Ducks and Eggs in a Nest

Okay, I'm sure you are wondering what kind of progress I'm making on my new project on the frame.  And, OMG, it feels so good to hook what speaks to me at the moment and I'm having fun.  However, I've not been able to put in as much hooking time as I'd like for summer yard work, Ben vet visits for ear infection, and just general life gets in the way of play time.

Okay, Okay, this is the antique beauty that I am hooking.  While I am trying to stay true to the honesty of the original hooker I've taken a little creative license with the nest.  

While I do understand that women used what they had at the time to create their wonderful works of what we now call folk art and wonderful part of history of making do, I'd like to add my creativity to make the nest look more like a nest.  I believe the woman who hooked this before me would smile down and say, "good for you for having better resources than I had at the time".  So this is what I have hooked thus far.  Not much to show after so many days and I'll not get much hooking time in tomorrow either.

Yes, I did pull out that pinkish wool  in the first leaf hooked so this is more orangy and definitely like it better.  However, as I'm looking at the picture in contrast to the original I'm thinking to add a bit more drastic DARK in the nest but not as much as in the original antique for my creative input.  Oh my, back to the 'thinking' board.  And for the record, if you look at the upper left corner of the pattern it appears as tho it isn't on the straight of grain.... but it IS; the backing just wanted to sway that way and so I let it.

What I did learn about duck eggs is that they can be a combination of  greenish, brownish, yellowish and whitish.  The eggs were definitely fun to hook, BUT not nearly as much fun as I'll have hooking those ducky ducks and other leaves.  Oh my but mama is having fun on the hooking frame!

Thanks for stopping by.

Saundra