished rug that I think I’ll now finish in the autumn. I still have my great Nana’s hand carved prodding tool. As a bairn growing up in the Boro, I remember my nana making these rugs. Her favourite pattern was a diamond grid in black filled in with solid colours. But I do remember her arguing with my great aunt, because aunty Mary preferred the colours mixed in a salt and pepper style , and she’d mixed all the colours up! Mostly as I say they were diamond patterns , but just after the war she made a “Mary Mary quite contrary “ rug for my mams bedroom. Their rugs were made on washed coal sacks with chopped up trousers and jackets. The best rug would be in the bedrooms. As they wore down they were moved into the kitchen (sitting room) then the back kitchen (kitchen) and finally in front of the sink in the outhouse (utility room I guess). Thank you for transporting me back to those happy halcyon days. 🌸❤️🌸
There is an old story about a woman who goes into used clothing store to pick out wool things but when she took the clothes to the check out the sale person said, you know these are different sizes and the lady said that is okay because I am a hooker ( rug hooker). What a funny story.
I was interested to hear you use the word "hessian" for the loosely-woven ground cloth that we Americans call "burlap". You said that in Part 1. The very next night, I was watching "The Dig", about the excavation of the Sutton Hoo treasure, and Mr. Brown said he would cover over the ship impression with hessian. I was very pleased to know the word. Haven't you noticed that whenever you lean a new word , you find it popping up in another context quite soon after?
This reminds me of my lovely gran. Nothing would be wasted in her house. We lived in Lincolnshire and she was married to an agricultural labourer. She made what we called rag rugs from any worn out fabric including clothing. She made them slightly different to you with a hook that had like a hinged piece over the hook. She would push the bits through the hessian double and then pull them back through the fabric piece to make a sort of knot. ❤❤
What a beautiful range of colours. I was impressed you used wool blankets. My nan and mam taught me to make these back in the 50s here in Ireland. They were always made from the grain sacks that the animal rations came in. Nana used homemade dyes and fixed it with salt. In the 70s we progressed to using cottons or corderoy or whatever we could get really. I still make the odd one for the back room we use during the day when we come off the fields and smaller ones to place by the multi fuel stoves. I love the idea of using wool, it seems quite decadent. Never have I seen wool blankets in the charity shops here, I guess we used them till they fell apart or to cover sick animals. I am looking forward to seeing yours finished.
Love your enthusiasm Kate , love pink and green too , so pleased to see Eileen is still with you, with a pond now ! Thank you for your exciting informative videos 🌺Jeanie 🌺
When people here, Bogue Chitto, Mississippi, USA, make quilts, they have hooks suspended from the ceiling that holds the frame. That way at the end of the day it can be lifted to the ceiling. Kind of like your drying rack above your heater. Then if it takes time to do the quilting it can easily be moved. The quilting frames work just like your frame. You do have to consider any ceiling lights of course. But it doesn’t have to go all the way to the ceiling. Just get things back to normal easily so people can sit or walk around the room. You may already know about this but I just thought it might help. Love you channel so much. ❤️
Currently I’m making quite a shaggy mat for my sons bedroom, using T-shirt’s collected from all my family members. But I clearly remember sitting with my grandma making these out of old overcoats, which my dad would barter with the ragman for. Dad always had an allotment and he would take some of his veg and a bunch of chrysanthemums to the ragmans yard, which was about 3 streets away, then he would get to look through the “rags” for suitable coats. Sometimes he would bring a nice mans shirt home for my mum to make into a dress for me and my sister. The rugs were used to protect the floor from sparks from the fire, and the newest one was used to put at the side of the tin bath, to get out onto.
Hello Kate, I have been looking forward to this all day. I remember in the 50’s, when I was young, helping my mum to make rag rugs, it brought back some happy memories. We did lots of knitting, sewing, upholstery etc... love n hugs Dottie xx
I love that colorway! What a fantastic idea, a muggy matt 👏 Norma looks like she's being rocked to sleep. I love how affectionate she is with you❣ She is quite the beautiful girl! They all are! And Kate, you are lovely too. I so enjoy learning new things with you. Time is well spent in your company!!
My father used to make these. We were from Kent, and he called them rag rugs. Mind, he used no special cloth, just old shirts ,blouses etc. that my brother and I had grown out of. I still have one with me now, in western Canada.It's beside my bed.
While I was watching this and sipping on my caramel macchiato coffee, two beautiful doe walked into my yard and had and afternoon snack on a huge pine bush. They were only there about 10 min. when they heard something that frightened them and off they ran. Such lovely creatures. I have some undeveloped land behind my house, where all kinds of wonderful creatures live.
I loved hearing you say hosepipe. I’m from South Carolina, USA and I say hosepipe and people make fun of me. Most younger folks say garden hose. Love your program. Heard about you from Arne and Carlos. 😀
Happy Sunday Kate! Love watching the process and you are such a good teacher. My husband and I got out first Covid vaccine shots on Friday. Colorado opened up to 65+ and we were lucky enough to get ours the first day. What a relief. We get our second one on March 5th. Take good care and I look forward to seeing you and Norma next week. ♥️xx
I was tearing up watching you and Norma . Thinking about how very much you must miss her companionship. ❤. I have throughly enjoyed watching you make this draft catcher .
