With Turkey and Tallowberries almost bound and wanting it DONE, am wondering what I'll hook between now and leaving for Cape May camp in just 12 days.
As my focus will be on the new camp rug when getting home surely don't want a regular size rug vying for my attention. So I've decided to pull out this hit and miss UFO.
This is what it looked like August 16th. And am wondering if one of my readers has decided to do one too? Was that you Gayle? If so, have you started yours? Would love to see you post it when you do. And DUH, this is NOT my design. It is just a hit and miss and anyone is welcome to do their own thing.
Something else I'm considering starting before Cape May is this pattern. That is IF I get bored with the above hit and miss.
One year when taking a class with Eric Sandberg he had a side workshop teaching 'light, bright, dark and dull'. The pattern he offered for sale which was a Fraser design, was the Paisley Stair Tread.
At that time (and still now) was a wide cut hooker using #8 cuts. I hadn't hooked anything narrow and thought this would be a great way for me to start. Besides, Eric is a fantastic teacher, magnificent designer and hooker. The class was enlightening and had high hopes of doing something spectacular with the design.
Then I hooked my beautiful Rottie Memorial in #4 cut.
I love how my beautiful babies turned out, know that I do have the talent to pull off a narrow cut but do not like hooking narrow cuts.
So that is when the Paisley piece went into my stash. It isn't a big piece and IF I end up pulling loops on it will start out with #8 and fight the system. However, could be that more narrow cuts will be used to fill in small spots and that is doable.
Who knows what I'll end up hooking before camp. So stay tuned.
What I know for sure is that soon I'll have to start a fire under my arse to get things done here before I go.
Have a great evening everyone. Weather here is soon going to change back to the 90s of August instead of the mild temps of September.
Saundra
Surely wasn't a happy camper pulling out loops on my grandson's rug last night but knew I'd not be happy continuing. Oh Oh.... NOW what am I to do the rest of the night????
No way I was ready to start working on new motifs for Zach's rug so decided to go in the small room where my extra frames, needlepunch etc. are kept. Was thinking there may be a needlepunch which had been started eons ago which could be worked on.
Holy moly... in a basket were two previously started and aborted hooked pieces. The hit and miss mat below was started when determined to reduce wool worm stash. I didn't like the direction and colors, got bored so stopped.
In that same basket was a small antique adaptation which I lost interest in so put that in the basket. I'd forgotten about these until looking for anything to work on to keep my hands busy.
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Today I did do some preliminary RE-planning of my grandson's rug but decided to chill and work on the abandoned cat mat. No pet should be abandoned so have decided to adopt and work on it again.
After a few loops were pulled in between making soup, this is what it looks like now.
I'm using #8 cuts mostly so far and some 8.5... and YES, all worms!!!!!!! The right eye needs to be more defined and reduced. But all of a sudden I'm attached to this little guy and won't stress over my grandson's rug since Christmas is still 8 months away.
So I'm chillin and hope my blogger friends are in a good place too. Some of you blogger friends are experiencing serious snow falls. We've had some snow here too and will have more tonight. UH, isn't this spring???
Wishing all of you a good weekend.
Saundra
