Am SO close to pulling the last loop but just not pulling fast enough. Grass cutting, pulling weeds and trimming bushes has kidnapped me. The end is near on this gift to my grandson and so glad to have started hooking it months ahead of time.
You regular readers are aware of the worry and struggles with having enough blue background. Now there is only that section at the bottom which requires blue and think what I have left will work.
The hero piece of wool was unexpected. I'd already tried dying wool from the same recipe twice with poor results. As a last resort I went thru a bag of wool which was given away last year at Cape May rug camp.
Matter of fact, at that camp my friend Deb searched me out as the mound of wool had already been rummaged thru before I was aware of the free wool.
Seems sweet Linda Woodbury was giving away wool stash she was tired of. In that stash I found a piece of wool which was used to hook the outer edge of the blue background. That freed up the rest of limited blue and think I'm gonna be okay.
I'm pleased with both the Redskins logo as well as the Orioles. The Nascar flags are okay too, at least Zach will recognize them for what they are.
Thanks Linda for your contribution and looking forward to seeing you, Norma and kris in September, along with all my other hooking buddies.
Saundra
Last evening there was a lot of turbulent weather, high winds, heavy rains, thunder, lightening and tornado watch. With the TV on I was keeping track of the tornado path and on the map you can see where Seaford is on it's pathway.
I had taken a photo of the Rainbow Cabin progress, was walking to the computer to do a blog post and the power went out. Then it was a slow, feeling my way in the dark for a flashlight, then candles, and my trusty storm lamp. Hey that $10 Premier Storm Lamp gave forth enough light that I was able to sit, hook and have a glass of cab for a while. Had my cell phone, wine, hook, wool and Ben at my feet. Thankfully we came out unscathed but it was a scary go for a while. Sadly not everyone along the tornado's path was so lucky.
Here is the progress on Rainbow Cabin, there were 3 different dark textures used in the logs of the cabin. So far the only wool I've cut was the red for the door and a couple more strips of the plaid Texture I spoke of in the previous post for the logs ~ Which was from Dorr, #2011 Sage Green Gold. But it looks brown to me. Wanted more of that to put along the edge of the log cabin to have that white line against the dark background.
Next I'll hook some on both the stars and the rainbow. Stay tuned to see how it turns out. Thankfully this is a smallish mat measuring 16 x 23 so that I can start on the Out of Hand challenge rug when it is announced by Kelley.
Have a great day everyone and hope weather is not turbulent where you live.
Saundra
