Or at least that was the plan....to review previously posted antique rugs and 'audition' them to be the 'next one'. After all it is getting close to panic time as I'm close to finishing Deer and Blue House and will want another rug on the frame.
Went thru hundreds of photos on two flash drives and nothing seemed interesting. I have several pdf Halloween themed rug designs I could hook. Then stopped and thought to myself...so what genre do you want to hook ~ do you want to hook a floral? I've talked about designing a rug using the template of a card Barb Carroll sent me a few years ago. This photo below is just a section of an antique rug from Gloucester, MA which measures 40 x 88 and no way would mine be that big if this what I choose.
Or, I could finally start using some of those selvage ends and do a geometric. Here is one Barb showed us at class one year she just finished. Only hers wasn't hooked with selvages good worms from that lovely basket of hers.
Saundra
Not a pink person but that floral rug really intrigues me. Whatever you chose I know I will like how you do it! Good luck deciding. Janice PS Laughed reading your response to my last post. Yes you won!
ReplyDeleteThat flag rug is one of my favorites that one day I will get around to hooking!
ReplyDeleteI love the flower rug the best right now I think. I guess I have been hooking bugs and animals for to long lol. But that deck is one heck of a job! Good for you for doing it.
ReplyDeleteCathy
I know how you feel when trying to choose a design ....I have Too Many I Love !!!! One of these will get you excited & it will be fun to watch your progress !!!!
ReplyDeleteRight now I've had a rug in the frame for over a month, should be able to finish the hooking tomorrow and start another. I have so many ideas but stitching stole me away. I hope you choose a Halloween design!
ReplyDeleteI feel your angst albeit it in a somewhat different form.... I vowed to dedicate September and October to Halloween/Falloween but I feel so scattered. I've finished a couple stitching pieces, but not "finally finished" them and that had been part of the plan...But, every time I attempt a final finish, something goes amuck...not the right fabric, missing the right color of paint, undecided on how to finish, etc., etc. So, I try to pick something else up but my overthinking stymies me and I don't know what to start (so many stitching options...very few hooking (I have a couple wanna-do's, but nothing ready with pattern, wool, etc.)) Dangerous predicament to be in for me who uses stitching/hooking/otherwise-playing to procrastinate doing things I really need to do but really really don't want to. Maybe I will break down and decorate some for Halloween after all. 😶 ~Robin~ (TheCrankyCrow)
ReplyDeleteI still love that shabby little lamb. I'm looking forward to seeing what is on your frame next. Thanks for the rug show.
ReplyDeleteHugs, Julia