Me too. Haven’t watched tv in years. Kate is so real and entertaining. Plus I always seem to learn something….even if it’s just how to be comfortable in my own skin. Very important stuff!🦋
Fortunately I packed my newly purchased TV back in the box and put it safely almost 5 years back. I increased my life time. I am happy. Don’t miss it at all. Thanks 🙏
my mom made hand-braided rugs, from wool coats cut into 3" strips sewn into long rolls. She hand-did everything, stitching the braids into rounds or ovals as she went. She started when her young husband was drafted into the Navy during WWII and continued through the Vietnam War, when my brother spent 3 years there. She said it got her "through" those awfully tough times.
I'm from Canada, and we would call the base material jute or gunny sack. I have a coffee bag, that coffee beans came in. My Grandmother made lovely rugs. Our 2nd hand stores sell the blankets for much more. Boy scouts and girl scouts make ponchos out of the wool blankets because wool does not flame up if a spark hits it. Many of us still "make our beds."
My great aunt from North Carolina USA used to bring yards of fabric to my grandmother in Charleston SC, remnants that she had gotten for practically nothing from the textile mills in her area. My grandmother was a professional seamstress, and she would make blankets out of the woolen fabric and give them to family and friends. She sewed blanket binding around the edge of all of them. I'm still using one that she gave to my mother back in the 1950s. It's a red and navy blue plaid, and the colors are still vibrant. The blanket looks and feels like wool, but it is washable so in the washer and dryer it goes. The colors really perked up when I started using Gain laundry detergent a year ago. My great aunt's daughter and I stay in touch, and she still has several of the blankets her mother made from the mill fabrics, including baby blankets.
I found you in 2024. I am glad, I did. Your videos are peaceful, mindful, interesting and soothing. Although most of the projects are far too big and heavy as this one. But I can always do the smaller projects. And to do something or the other is my year long practice. I find it very satisfactory. And my day seems full with at least one or two things done per day. And you all are a great inspiration for us. First it was my mother. My first teacher. She was great in handwork, knitting, stitching and embroidery. She passed away last December 2023, at the age of 91. Knitted 5-6 caps on my request for her great grand children. I wanted to keep her busy with something. So, she felt very happy and her great grand children also. Thanks so much ❤🙏
I do not know exactly when you're birthday is, but i think about this time. So Happy Birthday tot you! Enjoy it as much as you can! I wish you the best! Here in Belgium we say they 'Gelukkige Verjaardag ' and we the person 3 kisses. So here are my 3 kisses for you! 😘😘😘
There's a similar tradition in Newfoundland and Labrador for making and replacing rugs like the ones you call hooky, worked with long strips of cloth, held underneath the work and hooked up from the top. The wool came mostly from fishemen's shirts. With lots of colours available, the rugs often had elaborate village scenes and seascapes. The newest one is kept rolled up under the couch for when the vicar or mayor visits. The next-best is the everyday rug in the living room. The third-best goes in the bedroom, the fourth-best into the kitchen, and the fifth-best out the back door, where the salt water would bleach out the colour and pretty much compost it in place. I've just recently found your channel and love it!
This reminds me, My kids went to a day care when they were very young. The lady that ran the day care ( in her house ) make this type of carpet with scraps of denim. The more you washed it the better it got with all the fraying. It was on the floor for the kids to sit on and play or watch a movie. Very large round one. BUT she would sew the pieces on the bottom material.
I remember telling my mum about how I had seen some rag rugs (that's what she called them) for sale in a very chi chi shop in Hebden bridge for over a hundred pounds. She was appalled and said would not have such a thing in the house if you twisted her arm as it represented the very poor surroundings she had grown up in as a child. Rag rugs were what poor people had and she never wanted to be reminded about those times. I once asked her what her most abiding memory of her childhood was and I felt very sad when she said " feeling hungry all the time"
Yes. We tend to forget some had a hard life when growing up. My dad the same. Hungry. Did well for himself but never got over his childhood. Food i thought spoilt he would say there was nothing wrong with it.
My mom was the same about anything used or old, even lovely antiques. She also thought it represented being poor as she grew up without a dad when he died when she was only six leaving his wife alone with 4 children to support in the 1930’s. When I was first married. I was going to buy a beautiful antique bedroom set and she would not allow it. She couldn’t fathom buying something old that had belonged fed to “who knows who” when I could perfectly afford something new and modern. Oh and she hated quilts too. Guess what...I am an avid quilter. Lol. Oh well. Guess I was born in the wrong century. Happy belated birthday Kate
I am so glad most of us will never know what it is like to be hungry. We are so lucky. My own father was in a Russian labour camp during WW2 and never ate well for over a year. He always drummed into us never to waste food and even to this day, I too hate to see people waste food. We do not know how lucky we are.
THAT STAINED GLASS WINDOW IS OUT OF THIS WORLD! OH, GORGEOUS! YOUR HOUSE IS UNBELIEVABLE! PLEASE TELL US ANOUT THE WINDOW! ALSO YOUR FLOWERS ARE WORTH PAYING TO SEE!!! THE YARD AND GARDEN ARE NO DOUBT THE FINEST EYE SALVE / HEART & SPIRIT LIFTER!!! LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR CATS AND TO ALL!!!
I just start Kate and let it play, back to back! Crocheting 😊. Listening puts me in such a productive positive and happy mood❤ Thanks Kate, Anna and cats!
This has taken me back and reminded me of my mother in law who used to make Hooky and Proggy rugs in Cornwall. I have a bundle of her craft tools so suspect her rug making tools are in there. I'd love to have a go!
I enjoy each episode so very much! I love your colors, your sense of humor, your "give it a go" attitude. Even my 34 yo daughter said your voice is so calm and makes her relax. I agree!!
my grandmother would use the wool from worn out suits. She washed the suits to shrink them. Then she trimmed out the worn out spots. Then she used what was left to make rugs by various means.