Perfect Sunday entertainment here on the lime green sofa....I agree it is a long wait from Sunday to Sunday!! We can hardly wait for next Sunday and part three of your lovely draft dodger AND INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW HEXIE PROJECT on the wall behind you....spectacular colors....you never cease to amaze us! Thank you Kate for such wonderful inspiration. Blessings, Dawn
When I can't wait, I go back and look at one of my old favorites. Sometimes I actually find one I started and didn't get to finish, so it is still new.
Kate, you are just amazing. I'm always impressed with the many projects you take on. I have never seen a "fail" either. Everything comes out with a real purpose. You make my day. Love.
I love watching your RUclips programs. I wanted share how my father made it much easier to quilt my mothers many projects. They lived in a small house and no room to keep a large quilting frame. My father built a large frame and fixed a pulley system that she could raise and lower the quit to and from her living room ceiling when needed.
Kate, as usual, it was so much fun and so peaceful, watching you create such beautiful things. Your Norma is simply adorable and so content to help you with your projects😀. Loving this and eager to watch more.
I wondered what you were going to make, and you sure need it with that gap under the door😱 I just love Norma, she reminds me of our dear cat Jack who looked the spitting image of her, with exactly the mannerisms as well, it's uncanny. He passed away 2 yrs ago aged 19 and he would be my husbands shadow and react to him just like Norma does to you. I have been trying to watch all your previous videos, since I found you through Arne and Carlos, it's great to see how you started and have grown your content. I just love all the different crafts you do. I to love to learn new crafts and techniques From Felicity Nth Cornwall 💚
Aren't cats funny? Norma looked like she was enjoying the gentle rocking motion that was happening as you progged away! Thank you for taking the time to share this with us Kate.x
My aunt used to make proggy mats.They lived on a farm on the A68 north of Hexham, and every winter she would get her frame out. My mother worked in a charity shop and collected the woolen clothes before they went to the ragman , to give to my aunt. My cousin still has some of her lovely mats. So hard wearing! I love your colours. Keep up the good work.
Love the opening with the colour! I do love colour. Oh lord Kate! What have you done? I have a very small space where I am - it’s only 9 x 8 with a bed, a recliner, a shelving unit and small set of bin drawers. So far in this small space, I have my watercolour paints, brushes, paper, pens, etc. I have a couple of pieces of fabric I want to make shirts from, I have two large, as yet untouched, paint by numbers pictures that I got at Christmas, several books I want to read, and some to hear. I have mobility issues, so I have physio equipment here too. I am going to give my bed away to make room for these things (I have no problem sleeping in the recliner) and now I am looking at your porgy mat and thinking, oh, I’d love to do that! I ought to have my head read! Pray for me Kate!
Did you know that ‘to prog’ is a 16th-century verb meaning to poke about for anything. (In more recent language, it has come to be associated with plundering for food).
My parents born in 1924 and 1927 remembered making a new mat every winter. To rotate from best to worst room, as you mentioned. As you say, the whole family joined in. In West Cumberland where they lived, they were called prodded rugs.
I remember my mum making these. As you mentioned, she used old clothes, stockings, woollen socks, actually anything really. The rug was always put in front of the fireplace, which the dog just loved lying on. You have brought back many memories for me, thank you so much. ❤
Norma....she warms my heart so much! Can't help but get the warm fuzzies when she's laying there, eyes all squidgy, enjoying nap time next to mom. Blessings!
🥰💕What a lovely Sunday knitting while watching you work on your rug. Love 💕 the colors you chose. Can’t wait to try it myself. You definitely will be sending me down that rabbit hole. Now I have to collect my fabrics. Ohhh I can’t wait. Thanks Kate lovely day with you. 🥰💕🧶🧵👍👍
Those colours are so beautiful. I'm so looking forward to seeing the finished thing. Thanks to both you and your glam assistant Norma for this very relaxing video 😍
I received my package yesterday . so excited to get started on my journal... With little pieces of love from Kate... Thank you for everything you do .. You are a blessing ..
Kate, this is so wonderful!! Thank you for doing this and having us along to see. My friend used to clean her wool hooked mats in the winter using the snow. She would bring them out on a morning when there was freshly fallen snow. Lay the mat face down on the snow... Leave it for about an hour. Then move it to a fresh area of snow. When the snow under the mats no longer showed signs of dirt, when the mats were lifted she knew they were clean.... And into the house to dry in her furnace room. Have you ever heard of this?
Hi Kate, I have watched this many times. Love it. Love seeing Norma. I miss her always saying hi when you're doing projects. You must miss her too. Love all that you do. Have a blessed day.❤
Thank you for another very enjoyable visit! How is everyone doing who come and spend a few moments with Kate and the rest of us on the Big Lime Sofa? I hope everyone is staying as safe as is possible...enjoy the rest of your day 👍🏻💕👵🏻
My Tiger gets up on everything I'm working on too! I love it! My Mom used to hook rugs. I remember the large frame set up in the kitchen. I still have her rug hook and use it once in a while. I really miss those days. Thanks for sharing Kate and Norma!
