LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION?

If so, perhaps you'll get inspired for a new hooking project in one of these hooked pieces below.  Oh, speaking of hooked rugs...have you feasted your eyes on the latest ATHA magazine article "Collectors Corner"?  Some cool looking old rugs and one I commented about in a previous blog post ~ the  one with 155, or was it ISS or the reverse?  

Now on with the show ~ am sure Robin will love the following rug with cats playing ball.  What was interesting is that the person who offered it for sale had purchased it from Joel and Kate Kopp.  They are the folks who published the booklet "Art Underfoot".  The rug measures 23 x 38.5.

Am sure I've posted this horse profile rug previously so it must be up for sale once again.  Said to be hooked early 20th century.

The bright horse rug below was found on Fiddler's Antiques FB.  Whenever I see a very bright rug I have doubts on the dates hooked in or stated by the auction house.    AND, I would like to add that when I hook an antique adaptation with that original date on the rug, my label indicates it is an antique adaptation and put the year I hooked it.

Faces with hit and miss (23.5 x 40) hooked early 20th century.  This one sure doesn't inspire me one bit, lol.  But since it was different thought I share.

Cats and bluebirds in flower garden hooked early 20th century.

The  Barbara Merry rug below is listed for sale on eBay right now.

Birds under a fruit tree hooked early 20th century (22.5 x 36)

Years ago I'd contemplated hooking this Bengal Tiger since I have the full size pattern in an old book.  This one might be an adaptation but the design is old.  It is an Edward Sands Frost design (an enterprising Maine tin peddler).   Frost began selling stenciled patterns on burlap in the 1860s, by the time he sold his business in 1876, he had about 180 patterns.  Measures 29 x 45.

Vase of flowers, 1930's 27 x 37.

Another Eagle design if you're still looking for something to hook for America's 250th Birthday.

And finally, a dog, which could be a Golden, hooked late 19th century.

Very soon my driveway will be patched and sealed so it looks new again ~ not totally resurfaced tho.  So this morning after breakfast I'll go outside to scrape out weeds growing in the cracks of my asphalt driveway and spray to kill any roots hiding between.   And will continue shoveling and pulling weeds (liriope) which has encroached along the sides of the driveway making for a more narrow roadway.  I want the whole  driveway covered, not just what the workers see.  I'm too old for this stuff but too cheap, to pay someone to do it.  And that is exactly why my leg got injured.  You'd think at my age I'd have wised up by now, lol.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, I'd rather be happily hooking.

Saundra

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