I found you after lock down. I'm sure you filled hours and hours of otherwise difficult time and turned it into a glad time for so many. Thank you ever so much for your videos ❤
😭😭😭No, I wanted you to keep going. I could watch you for hours when you do this kind of thing. As always Kate you are a balm for the soul listening to you.💚
My mum taught me how to hook rugs and make rugs sewing long coils of scrap twists of fabric. She grew up in Leeds. She is gone now and due to covid I wasnt able to rescue so many of her things. The sight of those wool blankets with the labels brought tears to my eyes. I know there were several in the airing cupboard.
Chat amongst yourselves. My favorite thing you've ever said, dear kate! I'm catching up on your back catalog. Your videos are so warm and soothing. Thanks ever so very much for all of the work that goes into them.
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU DEAR SWEET LADY! You are now the dearest friend i have that I’ve never really met! Your RUclips videos are so friendly and calming and happy during this awful time of quarantine! So thank you so much for being across the ocean and across the internet. I’m in Alabama, USA.❤️
Kate, your flowers are so beautiful - I hope you had a wonderful birthday. Your "not a tutorials" have taught me more than most other people's actual tutorials.
Sigh I must be old fashioned because I look for those old blankets to use on my bed... nice to see that there is a use for the ones that have gotten torn up.
Happy Belated birthday Kate ! I just wanted to say that I would be so sad if I couldn't watch your videos. I am sure everyone on the lime green sofa would agree with me. You probably don't realise how much " the last lonely house " motivates our inner craft" 😉, and especially when you take us outside for a walk around the garden or lake. Dont change a thing Kate ❤🌞
This brought back memories of the rug in my grandmother's house. As most things that belonged to my grandmother is was old and very worn, so after she passed it was not kept. It was just the width of the doorway. But I remember it being a dark background with a simple house in the middle and I think a couple of trees with a cat in front of the house. I loved to look at it and thought it was the most clever thing.
Both of my parents were in the Army in WWII, Dad in England, Mom in France. Needless to say that as a kid my bed was made with scratchy old Army surplus wool blankets. I'd've been a happier (but chillier) youngster if my mom had made rugs. 😅 Chatting amongst the LGS sitters: If anyone's trying to find cheap burlap, I got free burlap sacks at the local coffee roasters.
I remember those blankets, were they plain with stripes across the top end , and sheets made of twill, mum bought them by the yard and hemmed them top and bottom, very rough.
@@Laura55sere I don't recall if there were stripes, only that they were green. Ma would sew a wide binding that gave at least a bit of relief from the itch and scratch. I remember that our sheets were white percale. One of my first chores as a youngster was ironing them.
@@Hiker_who_Sews I still have a green army blanket, I can't bear to get rid of it. I have slowly given away all my extra blankets to people that needed them but I guess that dark army blanket has too many memoriea
I love my wool blankets. I have a beautiful blue floral vintage one and an authentic Hudson Bay with the beautiful stripes. I use them all winter. I like the weight and warmth they provide.
Well I just want yo come over and play. Just told my husband howuch I like your house. So comfy. Colorful. I love color. I have stuff. Sadly I'm constantly trying to find my working space. Flat spaces get covered quickly. Winston Salem, NC, USA
Oh my.... I'm beyond thrilled ... my grandmother hooked rugs n I have her frames... I learned but have not picked up her hooks in years... I guess I should soon as I am now retired... I will look forward to your next part... thank you... blessings
I was a delight to see you get a bit frustrated but yet amazingly calm and sensible anyways! If I had a direct phone line to one of the angels who hover over Scandinavia and Britian, I'd ask her to grab Arne from Norway, where he is actually all alone just now. Yes, I would pick him up by the scruff of his Norwegian sweater and lift him to play photographer for the afternoon for you. . I'd lift him back to Norway just in time to give Freya her supper.
Hi Kate I’m new to your channel, thanks to a dear friend. I also make quilts and hooked and proddy rugs which is what they’re called down here in beautiful Cornwall. I’m really enjoying all of your videos, thank you. I went to Beamish last year and it was fabulous and in one of the cottages a lady was making a Proddy/Proggy rug and encouraging people to have a go. I really enjoy your relationship with Anna. Blessings to you all x
Traditionally rag rugs were made over the year and the new rug would be put down on Christmas eve. Old rugs would be used in bedrooms where they couldn't be seen by the neighbours. The rugs were warmer than the lino flooring.
Kate: So sorry I missed your birthday!!! Please accept my very happy belated birthday wishes. I look forward so much to your posts and have for the last year or so. I consider you as my 'friend across the pond". You are a delight, unique, funny, creative, and just you. Thanks Kate.
Belated happy birthday, kate!! BTW, I still use those old time wool blankets. For my beds and for cat beds. Real wool blankets are almost indestructible and absolute treasures.
@@Wyldhare47 Yes, love me a wool blanket. Before I retired, I would take a half size wool blanket with me in the morning to wrap around my lap and legs (to mid calf) to keep my warm until the car warmed up on the drive to work. And then I would take it into the office with me for the same reason cuz the office (the whole building really) would be cold until about 10 or 11 am (maybe later on a Monday). People would ask me why I brought and gave me a raised eyebrow look when I explained, but the laugh was on them ...... I was warm when they were not.
Gosh this brings back memories! 10 years ago while waiting for our previous house to sell, I was dying these blankets with all natural colours and made a rug and a chair pad out of it all!
I am loving having your company! I am a recently retired widow living alone in Atlanta, Georgia US. You inspired me to make a small curtain panel. I tried to hashtag you in Instagram, but didn't do it right..I'll figure it out for next time.
In the U.S., duvets are not the norm. We still use a flat sheet, fitted sheet, blanket, quilt or bedspread, or comforter. When we visited my Yorkshire Yorkshire penpal (pre-covid) we weren't sure how to maneuver the bedding as she had a duvet which we weren't familiar with! Too funny! On the Vermont Country Store website you can find gorgeous proper blankets and bedspreads. Love visiting your home albeit virtually
Hello, from a very cold South Africa. I have been watching your video's because we are in covid lock down again. Found your channel so relaxing and interesting. Family are having to feed themselves and make to their own tea. All stay well and safe. Cheers
A belated Happy Birthday, Kate! 🎂💜 My grandfather was a metallurgist, and he and my grandmother emigrated to Montréal, Quebec from England after WWI. I remember-xas a child in the 60s-sharing a bed with my older sister at my grandparents’ house . There was what I always thought of as a ‘rag rug’ on my side of the bed. I now realise that it was a ‘proggy mat’. It was quite shaggy, and I believe it was made of random 6” strips of blue and grey wool-likely from men’s suits as you suggested. Although it is difficult for me to imagine my rather staunch grandmother doing any sort of handwork, she must have been quite adept at it at some point. She had a loom (8 feet?) in one of the upstairs bedrooms, and my mother said that my grandmother used to weave linen towels on it. As the youngest grandchild, I’m sure I missed out on some of my grandmother’s more active years. Perhaps if I was born a few years earlier, she might have taught me to weave. I found out years later that my aunt ‘loaned’ the loom to a neighbour in Toronto, and that was the last that was seen of the loom.