The colors are lovely. I have been interested in punch needle rug making. I am glad you set up this lesson, and I like the frame. This rug will definitely keep the air from coming in. It looks like a spring garden. The cat will also enjoy having his own rug. He looks content sitting with you.
My granddaughter, 4 at the time, had a go at this at Gressenhall Workhouse Museum in Norfolk. She wanted to make one for her bedroom, but like a lot of things, we just forgot about it. I’ve got the materials, so now’s a good time have a go. She’s 6 now and as a retired teacher, I can get a history/geography and craft lesson out of this. 😂Probably not on the National Curriculum, but definitely on mine. Thanks for the inspiration . I love the colours and I’m missing my cat, always there in the mix. 💖🙏
Oh Kate!! That rug is going to be so beautiful. I really like the colors - so peaceful. I am always starting something new that catches my eye. I quilt, knit, embroider, crochet, and you inspired me to try my hand at English paper piecing. I have so many starts but eventually do finish something. Now the Proggy Mat is calling me. But I have to stop adding more until I finish more projects. Norma looks so happy sitting there with you. My cat always has to be sitting on my project. Cats are the sweetest friends. Bless you Kate for being my inspiration.
Across the Pond in Nebraska I've made a door "snake" to keep out the north wind . It's a dense woven cotton tube filled with sand and plastic pellets and has a snake shaped head with button eyes and red felt forked tongue. I also attached a door sweep on the outer side of the door. Lots of fun watching you make your proggy mat under Norma's supervision!
I loved watching this on many levels! It reminded me of my mother in law with her proggy rug making but also I was fascinated by the results of your blanket dyeing. Love the chat as well 😃
Me again. I love the way you just work around Norma, I’m the same with my dog , it’s a shame to move them , we love our furry babies so much don’t we xxxx
Hello Kate, in always excited to watch your new videos! Thanks for all the great different crafts you do. I've learned so much love listening to you talk. 😊❤️ Susan, South Carolina US
Im glad Norma came over to help, because that end of the burlap AND the strips might have all floated away if she hadn't held them down. I must say Im amazed that you got those lovely muted colors from the dark green and bright pink dyes! Thanks for taking the trouble to show from underneath. I was dying to see what it looked like!
Never seen this before. It looked so restful just watching you work especially with Norma with you. I must say I chuckled when you said it was a lot of work for a draft stopper. I’d just said that to myself. You had fun 🥰
Winging it is my way to go as well! I get amazing ideas from videos and then seem to jumble them together somehow with my ideas, scratch my head mid way, but praise the Lord, it ‘seams’ to turn out just fine! Thx again Kate! Looking forward to seeing you tonight to bring in the new year! 2024!
The variety of color you got from the three dyes you used is amazing and they are really lovely together. I did some rug hooking as a teen and really enjoyed it. Thanks for bringing this back to mind. I also like how you are using material that might otherwise be thrown away. It’s a good lesson for us. 😊
The colours are beautifully muted and blend together well. I saw a demo at Beamish museum they often used old coats and trousers. I bet all those tweedy shades looked good too. The children would be roped in to cut the clips, the parents rug making.
I needed your smiling face and voice today. The fabrics are spectacular...especially the variety. Winging it is inspiring....I am waiting for summer dye some woolens I received as a donation last carry. Carry on sister....stay healthy and be safe.
Wonderful beautiful colors. I grew up in Manchester and l have not seen it before only rag rugs this is amazing. Thank you so much Kate you're lovely. Stay safe_and happy. Shalom xxxx🌉
It's is such a lovely calming process, and the colours are devine. It would be so lovely to come together as a group to work on such a project. Especially for something like a kitchen tea before someone got married or bought their first home 🏡❤️🐈
That notion of us all coming together to work on any project just thrilled my soul. Wish we could but we would need a football stadium. Guess we will have to settle for the Last Homely House for now. Thanks again Kate, I am going to find some way to make a rug of some kind.
Sweet Norma just happy to spend time with mom and supervising. Kate you both look so content! Your hooky or progy is going to be lovely looking like a spring field. Hello from California I really enjoy your videos. Bonnie
Kate, I’m so sorry to hear about dear Prudence. It never gets any easier. She was a beauty. The rugs look so snuggly. I’m sure the kitties will love it. Blessings❤️🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love the idea of this rug and the mixing of colors, which turned out beautifully by the way. It was mesmerizing watching Norma as she rocked softly with the motion of your work and then ultimately her eyes shut. Such a sweet girl she is. I can hardly wait til next week to see the progress or the finished product. Thank you so much for sharing this craft. Have a Blessed day.
My great aunt and uncle had handmade draft excluders for each of the bedrooms. They were the weighted patchwork animal shapes. As a child I always had to be reminded that they were not toys. 🧸
Thank you, Kate. You always take me out of myself. I did rug hooking using yarn in the ‘70s but yours is going to be magnificent. Almost put my hand to the screen to pet Norma. Have a safe and healthy week.
I enjoyed this as much as the cat did. So relaxing and the choice of music to match. You must really adore your cat to let her just lay there and work around her profile without disturbing her. I think we all wanted to be there to help you. Thank you for sharing.
