Purple Flower Power

Here is a cool way to hook this flower.  In this picture below your probably wondering how the heck you'd hook those dainty flower petals.  Could you imagine hooking them from the flower part outward with a tail, loop or two and then tail?

Oh no, there is a cool way to hook this flower and it is with the 'beading technique'.  So first I hook the inside part of the flower.

Then using a strip of background color and flower petal color you hook one color at a time altering the color.  If you are a knitter then you know about working two strips of wool yarn at a time and this is the same.

Above is how the left side flower looks after using this technique.  Isn't that the coolest ever?

Yes, there is a hooker's rule (I prefer to call it 'guideline') where we aren't supposed to 'cross over' our hooking.  Yes it does weaken the wool when the rug is used on the floor, but this rug isn't going on the floor so it will be fine.

There is still water in my backyard and into the woods.  The rest of the yard feels like I'm walking on a sponge it is so saturated with water. Yet there is the threat of the hurricane.  Honestly, I'm frightened and tho I don't wish harm on anyone else sure hope it doesn't hit the eastern shore.  Let's hope it heads back out to sea.

Have a good evening everyone.

Saundra