Thank you that was very interesting. I have an old rug frame which I was going to sell on however I might keep it and have a go at making a rug myself.
I’ve just discovered your site , I saw that you had made a comment on Laura from the Bruderhof video, it was the name of your site that caught my eye so I had to go and have a look. I am so glad I did because I have spent most of the day watching your videos. You are so easy to watch, so interesting and so talented, I have thoroughly enjoyed watching your videos ( so much more enjoyable than TV) and look forward to catching up with them all. You are such a natural on the camera and you have fantastic editing skills too - you are very clever. Thank you so much for doing these videos and sharing your life with us. Felicity from near Liverpool.💐💐💐💐
This is the Mary half of Michael and Mary😀. Happy belated birthday, Kate! I so enjoy watching your sweet videos. I am keeping my fingers crossed and I’m going to go looking for some 4-leafed clovers that my sis and I can it back to England soon. We’ll be staying with friends in Derby and would love to visit the Lake District. We ran out of time the last time we were there. We’ve both had shot #1 of the COVID vaccine and will be getting the other one toward the end of February. We’ll just have to wait and see when travel will be allowed again. State of Georgia here and the little town of Richmond Hill is where we live. Just a suburb of Savannah actually. I hope your birthday was happy and fun, and I hope all of your birthday wishes came true!
Hi Kate and everyone here! Happy belated birthday, best wishes to you and your loved ones, both the two and four-legged kind. I haven't watched much since new year's; kind of a lot going on here in the states... a bit worrisome at times. It feels really good to get back here. I am wondering where Norma is... so used to seeing her walking around looking for a comfy place center stage. I hope she is doing well and everyone else, too!! Many thanks and much love!! Susan from S. California 💚🐾💙☮
Kate, you are a treasure and a true inspiration! When I grow up I want to be just like you! I’m sure I’ve already surpassed you in age but not in kindness. Having been a widow these past 20 years has really taught me a lot, mostly that I am capable and can do things on my own but not alone! God bless you.
Greetings from California and a Very Happy Belated Birthday Wish for you Kate. 🎂 🥳 It is always a joy to spend time at the Last Homely House taking in your endless inspiration. You're heartfelt positivity is infectious and desperately needed during these challenging times. You are making a difference in many lives. Blessings of good health to you and your family.
Thank you Kate. Have gone to Patreon and started to figure that out. Good that you've sat us down and talked about the pennies... its important to sort these things out 👍
My granny was born in England in 1895. She made rag rugs and before she passed gave one to all of her grand kids. She designed them herself. I cherish mine it’s an eggplant. Here in Canada they call it Canadiana rug hooking. My local college offered it as a night course in 1979. I still have the cushion I made.
I had no idea you had a birthday dear Kate - Happy belated birthday. Seeing you struggle with your frame brought back memories when I made my own quilting frame using plastic pipes and screwing tape onto it to fix the quilt onto it. I think it was 2.5 metres long and like you, I wrestled with it! Such frustrating struggling on one's own. I am really going to enjoy seeing you do this rug.
Enjoy your channel very much. You’ve inspired me to my first little test of English paper piecing since I tried once at age 22, I’m the same age as you.The little runner from that time I still have. Your wood burning stove is the same as we’ve had in our mountain cabin since I was three. Have a great week and take care,
I'm in the "don't like duvet" camp. My dad put one on my bed in England for when I visited and I absolutely hated it. It was always falling off the bed and the bed looked so untidy when it was made. I sleep under just a sheet but make the bed with a quilt and shams (made by me) which looks so much tidier. I guess I'm old fashioned. When I was a little girl in England (late forties/early fifties) we had a rag rug just inside our front door (and there was a recess in the floor for it to fit in!) made out of a potato sack and using strips of wool from old suits, coats and dresses. My grandmother had one too so I suppose she and my mother made them. They were latch hooked. Happy belated birthday, Kate.
A set of bright orange wool blankets was our wedding present from my Mum an d Dad 45 years ago. It was the thing then. I still have them and was thinking this would be ideal Mum would approve if she was here. I was laughing when you said Martha use to sit in that clip on chair my son had one also but i dont think either of them would fit in it now ha ha ha. He being 42 . I hope you had a very happy birthday
... as distinct from latch-hook rugs which were very posh. My Nan taught me latch-hook and hooky rug making, and her sister (my great aunt) taught me proggy rug making. Both were done with long fabric strips. The tools are different and whether you work from the back or the front varies. I spent my early years in a village just out of Sunderland and all the Nana's made these. They were made in wool because they were hearth rugs and wool wouldn't flare if embers dropped.
I love a wool blanket. It's cold and damp where I live, but most houses in northern California don't have central heat. So wool blankets are wonderful. I'm not sure who decided we should be cold during our rainy winters, but there it is.