I made two of what I call "draft dodgers" out of oilcloth wrapped around bubble wrap (curled into a cinnamon stick B shape with a slot in the middle for the width of the door). They work like a charm but are far less beautiful than your sure-to-be-exquisite labor of love. Just the number of dye baths you made! Goodness. That's next level stuff!
I think you should Collett flowers in the middle. Because that’s what it looks like. It is beautiful and I love the Norma is sleeping while you working really hard. Thank you for the tutorial. Someday I’m gonna have to try this.
My Grandmother's door mats looked like the back side of your mat her poker has a hook further up the shaft as she worked with long strips of woolen fabric she used the darkest fabric to follow the out lines of a design that she drew on the base material. The one I liked the best as a child was a design of flowers in bright colours each flower outlined in black I am not sure if the hand crafted rug was made with the hook I described perhaps it wasn't by the time I was old enough to notice she had moved on to making latch hook rugs and used a device that cut the yarn into pieces like the ones you have cut for your draft protector. My dad made latch hook rugs and I have made one myself. He was a quilter too. One could tell his stitches as mum's were toe catchers in the beginning . I have heard that some of the dragon ladies would redo her section if she helped them out at the seniors Hall they were serious about size spacing and uniformity. My grandmother signed her and dad up and paid their dues I think mum and dad weren't seniors as they hadn't reached fifty at the time. With a lot of practice she did improve bur never enough for the dragon ladies! Dad retired early and thirty years ago their favourite pastime was quilt making.mum sewed most of the tops with various patchwork designs. As always once I set out to write a comment I got carried away.😳🤷👍👍👍👍👍👍🖖🖖🖖🖖😊💕💖💞💚💙💜♥️🧡💛❤️🖤💓🙋🏼♀️
When I was a girl, back in the 1950s I watched my aunt crochet rag rugs. She used strips of colorful cotton fabric 1-1.5 inches wide and typically made round or oval rugs. Each one had circles of multiple colors. She died when I was ten and maybe 8-10 years later I saw my mother trying to make one and I immediately said she was doing it wrong. My aunt never taught me but I saw her do it enough to know how to do it. My mother handed me her scraps and said well you do it then. Within maybe two hours I had a new round throw rug using a simple crochet stitch (do you call them stitches?). If you have a lot of strips of cloth left over from your projects it is fun and easy. If you have a larger piece of fabric you can make a long strip by cutting around the outside going around and around. It is fun using lots of colors but I like having enough of one color to make at least one lap around an inch wide or more. Watching you from Georgia USA.
I have seen a different way of doing this using a spring tool. It's worked from the front, you put the spring tool down and under 2/3 threads,then up and open the tools mouth, grab the clip and pull through to half way , so you are working from the top of the rug. I think its called shaggy rag rugging.
I enjoy seeing how Norma loves being near you no matter what it is you are doing...she loves you very much!
We used to have big rugs (not like yours, but also wool) at home when I was a child. To clean them properly, we carried them out when it had just snowed, up them upside down (good side towards the snow). and then we kids got to dance on them, my mum even put on music. Afterwards, you could see the snow gey and dark from dirt where the rug had been....
My friend makes “proddy” mats as we call them round our way in Teesdale. She has a very clever idea whereby she makes a mat with a channel in the middle where there is either no fabric or shorter fabric pieces which you then slide under the door. The mat moves with the door when you open and close it if you can imagine it.
That sounds like a good idea. It saves from moving it out of the way all the time. Very clever.
I've seen the same sort of thing but using pool noodles encased into a fabric outer. Works wonders for her
So very clever.
@@britdowson8324 Hi Brit, isn't Kate wonderful, she always amazes me in that she tackles anything.
Great idea! I'm here thinking that the diameter of Kate's may be too big, and so perhaps won't make adequate contact with the door.... it mightn't exclude the draughts totally. I love the concept, just that all draught excluders I've seen are quite thin.
Oh Kate I love your tenacity and that Norma is a gem🥰
Could also make a narrow Proggy strip, fold it in half and attach to the bottom of the door xx
When l was a young girl(over 70 years ago )l would sit and watch my mother and my granny make colourful rugs to put by the fire,such happy memories. Yours is going to look lovely.🧶
I so enjoy hearing about your daily activities. I am alone and you encourage me. I am starting to find it difficult to do yard work. I love picking up information like setting colors and such. Just thank you...you are my company.
The colours coordinate prefectly with Agnes's hexie quilt!!! Stunning colours. So wonderful to see your Norma🐱💖
watching you working on the mat and watching the cat bounce as you work-makes me think of a hammock, the rocking motion, relaxing.
