RECYCLING STUFF These DAYS

BOTTLE CAP ART
I am supposed to be doing FALL CLEARING OUT these days . . .yes I prefer it in SEPT than to Spring as for me  FALL is  the start of all things NEW . . .

So while dusting off some of my BOTTLE CAP ART collection . . .and the thought of the big RECYCLING SHOW of HANDICRAFTS coming up in a few months in Montreal . . .
and the wonderful gift from my cousin Nibby H of 5 000 bottle caps he collected for me . . . .

I am into studying what I can do with them . . . .
and I came across this  wondrous  Bottle-cap FISH art all made with recycled materials . . . made by John UNGER . . . .so very neat all these caps lined up . . .

reminds me of hooked loops all so neat . . .
all  measured and lined up perfectly against one another . . .
To SOME  folks this is a great achievement . .
- the neatness  . .
- the evenness . .
.- the perfection of it all . . .it is exciting to look at all the neat organization . ..
It is so hard to be such perfection  that it must mean the work is incredibly good work  right?


Never mind the colour ,composition,excitement of design . . .texture. . . .personal creativeness of the rug . . .


Therefore ,sorry, but I beg to differ . . .

. . .many rug hookers think that this is what they are to do to reach the level of a good  and perfect hooked rug!. .. . . leaving all others that do not have these neat machine made looking loops in all their rugs to feel they  have failed  . . .


Some folks prefer the TEXTURAL LOOK of  a Lumpy UNEVENESS LOOK in a Rug.

PLEASE LET ME REMIND YOU ALL to
DO WHATEVER MAKES YOU HAPPY in your Rug!!
That is what makes your rug  SPECIAL . . . There is absolutely no ONE  WAY or the OTHER  . . 


REMEMBER it is a totally PERSONAL CHOICE of what you LIKE that should guide you in your choice of hooked loops look!!!
Its a matter of  PERSONAL TASTES ONLY .
There are no ''RULES'' set by  a gang of ''WHAT THEY''  say loops should be!!!


My own Bottle Cap Fish would NEVER be as organized or neat as this one here pictured . . . .Although I love this one above and I might try - in the end it would look very different . . . .
more like ''ME''
and '' Vive La Difference'' If we all made things the same  . . .how dull  and boring . . .

So as I told someone yesterday who was stuck with deciding . . .

''JUST GO HOOK IT''




Comments

  1. Love this bottle-cap fish!! He would look great at our lake place!! And I love your advice that it's your rug ~ do what you like! Some feel they have to please their teacher or someone whose hooking they admire ~ I agree with "please yourself"!!

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  2. Thanks Alice for your comment! Lewt me know if you make one-start collecting!
    HEavens if you try to please everyone who looks at your rug you would be really confused!- NEVER NEVER feel you have to PLEASE A TEACHER!!!They may have good input -but always decide what is best for YOU ! A teacher who is threatened by this is just someone who has ''judged ''your rug with her own PERSONAL intellectual tastes likes and preferences!
    ALways listen-but decide for yourself!

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  3. Mevlana Jeladdin Rumi 1207-1273
    Let the beauty we love be what we do
    This is a philosophy I contemplate! I personally love spontaneous natural flaws and also the exquisite sacred thread woven into Navaho rugs and other deliberate flaws made in some textile traditions ..
    Lin

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  4. Thanks for your comment Lin!
    yes natural flaws are ''good LUCK'' in many cultures !

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  5. Thanks for that reminder. We often do get hard on ourselves while doing things that are supposed to be fun, don't we.

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  6. Thanks Judith for the reminder. I have found myself lately looking at everyone else's rugs, cross stitch, quilts - you name it and feeling like mine are somehow inferior and that I should just stop crafting because I'll never be that good or that creative or, or, or... Thanks so much for posting this!

    Have a great day
    Char

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  7. Ma chère amie Judith,

    Je vais sur ton blog régulièrement.

    Mes félicitations pour celui d'hier. J'ai bien apprécié.

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  8. Which is why I chose YOU are my teacher, Judith. Because My rugs will never look like anyone elses (and I don't want them too)

    Plus you know how I feel about things that look too "Neat and Straight" on a rug....

    See you soon, Dawn

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  9. Oui Oui Madame! Look at Nature---never repeats exactly--always some small (exciting) difference from one snowflake to the next eh? So it is with each of us--and how booooooring to copy. Confidence comes from encouragement like yours Judith--Merci

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