Hi Kate :) When I read the title, I thought, proggy....hmmmm... :) what fun! I'm excited to see the colors and what you're making! I've heard the term proddy rug before, but this is the first time I've heard proggy. I love the history you shared. Nothing went to waste. Wish we still lived in a world that was that frugal! My grandma always said, "waste not, want not." So true. I love wool blankets and very fortunate to have a couple from military hospitals used during the first world war. I picked them up one day at a flea market. They were $10.00 each! No holes or stains! I use them and they're perfect. As always, thank you for sharing all your wonderful adventures with me. Take care :)
lovely, lovely, lovely to see you today. I’ll be very interested in your project. Nice to see Anna and John at the end, they are such beautiful and kind hearted folks. Say hi to them from me. René Deerheart 🦌💌❤️📚🧶🍫☕️🇨🇦🍪👑🐱🐕🌈🧀🥐🍎🍿🍫🍫🍫☕️☕️☕️🧘🏼🚙🏕🌌🧱🛠🪚🪓🛌📚💜
How fabulous to see Rag Rugging was the subject of today's video as I had seen the mat on Kate's kitchen wall and decided that I must get back to making another. I made one at a Heather Ritchie class at Higham Hall nr Cockermouth in the Lake District. But I won't be trying to get blanket or dyeing anything as I will be using up old clothes and the Hooky method that makes loops. You can use anything ...old clothes including Tshirts and thin jersey fabric!, modern knits ie cardigans and jumpers, old coats, mens jackets., sweatshirt and fleece tops or jackets Nothing that will shred like a towel or hand knit. Unravel your hand knits and reknit or crochet into lap blankets. Literally anything...even plastic bags (not the biodegradable ones tho) and bread bags. It was once like patchwork made from whatever people had not new fabric. Am doing the same for my English paper piecing and Log Cabin quilts. ..as my fabric stash is mainly old clothes that I love but wouldn't sell in a charity shop and I can't stand the thought of landfill. I am not even going to bother if the reclaimed fabrics are old or new...got some clothes never even worn! Hiw wasteful is that? Traditionally you wouldn't mix old and new as the new fibres would pull the old but as its going to be machine quilted and on wadding or a filler if can find an old blanket. ...it will stabilise it s and if not it can be patched or mended Boro/Darning style. After all its just 'patched' work. I find it so ironic and very sad that so much new fsbric is constantly being produced whilst we discard the old but still very useful stuff. I do have some new fabric but can't bear to throw out the old beautiful found/reclaimed fabrics I see in my clothes that no longer fit when am trying to declutter. Why should the planet have to deal with my excess stuff?
I really enjoyed the 1st half of this video and looking forward to the next part. Thank you Kate for taking the time and trouble to share your talents.
Thanks for sharing this. I've always been a bit "put off" with the need for a frame, so I use a kind of crochet hook with an eye on the end where I attach some string, cord, wool etc. The idea is to "loop" and "secure" the strips as you go, I've made a lovely rug this way, and I am going to put a photo of it on the FB page. I love what you've done though, and I've just gone into the outhouse to check my stash of wool dyes! It's called a locker hook FYI. I also found (in the aforesaid outhouse) a pile of hessian we used for centre "runners" for my daughter's wedding tables. I knew if I kept it, I'd find a use for it!!!!!!! xxxx
My late mother had a frame for making proddy mats and I remember as a child helping her to make a little rug. We were a mining family from Bishop Auckland/Shildon in County Durham. She could turn her hand to anything and would make all sorts of things. Happy days. when clearing her house I made the mistake of letting it go. Mind you I don't think I would get round to making one!
my grandmother used to make proddy & hooky mats, usuly they were about 6ft x 4ft , & had a black border, the border maybe about 6" wide, then with a red diamond in the middle with all 4 points of the diamond touching the black border, then the 4 triangular parts would be a mixture of colour,s, they were lovely, placed in front of the kitchen range fireplace,
Sensible Kate, i am a 'rug hooker', in Connecticut, usa. I finished a 7' x 9' hooked rug ( orininal design), after 12 years. Cot # 6 ?, on a "cutter", hooked on ' hooking' linen with wool dyed by various hand dyers here in New England. My son posted a picture quite
I don't watch television anymore, I watch Kate's videos and often finishing some of my own crafts.
I gave up tv too. It is too vile for me. I felt my brain cells dying off.
I have only found these beautiful fascinating programs. I don’t have time for anything 😂 anymore Wonderful
Me too. Haven’t watched tv in years. Kate is so real and entertaining. Plus I always seem to learn something….even if it’s just how to be comfortable in my own skin. Very important stuff!🦋
Fortunately I packed my newly purchased TV back in the box and put it safely almost 5 years back. I increased my life time. I am happy. Don’t miss it at all. Thanks 🙏
my mom made hand-braided rugs, from wool coats cut into 3" strips sewn into long rolls. She hand-did everything, stitching the braids into rounds or ovals as she went. She started when her young husband was drafted into the Navy during WWII and continued through the Vietnam War, when my brother spent 3 years there. She said it got her "through" those awfully tough times.
I'm from Canada, and we would call the base material jute or gunny sack. I have a coffee bag, that coffee beans came in. My Grandmother made lovely rugs. Our 2nd hand stores sell the blankets for much more. Boy scouts and girl scouts make ponchos out of the wool blankets because wool does not flame up if a spark hits it. Many of us still "make our beds."
My great aunt from North Carolina USA used to bring yards of fabric to my grandmother in Charleston SC, remnants that she had gotten for practically nothing from the textile mills in her area. My grandmother was a professional seamstress, and she would make blankets out of the woolen fabric and give them to family and friends. She sewed blanket binding around the edge of all of them.
I'm still using one that she gave to my mother back in the 1950s. It's a red and navy blue plaid, and the colors are still vibrant. The blanket looks and feels like wool, but it is washable so in the washer and dryer it goes. The colors really perked up when I started using Gain laundry detergent a year ago.
My great aunt's daughter and I stay in touch, and she still has several of the blankets her mother made from the mill fabrics, including baby blankets.
I found you in 2024. I am glad, I did. Your videos are peaceful, mindful, interesting and soothing. Although most of the projects are far too big and heavy as this one. But I can always do the smaller projects. And to do something or the other is my year long practice. I find it very satisfactory. And my day seems full with at least one or two things done per day. And you all are a great inspiration for us. First it was my mother. My first teacher. She was great in handwork, knitting, stitching and embroidery. She passed away last December 2023, at the age of 91. Knitted 5-6 caps on my request for her great grand children. I wanted to keep her busy with something. So, she felt very happy and her great grand children also. Thanks so much ❤🙏
I absolutely love watching your vids. If I’m sad I watch Kate for a pick me up. 😊
Ann! I feel the same way!