Thank you so much for sharing. I have a half finished rug that I think I’ll now finish in the autumn. I still have my great Nana’s hand carved prodding tool. As a bairn growing up in the Boro, I remember my nana making these rugs. Her favourite pattern was a diamond grid in black filled in with solid colours. But I do remember her arguing with my great aunt, because aunty Mary preferred the colours mixed in a salt and pepper style , and she’d mixed all the colours up! Mostly as I say they were diamond patterns , but just after the war she made a “Mary Mary quite contrary “ rug for my mams bedroom. Their rugs were made on washed coal sacks with chopped up trousers and jackets. The best rug would be in the bedrooms. As they wore down they were moved into the kitchen (sitting room) then the back kitchen (kitchen) and finally in front of the sink in the outhouse (utility room I guess). Thank you for transporting me back to those happy halcyon days. 🌸❤️🌸
There is an old story about a woman who goes into used clothing store to pick out wool things but when she took the clothes to the check out the sale person said, you know these are different sizes and the lady said that is okay because I am a hooker ( rug hooker). What a funny story.
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Thank you! I needed a laugh!😂
I was interested to hear you use the word "hessian" for the loosely-woven ground cloth that we Americans call "burlap". You said that in Part 1. The very next night, I was watching "The Dig", about the excavation of the Sutton Hoo treasure, and Mr. Brown said he would cover over the ship impression with hessian. I was very pleased to know the word. Haven't you noticed that whenever you lean a new word , you find it popping up in another context quite soon after?
I just watched ‘The Dig’, it was such a wonderful movie! I’m in the U.S., and thought of Kate....do watch it Kate, if you haven’t. Is it near you?
Watched the dig too.... Loved it. Brit living in Tennessee. fascinated by this series of RUclips bids also
Oh my!!! The colors are scrumptious! It is going to be beautiful. Dear Norma. She is so happy to just be there with you.
This reminds me of my lovely gran. Nothing would be wasted in her house. We lived in Lincolnshire and she was married to an agricultural labourer. She made what we called rag rugs from any worn out fabric including clothing. She made them slightly different to you with a hook that had like a hinged piece over the hook. She would push the bits through the hessian double and then pull them back through the fabric piece to make a sort of knot. ❤❤
What a beautiful range of colours. I was impressed you used wool blankets. My nan and mam taught me to make these back in the 50s here in Ireland. They were always made from the grain sacks that the animal rations came in. Nana used homemade dyes and fixed it with salt. In the 70s we progressed to using cottons or corderoy or whatever we could get really. I still make the odd one for the back room we use during the day when we come off the fields and smaller ones to place by the multi fuel stoves. I love the idea of using wool, it seems quite decadent. Never have I seen wool blankets in the charity shops here, I guess we used them till they fell apart or to cover sick animals. I am looking forward to seeing yours finished.
Love your enthusiasm Kate , love pink and green too , so pleased to see Eileen is still with you, with a pond now !
Thank you for your exciting informative videos 🌺Jeanie 🌺
The colors are beautiful together. There is nothing like being under cat supervision. Thank you for sharing.
When people here, Bogue Chitto, Mississippi, USA, make quilts, they have hooks suspended from the ceiling that holds the frame. That way at the end of the day it can be lifted to the ceiling. Kind of like your drying rack above your heater. Then if it takes time to do the quilting it can easily be moved. The quilting frames work just like your frame. You do have to consider any ceiling lights of course. But it doesn’t have to go all the way to the ceiling. Just get things back to normal easily so people can sit or walk around the room. You may already know about this but I just thought it might help. Love you channel so much. ❤️
Currently I’m making quite a shaggy mat for my sons bedroom, using T-shirt’s collected from all my family members. But I clearly remember sitting with my grandma making these out of old overcoats, which my dad would barter with the ragman for. Dad always had an allotment and he would take some of his veg and a bunch of chrysanthemums to the ragmans yard, which was about 3 streets away, then he would get to look through the “rags” for suitable coats. Sometimes he would bring a nice mans shirt home for my mum to make into a dress for me and my sister. The rugs were used to protect the floor from sparks from the fire, and the newest one was used to put at the side of the tin bath, to get out onto.
Hello Kate, I have been looking forward to this all day. I remember in the 50’s, when I was young, helping my mum to make rag rugs, it brought back some happy memories. We did lots of knitting, sewing, upholstery etc... love n hugs Dottie xx
I love Norma looks like she wants to help❤️❤️❤️
You must be so patient with the projects you do!! All your projects take alot of time to complete!! I would get bored and not finish!!❤❤❤
I love that colorway! What a fantastic idea, a muggy matt 👏
Norma looks like she's being rocked to sleep. I love how affectionate she is with you❣ She is quite the beautiful girl! They all are! And Kate, you are lovely too. I so enjoy learning new things with you. Time is well spent in your company!!
Beautiful colors. We are better when we are being creative, aren't we? More complete, settled, and content.
My father used to make these. We were from Kent, and he called them rag rugs. Mind, he used no special cloth, just old shirts ,blouses etc. that my brother and I had grown out of. I still have one with me now, in western Canada.It's beside my bed.
While I was watching this and sipping on my caramel macchiato coffee, two beautiful doe walked into my yard and had and afternoon snack on a huge pine bush. They were only there about 10 min. when they heard something that frightened them and off they ran. Such lovely creatures. I have some undeveloped land behind my house, where all kinds of wonderful creatures live.
