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Hi, I'm Karen and I live in the Southeast part of beautiful
Wisconsin with my husband Doug.
We have three married sons and five grandchildren.

I have enjoyed designing and sewing Penny Rugs for my own pleasure for several years
and want to share my fun with others.
This is my passion and I hope it shows in my products.

~ MADE IN THE USA ~
All designs are MY OWN ORIGINALS and HAND STITCHED by ME
The grungy Hang Tags are also hand drawn and paintd by me as well ad in a Smoke Free home.

This Pineaple Rnner is my signature piece...the very first one I made
and it started me on my wonderful venture!
I unfortunately used 'crafters felt' on it but it still came out quite nicely I think
SORRY - THIS DESIGN IS 'RETIRED'

Many of the designs are cut free hand - no patterns - so each piece is
ORIGINAL and ONE OF A KIND so to speak
They are also MADE TO ORDER...we do not make a supply ahead
so your purchase is MADE JUST FOR YOU

All of our products are made from National Non Woven wool felt or wool and backed
with the same fabric or homespun, double facing allows
the table runners, mats and wall hangings to lay flat

Our designs consist of Sheep, Willow Trees, Houses, Crows,
Pineapples, Stars, Flowers, Beehives & Bees, Flowers, plus many more and for
Christmas we have Feather Trees, Gingerbread People, Snowmen, Mittens
plus many other designs

I have a special technique of preparation to give it the old nubby wool look.
Some colors are aged with coffee or tea to give it that primitive worn/aged look,
Pieces may have a slight variance in color depending on dye lot and preparation

We use very rich primitive colors like
dark gold, green, brick red, navy, black, bronze and ivory.
Brick red being our signature color - I try using this color somewhere on each design I make

Besides our Penny Rugs with have added many
Primitive - Colonial decorative items to our store to
help you decorate your Primitive-Colonial
and not so primitive home or give as a gift to someone you care about
like candles, prim fixins, homespun towels, woodware just to name a few!

All designs are property of KM Primitives and are under
Copyright © 2005/2010 law and cannot be copied
or sold without written consent by KM Primitives
and some designs are licensed

Karen

What is a Penny Rug?

Penny rugs earned their name during the 19th century and Civil war era,
using copper penny coins as templates to cut the wool and felt circles, or pennies
as the name implies, that formed the basis of the works.

The term 'rug' means something that covers or lays on top of,
so they were not only meant to use on the floor as one would think.

Circles of graduated sizes were stitched on top of
each other in twos or threes and then applied to a backing.
Sometimes penny coins were sewn into the rug corners for added weight.

The tabs are referred to variously as tongues, tabs,
cat tongues, lamb tongues, and petals and often were used as
"pen wipers" to keep the ink pen nibs clean as they were sold in dry goods stores.

Most of the penny rugs had simple shapes such as flowers or animals,
which were layered and appliquéd on the rug with a blanket stitch.

They were traditionally made from felted wool and were
not used on the floor as the name would imply, but as
decorative table rugs, bed top rugs, mantel hanging,
chamber stick mats, and were even used as wall hanging.