Happy day now 😊
Michelle USA Wisconsin
There is nothing more enjoyable than to make a cup of tea on a cold Sunday afternoon and watch Kate’s videos.
Definitely agree with that 😀
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Me too!
Yes love to watch ...from usa
I love rag rugs and hooked rugs. We used to do crochet rugs for a charity.
I just found you about a month ago. You’re my people!
I do not know exactly when you're birthday is, but i think about this time. So Happy Birthday tot you! Enjoy it as much as you can!
I wish you the best!
Here in Belgium we say they 'Gelukkige Verjaardag ' and we the person 3 kisses.
So here are my 3 kisses for you! 😘😘😘
There's a similar tradition in Newfoundland and Labrador for making and replacing rugs like the ones you call hooky, worked with long strips of cloth, held underneath the work and hooked up from the top. The wool came mostly from fishemen's shirts. With lots of colours available, the rugs often had elaborate village scenes and seascapes. The newest one is kept rolled up under the couch for when the vicar or mayor visits. The next-best is the everyday rug in the living room. The third-best goes in the bedroom, the fourth-best into the kitchen, and the fifth-best out the back door, where the salt water would bleach out the colour and pretty much compost it in place. I've just recently found your channel and love it!
This reminds me, My kids went to a day care when they were very young. The lady that ran the day care ( in her house ) make this type of carpet with scraps of denim. The more you washed it the better it got with all the fraying. It was on the floor for the kids to sit on and play or watch a movie. Very large round one. BUT she would sew the pieces on the bottom material.
I remember telling my mum about how I had seen some rag rugs (that's what she called them) for sale in a very chi chi shop in Hebden bridge for over a hundred pounds. She was appalled and said would not have such a thing in the house if you twisted her arm as it represented the very poor surroundings she had grown up in as a child. Rag rugs were what poor people had and she never wanted to be reminded about those times. I once asked her what her most abiding memory of her childhood was and I felt very sad when she said " feeling hungry all the time"
Yes. We tend to forget some had a hard life when growing up. My dad the same. Hungry. Did well for himself but never got over his childhood. Food i thought spoilt he would say there was nothing wrong with it.
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Yes. Same here. My grandmother told me she chewed and swallowed bits of blotting paper in school in the morning to stop her tummy from growling.
My mom was the same about anything used or old, even lovely antiques. She also thought it represented being poor as she grew up without a dad when he died when she was only six leaving his wife alone with 4 children to support in the 1930’s. When I was first married. I was going to buy a beautiful antique bedroom set and she would not allow it. She couldn’t fathom buying something old that had belonged fed to “who knows who” when I could perfectly afford something new and modern. Oh and she hated quilts too. Guess what...I am an avid quilter. Lol. Oh well. Guess I was born in the wrong century. Happy belated birthday Kate
I am so glad most of us will never know what it is like to be hungry. We are so lucky. My own father was in a Russian labour camp during WW2 and never ate well for over a year. He always drummed into us never to waste food and even to this day, I too hate to see people waste food. We do not know how lucky we are.
THAT STAINED GLASS WINDOW IS OUT OF THIS WORLD! OH, GORGEOUS! YOUR HOUSE IS UNBELIEVABLE! PLEASE TELL US ANOUT THE WINDOW! ALSO YOUR FLOWERS ARE WORTH PAYING TO SEE!!! THE YARD AND GARDEN ARE NO DOUBT THE FINEST EYE SALVE / HEART & SPIRIT LIFTER!!! LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR CATS AND TO ALL!!!
I enjoy all you do on this program. I thank you for being there for us.
Having no ads here is a wonderful blessing, they are so very invasive, thank you so much for keeping them away from your lovely channel x
I just start Kate and let it play, back to back! Crocheting 😊. Listening puts me in such a productive positive and happy mood❤
Thanks Kate, Anna and cats!
This has taken me back and reminded me of my mother in law who used to make Hooky and Proggy rugs in Cornwall. I have a bundle of her craft tools so suspect her rug making tools are in there. I'd love to have a go!
I enjoy each episode so very much! I love your colors, your sense of humor, your "give it a go" attitude. Even my 34 yo daughter said your voice is so calm and makes her relax. I agree!!
my grandmother would use the wool from worn out suits. She washed the suits to shrink them. Then she trimmed out the worn out spots. Then she used what was left to make rugs by various means.
Belated Happy Birthday Kate!!!!
Happy birthday TODAY!! xxx
@@thelasthomelyhouse OMG That was funny!! I turned 70 years today :-)
I found you after lock down. I'm sure you filled hours and hours of otherwise difficult time and turned it into a glad time for so many. Thank you ever so much for your videos ❤
😭😭😭No, I wanted you to keep going. I could watch you for hours when you do this kind of thing. As always Kate you are a balm for the soul listening to you.💚
the fabric was wet and dripping! next Sunday! xxx
My mum taught me how to hook rugs and make rugs sewing long coils of scrap twists of fabric. She grew up in Leeds. She is gone now and due to covid I wasnt able to rescue so many of her things. The sight of those wool blankets with the labels brought tears to my eyes. I know there were several in the airing cupboard.
Chat amongst yourselves.
My favorite thing you've ever said, dear kate!
I'm catching up on your back catalog.
Your videos are so warm and soothing. Thanks ever so very much for all of the work that goes into them.
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU DEAR SWEET LADY!
You are now the dearest friend i have that I’ve never really met!
Your RUclips videos are so friendly and calming and happy during this awful time of quarantine!
So thank you so much for being across the ocean and across the internet. I’m in Alabama, USA.❤️
Thank you so much xxx
I have friends in Mobil Alabama, I am in UK 😊
Kate, your flowers are so beautiful - I hope you had a wonderful birthday. Your "not a tutorials" have taught me more than most other people's actual tutorials.
Thank you so much xxx
Sigh I must be old fashioned because I look for those old blankets to use on my bed... nice to see that there is a use for the ones that have gotten torn up.
Happy Belated birthday Kate !
I just wanted to say that I would be so sad if I couldn't watch your videos.