Loving the colours & Norma enjoying the bounce of the hessian lulling her to sleep 🥰
I loved hearing you say hosepipe. I’m from South Carolina, USA and I say hosepipe and people make fun of me. Most younger folks say garden hose. Love your program. Heard about you from Arne and Carlos. 😀
Happy Sunday Kate! Love watching the process and you are such a good teacher. My husband and I got out first Covid vaccine shots on Friday. Colorado opened up to 65+ and we were lucky enough to get ours the first day. What a relief. We get our second one on March 5th. Take good care and I look forward to seeing you and Norma next week. ♥️xx
The colours are beautiful . The rug filmed under the frame looks like an impressionist garden.
@Elena Bello: yes, that's what I thought too!
I love how Norma is helping by sitting on your project. Cats do love to be in the middle of everything
I was tearing up watching you and Norma . Thinking about how very much you must miss her companionship. ❤. I have throughly enjoyed watching you make this draft catcher .
Perfect Sunday entertainment here on the lime green sofa....I agree it is a long wait from Sunday to Sunday!! We can hardly wait for next Sunday and part three of your lovely draft dodger AND INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW HEXIE PROJECT on the wall behind you....spectacular colors....you never cease to amaze us! Thank you Kate for such wonderful inspiration. Blessings, Dawn
When I can't wait, I go back and look at one of my old favorites. Sometimes I actually find one I started and didn't get to finish, so it is still new.
Kate, you are just amazing. I'm always impressed with the many projects you take on. I have never seen a "fail" either. Everything comes out with a real purpose. You make my day. Love.
I love watching your RUclips programs. I wanted share how my father made it much easier to quilt my mothers many projects. They lived in a small house and no room to keep a large quilting frame. My father built a large frame and fixed a pulley system that she could raise and lower the quit to and from her living room ceiling when needed.
Kate, as usual, it was so much fun and so peaceful, watching you create such beautiful things. Your Norma is simply adorable and so content to help you with your projects😀. Loving this and eager to watch more.
I wondered what you were going to make, and you sure need it with that gap under the door😱 I just love Norma, she reminds me of our dear cat Jack who looked the spitting image of her, with exactly the mannerisms as well, it's uncanny. He passed away 2 yrs ago aged 19 and he would be my husbands shadow and react to him just like Norma does to you. I have been trying to watch all your previous videos, since I found you through Arne and Carlos, it's great to see how you started and have grown your content. I just love all the different crafts you do. I to love to learn new crafts and techniques From Felicity Nth Cornwall 💚
Aren't cats funny? Norma looked like she was enjoying the gentle rocking motion that was happening as you progged away! Thank you for taking the time to share this with us Kate.x
My aunt used to make proggy mats.They lived on a farm on the A68 north of Hexham, and every winter she would get her frame out. My mother worked in a charity shop and collected the woolen clothes before they went to the ragman , to give to my aunt. My cousin still has some of her lovely mats. So hard wearing! I love your colours. Keep up the good work.
Love the opening with the colour! I do love colour. Oh lord Kate! What have you done? I have a very small space where I am - it’s only 9 x 8 with a bed, a recliner, a shelving unit and small set of bin drawers. So far in this small space, I have my watercolour paints, brushes, paper, pens, etc. I have a couple of pieces of fabric I want to make shirts from, I have two large, as yet untouched, paint by numbers pictures that I got at Christmas, several books I want to read, and some to hear. I have mobility issues, so I have physio equipment here too. I am going to give my bed away to make room for these things (I have no problem sleeping in the recliner) and now I am looking at your porgy mat and thinking, oh, I’d love to do that! I ought to have my head read! Pray for me Kate!
I hope you find a way to make all the things that please you.
@@pamcox8582 Me too!
Sue you can do this without a frame on your lap, that how I do it. 😊
Oh Sue, you did make me chuckle. Good luck with fitting this new craft in your space. Cheers Ellen
@@ellenrose2533 Thanks! Come to think of it, I haven’t tried hanging anything from the ceiling yet...
Did you know that ‘to prog’ is a 16th-century verb meaning to poke about for anything. (In more recent language, it has come to be associated with plundering for food).
My parents born in 1924 and 1927 remembered making a new mat every winter. To rotate from best to worst room, as you mentioned. As you say, the whole family joined in. In West Cumberland where they lived, they were called prodded rugs.
I remember my mum making these. As you mentioned, she used old clothes, stockings, woollen socks, actually anything really.
The rug was always put in front of the fireplace, which the dog just loved lying on. You have brought back many memories for me, thank you so much. ❤
Norma....she warms my heart so much! Can't help but get the warm fuzzies when she's laying there, eyes all squidgy, enjoying nap time next to mom. Blessings!
🥰💕What a lovely Sunday knitting while watching you work on your rug. Love 💕 the colors you chose. Can’t wait to try it myself. You definitely will be sending me down that rabbit hole. Now I have to collect my fabrics. Ohhh I can’t wait. Thanks Kate lovely day with you. 🥰💕🧶🧵👍👍
So very interesting. Good idea for the door, wind blocker, drought stopper👍👍 loved the cat mat idea too.very good.
Kate I love how Norma joined you in this project. We on The Lime Green Sofa got such a warm, comforted feeling. Thank you
So soothing to watch. It reminds me of a spring flower garden. I've latch-hooked in the past but your technique is new to this American. 💙
Arne & Carlos mentioned you in their recent “sit & knit for a bit” episode.
