MISC. CHIT CHAT

For a couple seconds I thought about making the title "All work and no play" but I did get to play in the wool later in the afternoon.  For almost two hours my time was spent whittling away at the Wisteria vines since the weather was mild.  This is the first photo I took after the wind storm.  Lots of Wisteria vines.

Below is how it looked after my whittling.

I know, no noticeable difference.  But look at what was put in my dumpster which will go out tomorrow morning.  It is almost full but wanted to leave enough room to put real trash in it to camouflage the garden waste.

It will take many more hours to cut and remove those potentially invasive vines as I will only be able to remove those seen above ground.  So am sure the Wisteria will live to see another day due to what is underground.

It has been so cold these last few weeks that I went through $768 worth of propane delivered January 8th.  Yesterday (2/24) was the new delivery and the price per gallon had increased by 30 cents.  Yet at the gas pump gasoline has dropped below $3 per gallon here.  Guess the increase in propane usage is that 'supply and demand' theory.

In the afternoon it was time to play with wool.  Well, guess cleaning up the wool around the hooking area isn't really what I call fun.  But is fun to see a finished rug that was a pleasure to hook.  And took a photo with a hank of Ali Strebel yarn which is what will be used to whip the edges.

Notice this hank has all the colors which appear in the rug.  I've had this hank for a while as it was purchased along with a couple others when in Ali's class.  So it is finally making its debut and will be perfect.  The rug has since been steamed and ready for whipping.

Am still looking for a major project to hook.  After area is cleaned up where I hook, if I haven't found a 1st string antique, I'll start the 'plus one'.  Meanwhile, at 5 p.m. while watching The Five you know I'll be binding this rug.

Saundra

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WHAT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR

Finally the reveal of the entire project I'm working on and the antique rug from which I drew the pattern.  As you can see there is a lot more for me to hook but it is still fun.  I named it "Animals Great and Small" and drew it out to appox. 20 x 45.  It isn't overwhelmingly big and can still mostly use #8.5 wool strips.

Haven't decided yet whether or not to pull out the cat wool or that between the legs and tail.  Jury is still out on at this point just want to move forward before taking steps backward.

Below is the antique rug which was difficult to get true shapes of the animals since there were rows of hooking in different colors around them.

On my rug I've chosen to hook a thinner and darker red row around the animals so it doesn't overpower the animal or make the rug too bright for my primitive taste.  When starting to hook the star I did an entire light outline around it before hooking the gold.  Didn't like that and ripped it out before going too far.  Perhaps my wool was too light but wasn't in the mood to dilly dally, lol.

Today was rather mild but still have iced snow in the shady areas.  Haven't listened to the weather this evening but yesterday this area was to get rain, change to snow and 1-3" more of that despicable white stuff with single digit temps next week.  Ain't winter lovely?  NOT.

Saundra

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