I am sure everyone on the lime green sofa would agree with me. You probably don't realise how much " the last lonely house " motivates our inner craft" 😉, and especially when you take us outside for a walk around the garden or lake. Dont change a thing Kate ❤🌞
Well said, Kim. I feel the same way.
@@tinatippin5705 thanks for your comment ! I usually watch Kates videos on a Monday morning here in Australia. Perfect start to the week ❤
Happy belated birthday Kate!!!!💕🎉🎁🎂🎈
This brought back memories of the rug in my grandmother's house. As most things that belonged to my grandmother is was old and very worn, so after she passed it was not kept. It was just the width of the doorway. But I remember it being a dark background with a simple house in the middle and I think a couple of trees with a cat in front of the house. I loved to look at it and thought it was the most clever thing.
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Both of my parents were in the Army in WWII, Dad in England, Mom in France. Needless to say that as a kid my bed was made with scratchy old Army surplus wool blankets. I'd've been a happier (but chillier) youngster if my mom had made rugs. 😅
Chatting amongst the LGS sitters: If anyone's trying to find cheap burlap, I got free burlap sacks at the local coffee roasters.
I remember those blankets, were they plain with stripes across the top end , and sheets made of twill, mum bought them by the yard and hemmed them top and bottom, very rough.
@@Laura55sere I don't recall if there were stripes, only that they were green. Ma would sew a wide binding that gave at least a bit of relief from the itch and scratch. I remember that our sheets were white percale. One of my first chores as a youngster was ironing them.
@@Hiker_who_Sews I still have a green army blanket, I can't bear to get rid of it. I have slowly given away all my extra blankets to people that needed them but I guess that dark army blanket has too many memoriea
I have watched since the beginning and loved them all…especially the kitchen parts,since I used those ideas as well as the sewing etc. now🎉
I love my wool blankets. I have a beautiful blue floral vintage one and an authentic Hudson Bay with the beautiful stripes. I use them all winter. I like the weight and warmth they provide.
Well I just want yo come over and play. Just told my husband howuch I like your house. So comfy. Colorful. I love color. I have stuff. Sadly I'm constantly trying to find my working space. Flat spaces get covered quickly. Winston Salem, NC, USA
I’m looking forward to this tomorrow. Having watched Arne and Carlos today, one has to eke out the pleasures when locked down alone! 🤗
Look at all the lovely flowers! Celebrate Kate!!!
I can hardly wait or Part 2!!! And to see the new colors.
Oh my.... I'm beyond thrilled ... my grandmother hooked rugs n I have her frames... I learned but have not picked up her hooks in years... I guess I should soon as I am now retired... I will look forward to your next part... thank you... blessings
Delightful to have you join me in my sewing room today! I’m quilting a baby quilt pieced in hot pink and lime green! Belated happy birthday.
I was a delight to see you get a bit frustrated but yet amazingly calm and sensible anyways!
If I had a direct phone line to one of the angels who hover over Scandinavia and Britian, I'd ask her to grab Arne from Norway, where he is actually all alone just now.
Yes, I would pick him up by the scruff of his Norwegian sweater and lift him to play photographer for the afternoon for you. . I'd lift him back to Norway just in time to give Freya her supper.
and I would just love that! poor Arne - I guess Carol will be home soon xxxxx
I did offer to go and keep Arne safe in the dark, but I got not reply :)
Hi Kate I’m new to your channel, thanks to a dear friend. I also make quilts and hooked and proddy rugs which is what they’re called down here in beautiful Cornwall. I’m really enjoying all of your videos, thank you. I went to Beamish last year and it was fabulous and in one of the cottages a lady was making a Proddy/Proggy rug and encouraging people to have a go. I really enjoy your relationship with Anna. Blessings to you all x
Traditionally rag rugs were made over the year and the new rug would be put down on Christmas eve. Old rugs would be used in bedrooms where they couldn't be seen by the neighbours. The rugs were warmer than the lino flooring.
I am amazed at how much you get accomplished being there all by yourself! Kudos to you dear lady!💜🌹🌹🌹
Kate: So sorry I missed your birthday!!! Please accept my very happy belated birthday wishes. I look forward so much to your posts and have for the last year or so. I consider you as my 'friend across the pond". You are a delight, unique, funny, creative, and just you. Thanks Kate.
Happy Birthday 🎉 - This is the oldest you've ever been! 😸. I'm so glad you were born!😍
I heard her voice for two seconds and was in LOVE! I don't even sew! Yay new asmr.
Belated happy birthday, kate!!
BTW, I still use those old time wool blankets. For my beds and for cat beds. Real wool blankets are almost indestructible and absolute treasures.
Yes..wool blankets..very wonderful..n warm!🙋🏼♀️🌻🇺🇸
@@Wyldhare47 Yes, love me a wool blanket. Before I retired, I would take a half size wool blanket with me in the morning to wrap around my lap and legs (to mid calf) to keep my warm until the car warmed up on the drive to work. And then I would take it into the office with me for the same reason cuz the office (the whole building really) would be cold until about 10 or 11 am (maybe later on a Monday). People would ask me why I brought and gave me a raised eyebrow look when I explained, but the laugh was on them ...... I was warm when they were not.
I can't wait for part 2!
I'm gonna miss watching you and the animals..God Bless you..
Ah, Happy belated Birthday Kate....the flowers are beautiful. Love n hugs Dottie xx
Happy belated birthday! ❤️❤️ I so enjoy our Sunday visits on the couch.
Happy birthday sweet sister. I am sorry I missed this. You are so beautiful and precious to us all.
Gosh this brings back memories! 10 years ago while waiting for our previous house to sell, I was dying these blankets with all natural colours and made a rug and a chair pad out of it all!
I am so looking forward to part 2 of the rug making project.
I am loving having your company! I am a recently retired widow living alone in Atlanta, Georgia US. You inspired me to make a small curtain panel. I tried to hashtag you in Instagram, but didn't do it right..I'll figure it out for next time.