I can see why they like your channel, I’ve subscribed 👍🏻
Those colours are so beautiful. I'm so looking forward to seeing the finished thing. Thanks to both you and your glam assistant Norma for this very relaxing video 😍
What a great project Kate. Norma looks perfectly content overseeing your progress. She is a lovely companion. How special.
I received my package yesterday
. so excited to get started on my journal... With little pieces of love from Kate... Thank you for everything you do .. You are a blessing ..
Kate, this is so wonderful!! Thank you for doing this and having us along to see. My friend used to clean her wool hooked mats in the winter using the snow. She would bring them out on a morning when there was freshly fallen snow. Lay the mat face down on the snow... Leave it for about an hour. Then move it to a fresh area of snow. When the snow under the mats no longer showed signs of dirt, when the mats were lifted she knew they were clean.... And into the house to dry in her furnace room. Have you ever heard of this?
love how Norma sat and looked at us She reminded me of my dearly departed Max :-( so warm and serene. Thank you for sharing this. Lovely video.
Hi Kate, I have watched this many times. Love it. Love seeing Norma. I miss her always saying hi when you're doing projects. You must miss her too. Love all that you do. Have a blessed day.❤
Thank you for another very enjoyable visit! How is everyone doing who come and spend a few moments with Kate and the rest of us on the Big Lime Sofa? I hope everyone is staying as safe as is possible...enjoy the rest of your day 👍🏻💕👵🏻
My Tiger gets up on everything I'm working on too! I love it! My Mom used to hook rugs. I remember the large frame set up in the kitchen. I still have her rug hook and use it once in a while. I really miss those days. Thanks for sharing Kate and Norma!
The colors are lovely. I have been interested in punch needle rug making. I am glad you set up this lesson, and I like the frame. This rug will definitely keep the air from coming in. It looks like a spring garden. The cat will also enjoy having his own rug. He looks content sitting with you.
I just love the shade of your colours, Kate...they are totally beautiful🙂🙂🙂😍👍
My granddaughter, 4 at the time, had a go at this at Gressenhall Workhouse Museum in Norfolk. She wanted to make one for her bedroom, but like a lot of things, we just forgot about it. I’ve got the materials, so now’s a good time have a go. She’s 6 now and as a retired teacher, I can get a history/geography and craft lesson out of this. 😂Probably not on the National Curriculum, but definitely on mine. Thanks for the inspiration . I love the colours and I’m missing my cat, always there in the mix. 💖🙏
Oh Kate!! That rug is going to be so beautiful. I really like the colors - so peaceful. I am always starting something new that catches my eye. I quilt, knit, embroider, crochet, and you inspired me to try my hand at English paper piecing. I have so many starts but eventually do finish something. Now the Proggy Mat is calling me. But I have to stop adding more until I finish more projects. Norma looks so happy sitting there with you. My cat always has to be sitting on my project. Cats are the sweetest friends. Bless you Kate for being my inspiration.
Across the Pond in Nebraska I've made a door "snake" to keep out the north wind . It's a dense woven cotton tube filled with sand and plastic pellets and has a snake shaped head with button eyes and red felt forked tongue. I also attached a door sweep on the outer side of the door. Lots of fun watching you make your proggy mat under Norma's supervision!
I loved watching this on many levels! It reminded me of my mother in law with her proggy rug making but also I was fascinated by the results of your blanket dyeing. Love the chat as well 😃
What a cool door draft! Norma really loves you! Happy that she is helping you make the Proddy door draft dodger!
This is going tp beautiful! I love the way Norma keeps a watchful eye on your work.❤❤❤❤
So Kate, if you make a windowsill mat for all the cat's, would it be a "moggy mat"???😸😸😸😸❤️
Norma looks the essence of content and comfort with her favourite person.
Watching you work does the same for me🤗
Me again.
I love the way you just work around Norma, I’m the same with my dog , it’s a shame to move them , we love our furry babies so much don’t we xxxx
Oh it's finished. I could have watched all day. So lovely. Hugs to Norma
Hello Kate, in always excited to watch your new videos! Thanks for all the great different crafts you do. I've learned so much love listening to you talk. 😊❤️
Susan, South Carolina US
I always look forward to your videos. It's like visiting with an old friend who has lots to chat about. Hugs....Kate from the U.S.
Im glad Norma came over to help, because that end of the burlap AND the strips might have all floated away if she hadn't held them down. I must say Im amazed that you got those lovely muted colors from the dark green and bright pink dyes! Thanks for taking the trouble to show from underneath. I was dying to see what it looked like!
In the past I’ve hooked rugs and loved doing them. This is an interesting way to make a rug. Thank you for showing us a different way to make a rug.
Norma is also hard at work quality testing your fabrics. Mr Tigs approves. Blessings from Oregon.
You are so incredibly creative. The colors are beautiful. Great job and Norma is such a good helper.
"Portable this task is not" cheeky smile, Love her!
Never seen this before. It looked so restful just watching you work especially with Norma with you. I must say I chuckled when you said it was a lot of work for a draft stopper. I’d just said that to myself.
You had fun 🥰
Winging it is my way to go as well! I get amazing ideas from videos and then seem to jumble them together somehow with my ideas, scratch my head mid way, but praise the Lord, it ‘seams’ to turn out just fine! Thx again Kate! Looking forward to seeing you tonight to bring in the new year! 2024!
Oh Norma! How you like to “help” 🤣❤️ Thoroughly enjoyed watching how you make the rug Kate. So simple but so beautiful and practical. Thank you xxx
What a terrific project. Sweet Norma...precious kitty.
The variety of color you got from the three dyes you used is amazing and they are really lovely together. I did some rug hooking as a teen and really enjoyed it. Thanks for bringing this back to mind. I also like how you are using material that might otherwise be thrown away. It’s a good lesson for us. 😊
The colours are beautifully muted and blend together well. I saw a demo at Beamish museum they often used old coats and trousers. I bet all those tweedy shades looked good too. The children would be roped in to cut the clips, the parents rug making.
That basket of colours speaks to my soul ❤💙💚💛🧡💜
I needed your smiling face and voice today. The fabrics are spectacular...especially the variety. Winging it is inspiring....I am waiting for summer dye some woolens I received as a donation last carry. Carry on sister....stay healthy and be safe.
Wonderful beautiful colors. I grew up in Manchester and l have not seen it before only rag rugs this is amazing. Thank you so much Kate you're lovely. Stay safe_and happy. Shalom xxxx🌉
Lovely Norma by your side keeping you company such a sweetheart...
Your videos are very enjoyable to watch. I love your accent. Your work is beautiful. Thank you for sharing your talent.
It's is such a lovely calming process, and the colours are devine. It would be so lovely to come together as a group to work on such a project. Especially for something like a kitchen tea before someone got married or bought their first home 🏡❤️🐈
That notion of us all coming together to work on any project just thrilled my soul. Wish we could but we would need a football stadium. Guess we will have to settle for the Last Homely House for now. Thanks again Kate, I am going to find some way to make a rug of some kind.
Sweet Norma just happy to spend time with mom and supervising. Kate you both look so content! Your hooky or progy is going to be lovely looking like a spring field. Hello from California I really enjoy your videos. Bonnie
Kate, I’m so sorry to hear about dear Prudence. It never gets any easier. She was a beauty. The rugs look so snuggly. I’m sure the kitties will love it. Blessings❤️🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love the idea of this rug and the mixing of colors, which turned out beautifully by the way. It was mesmerizing watching Norma as she rocked softly with the motion of your work and then ultimately her eyes shut. Such a sweet girl she is. I can hardly wait til next week to see the progress or the finished product. Thank you so much for sharing this craft. Have a Blessed day.
My great aunt and uncle had handmade draft excluders for each of the bedrooms. They were the weighted patchwork animal shapes. As a child I always had to be reminded that they were not toys. 🧸
Thank you, Kate. You always take me out of myself. I did rug hooking using yarn in the ‘70s but yours is going to be magnificent. Almost put my hand to the screen to pet Norma. Have a safe and healthy week.
I enjoyed this as much as the cat did. So relaxing and the choice of music to match. You must really adore your cat to let her just lay there and work around her profile without disturbing her. I think we all wanted to be there to help you. Thank you for sharing.
Making a cat bed, it already looks like Norma has found her bed, and it’s very comfy
Oh, how wonderful Kate! I always learn something from you :) sweet Norma is never far :) she's such a love... Thank you for sharing.
I made two of what I call "draft dodgers" out of oilcloth wrapped around bubble wrap (curled into a cinnamon stick B shape with a slot in the middle for the width of the door). They work like a charm but are far less beautiful than your sure-to-be-exquisite labor of love. Just the number of dye baths you made! Goodness. That's next level stuff!
I think you should Collett flowers in the middle. Because that’s what it looks like. It is beautiful and I love the Norma is sleeping while you working really hard. Thank you for the tutorial. Someday I’m gonna have to try this.
My Grandmother's door mats looked like the back side of your mat her poker has a hook further up the shaft as she worked with long strips of woolen fabric she used the darkest fabric to follow the out lines of a design that she drew on the base material. The one I liked the best as a child was a design of flowers in bright colours each flower outlined in black I am not sure if the hand crafted rug was made with the hook I described perhaps it wasn't by the time I was old enough to notice she had moved on to making latch hook rugs and used a device that cut the yarn into pieces like the ones you have cut for your draft protector. My dad made latch hook rugs and I have made one myself. He was a quilter too. One could tell his stitches as mum's were toe catchers in the beginning . I have heard that some of the dragon ladies would redo her section if she helped them out at the seniors Hall they were serious about size spacing and uniformity. My grandmother signed her and dad up and paid their dues I think mum and dad weren't seniors as they hadn't reached fifty at the time. With a lot of practice she did improve bur never enough for the dragon ladies! Dad retired early and thirty years ago their favourite pastime was quilt making.mum sewed most of the tops with various patchwork designs. As always once I set out to write a comment I got carried away.😳🤷👍👍👍👍👍👍🖖🖖🖖🖖😊💕💖💞💚💙💜♥️🧡💛❤️🖤💓🙋🏼♀️