In the U.S., duvets are not the norm. We still use a flat sheet, fitted sheet, blanket, quilt or bedspread, or comforter. When we visited my Yorkshire Yorkshire penpal (pre-covid) we weren't sure how to maneuver the bedding as she had a duvet which we weren't familiar with! Too funny! On the Vermont Country Store website you can find gorgeous proper blankets and bedspreads. Love visiting your home albeit virtually
Hello, from a very cold South Africa. I have been watching your video's because we are in covid lock down again. Found your channel so relaxing and interesting. Family are having to feed themselves and make to their own tea. All stay well and safe. Cheers
A belated Happy Birthday, Kate! 🎂💜
My grandfather was a metallurgist, and he and my grandmother emigrated to Montréal, Quebec from England after WWI. I remember-xas a child in the 60s-sharing a bed with my older sister at my grandparents’ house . There was what I always thought of as a ‘rag rug’ on my side of the bed. I now realise that it was a ‘proggy mat’. It was quite shaggy, and I believe it was made of random 6” strips of blue and grey wool-likely from men’s suits as you suggested. Although it is difficult for me to imagine my rather staunch grandmother doing any sort of handwork, she must have been quite adept at it at some point. She had a loom (8 feet?) in one of the upstairs bedrooms, and my mother said that my grandmother used to weave linen towels on it. As the youngest grandchild, I’m sure I missed out on some of my grandmother’s more active years. Perhaps if I was born a few years earlier, she might have taught me to weave. I found out years later that my aunt ‘loaned’ the loom to a neighbour in Toronto, and that was the last that was seen of the loom.
Gonna be interesting and creative! Yahoo! Sandra Myer❤️
You’ve got me thinking of my blue wool blanket from childhood and suddenly I’m smiling again 😊
Gorgeous colors! Thank you for sharing ❤️
Thank you that was very interesting. I have an old rug frame which I was going to sell on however I might keep it and have a go at making a rug myself.
I’ve just discovered your site , I saw that you had made a comment on Laura from the Bruderhof video, it was the name of your site that caught my eye so I had to go and have a look. I am so glad I did because I have spent most of the day watching your videos. You are so easy to watch, so interesting and so talented, I have thoroughly enjoyed watching your videos ( so much more enjoyable than TV) and look forward to catching up with them all. You are such a natural on the camera and you have fantastic editing skills too - you are very clever. Thank you so much for doing these videos and sharing your life with us. Felicity from near Liverpool.💐💐💐💐
Kate, you are a joy to listen to. You raise my spirits! Thank you. Liz in Dublin Ireland.
Happy Birthday Kate, from Canada! You are the BEST! ~
This is the Mary half of Michael and Mary😀. Happy belated birthday, Kate! I so enjoy watching your sweet videos. I am keeping my fingers crossed and I’m going to go looking for some 4-leafed clovers that my sis and I can it back to England soon. We’ll be staying with friends in Derby and would love to visit the Lake District. We ran out of time the last time we were there. We’ve both had shot #1 of the COVID vaccine and will be getting the other one toward the end of February. We’ll just have to wait and see when travel will be allowed again. State of Georgia here and the little town of Richmond Hill is where we live. Just a suburb of Savannah actually. I hope your birthday was happy and fun, and I hope all of your birthday wishes came true!
Hi Kate and everyone here! Happy belated birthday, best wishes to you and your loved ones, both the two and four-legged kind.
I haven't watched much since new year's; kind of a lot going on here in the states... a bit worrisome at times.
It feels really good to get back here.
I am wondering where Norma is... so used to seeing her walking around looking for a comfy place center stage.
I hope she is doing well and everyone else, too!!
Many thanks and much love!! Susan from S. California 💚🐾💙☮
What a great way to start the week!! I adore rug hooking!!!
As soon as I saw the flowers, I knew it was your birthday! Happiest of birthdays, Kate! 💕
I'm sure clever John could make you a frame on adjustable legs to make life easier, and perhaps paten it.
You are so talented. God Bless from Canada!
Happy Birthday, Kate! I love watching you and seeing bits of your life. Thank you!
Kate, you are a treasure and a true inspiration! When I grow up I want to be just like you! I’m sure I’ve already surpassed you in age but not in kindness. Having been a widow these past 20 years has really taught me a lot, mostly that I am capable and can do things on my own but not alone! God bless you.
Greetings from California and a Very Happy Belated Birthday Wish for you Kate. 🎂 🥳 It is always a joy to spend time at the Last Homely House taking in your endless inspiration. You're heartfelt positivity is infectious and desperately needed during these challenging times. You are making a difference in many lives. Blessings of good health to you and your family.
Thank you Kate. Have gone to Patreon and started to figure that out. Good that you've sat us down and talked about the pennies... its important to sort these things out 👍
thank you! xxx lovely of you to recognise that! xxx
My granny was born in England in 1895. She made rag rugs and before she passed gave one to all of her grand kids. She designed them herself. I cherish mine it’s an eggplant. Here in Canada they call it Canadiana rug hooking. My local college offered it as a night course in 1979. I still have the cushion I made.
I had no idea you had a birthday dear Kate - Happy belated birthday.
Seeing you struggle with your frame brought back memories when I made my own quilting frame using plastic pipes and screwing tape onto it to fix the quilt onto it. I think it was 2.5 metres long and like you, I wrestled with it! Such frustrating struggling on one's own.
I am really going to enjoy seeing you do this rug.
Enjoy your channel very much. You’ve inspired me to my first little test of English paper piecing since I tried once at age 22, I’m the same age as you.The little runner from that time I still have. Your wood burning stove is the same as we’ve had in our mountain cabin since I was three. Have a great week and take care,
Your flowers are beautiful! You are loved! Can’t wait for part two to see this rug!
Yay a new project. Better you than me. I've got nothing but ufos. I will love yours 💓
Hi Kate , my Mum used to say they called them pegged rugs , in the olden Days 🤗😄😄
I'm in the "don't like duvet" camp. My dad put one on my bed in England for when I visited and I absolutely hated it. It was always falling off the bed and the bed looked so untidy when it was made. I sleep under just a sheet but make the bed with a quilt and shams (made by me) which looks so much tidier. I guess I'm old fashioned.
When I was a little girl in England (late forties/early fifties) we had a rag rug just inside our front door (and there was a recess in the floor for it to fit in!) made out of a potato sack and using strips of wool from old suits, coats and dresses. My grandmother had one too so I suppose she and my mother made them. They were latch hooked.
Happy belated birthday, Kate.
Oh! I didn’t know it was your Birthday! I am so happy for your mom and dad for making YOU!! I hope this year is your BEST EVER!!
A set of bright orange wool blankets was our wedding present from my Mum an d Dad 45 years ago. It was the thing then. I still have them and was thinking this would be ideal Mum would approve if she was here. I was laughing when you said Martha use to sit in that clip on chair my son had one also but i dont think either of them would fit in it now ha ha ha. He being 42 . I hope you had a very happy birthday
... as distinct from latch-hook rugs which were very posh. My Nan taught me latch-hook and hooky rug making, and her sister (my great aunt) taught me proggy rug making. Both were done with long fabric strips. The tools are different and whether you work from the back or the front varies. I spent my early years in a village just out of Sunderland and all the Nana's made these. They were made in wool because they were hearth rugs and wool wouldn't flare if embers dropped.
I love a wool blanket. It's cold and damp where I live, but most houses in northern California don't have central heat. So wool blankets are wonderful. I'm not sure who decided we should be cold during our rainy winters, but there it is.
Looking forward to part two. Thank you, Kate!
Hi Kate :) When I read the title, I thought, proggy....hmmmm... :) what fun! I'm excited to see the colors and what you're making! I've heard the term proddy rug before, but this is the first time I've heard proggy. I love the history you shared. Nothing went to waste. Wish we still lived in a world that was that frugal! My grandma always said, "waste not, want not." So true. I love wool blankets and very fortunate to have a couple from military hospitals used during the first world war. I picked them up one day at a flea market. They were $10.00 each! No holes or stains! I use them and they're perfect. As always, thank you for sharing all your wonderful adventures with me. Take care :)
I am so sorry that I missed your Birthday last week So Happy Birthday Kate 🥰🙏🏻💖From my 🏡 to yours love and hugs Stay safe Daphne on Australia 🇦🇺🥰🥰
I've just discovered you today. What an amazing, lovely and helpful person you are. So happy to get to know you.
Hi Kate, I’m originally from a small mining village in west Cumbria and remember neighbours having proggy rugs. I have always wanted to make one.
lovely, lovely, lovely to see you today. I’ll be very interested in your project. Nice to see Anna and John at the end, they are such beautiful and kind hearted folks. Say hi to them from me. René Deerheart 🦌💌❤️📚🧶🍫☕️🇨🇦🍪👑🐱🐕🌈🧀🥐🍎🍿🍫🍫🍫☕️☕️☕️🧘🏼🚙🏕🌌🧱🛠🪚🪓🛌📚💜
I missed seeing all your beautiful cats...especially nosey Norma. So happy to see your subscribers take such a good jump!
How fabulous to see Rag Rugging was the subject of today's video as I had seen the mat on Kate's kitchen wall and decided that I must get back to making another.
I made one at a Heather Ritchie class at Higham Hall nr Cockermouth in the Lake District. But I won't be trying to get blanket or dyeing anything as I will be using up old clothes and the Hooky method that makes loops.
You can use anything ...old clothes including Tshirts and thin jersey fabric!, modern knits ie cardigans and jumpers, old coats, mens jackets., sweatshirt and fleece tops or jackets
Nothing that will shred like a towel or hand knit. Unravel your hand knits and reknit or crochet into lap blankets.
Literally anything...even plastic bags (not the biodegradable ones tho) and bread bags.
It was once like patchwork made from whatever people had not new fabric. Am doing the same for my English paper piecing and Log Cabin quilts. ..as my fabric stash is mainly old clothes that I love but wouldn't sell in a charity shop and I can't stand the thought of landfill.
I am not even going to bother if the reclaimed fabrics are old or new...got some clothes never even worn! Hiw wasteful is that? Traditionally you wouldn't mix old and new as the new fibres would pull the old but as its going to be machine quilted and on wadding or a filler if can find an old blanket. ...it will stabilise it s
and if not it can be patched or mended Boro/Darning style. After all its just 'patched' work.
I find it so ironic and very sad that so much new fsbric is constantly being produced whilst we discard the old but still very useful stuff.
I do have some new fabric but can't bear to throw out the old beautiful found/reclaimed fabrics I see in my clothes that no longer fit when am trying to declutter.
Why should the planet have to deal with my excess stuff?
It is not too late to wish you the best that life can offer you! Thank you for making our lives better! Greetings from Brasilia, Brazil!
I really enjoyed the 1st half of this video and looking forward to the next part. Thank you Kate for taking the time and trouble to share your talents.
Thanks for sharing this. I've always been a bit "put off" with the need for a frame, so I use a kind of crochet hook with an eye on the end where I attach some string, cord, wool etc. The idea is to "loop" and "secure" the strips as you go, I've made a lovely rug this way, and I am going to put a photo of it on the FB page. I love what you've done though, and I've just gone into the outhouse to check my stash of wool dyes! It's called a locker hook FYI. I also found (in the aforesaid outhouse) a pile of hessian we used for centre "runners" for my daughter's wedding tables. I knew if I kept it, I'd find a use for it!!!!!!! xxxx
My late mother had a frame for making proddy mats and I remember as a child helping her to make a little rug. We were a mining family from Bishop Auckland/Shildon in County Durham. She could turn her hand to anything and would make all sorts of things. Happy days. when clearing her house I made the mistake of letting it go. Mind you I don't think I would get round to making one!
Just loving your channel , Vivi mentioned you and I’m so glad she did, thanks for showing us your crafting, oh and love the cats..
my grandmother used to make proddy & hooky mats, usuly they were about 6ft x 4ft , & had a black border, the border maybe about 6" wide, then with a red diamond in the middle with all 4 points of the diamond touching the black border, then the 4 triangular parts would be a mixture of colour,s, they were lovely, placed in front of the kitchen range fireplace,
Sensible Kate, i am a 'rug hooker', in Connecticut, usa. I finished a 7' x 9' hooked rug ( orininal design), after 12 years. Cot # 6 ?, on a "cutter", hooked on ' hooking' linen with wool dyed by various hand dyers here in New England. My son posted a picture quite