Celebrating the Season

This is a design called Jack designed by Barb Carroll and was a free pattern insert in the September/October 1997 issue.  I love it and one day just  might hook another with somewhat different color variations.  

I have other fall/Halloween rugs which I'll post every day throughout the month.  Enjoy.

This morning I went to two different drug stores and Walmart in search of the high dose flu shot and none were available.  Guess next time I'll call first instead of wasting gasoline.

Saundra

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Oops, Another Sheep Rug

Totally forgot to include this rug in yesterdays 'sheep show'.  It is a design by Woolley Fox called "July Cabin" which I hooked in 2012.

Below is a photo of the free design in a booklet entitled "American Folk Art Rug Hooking" by Barb Carroll.  If you compare the graphics below to what I hooked you can see there was some creative license taken. Harhar, some might question my 'creative' part.

This is a picture of the front of the cover and there are some other great free Barb Carroll designs in there for you to enlarge as you wish.

Yesterday's weather and today was great.  Tomorrow will be a smidgen cooler but good in the lower 60's.  And then... and then...don't think I want to talk about the weekend.

Saundra

Binding Jack and a Label

With Westmoreland Ponies hooked and bound and Jack all hooked, it was time to bind him as well.  It feels so good to have no rugs waiting for the final finish.  I used the same yarn to whip at the edge of cotton binding as I did with Westmoreland Ponies, so you can check back on that blog post to check out the whipping and colors.

Here is Jack.  As previously mentioned, this is a pattern designed by Barb Carroll and was free pattern insert in the Sept/Oct 1997 issue of Rug Hooking Magazine.  I think Jack is quite handsome and torn between keeping him myself or sharing with someone by putting him on e-bay to provide revenue to help keep me in my hooking habit.  This picture without a flash is more what he looks like in person.

This is with a flash which makes the colors appear more bright than they really are but you can see the colors in the textures.

Someone asked to see the label for the Westmoreland Ponies so here it is.  It is smaller than I'd like as it would be nice to have fabric to turn under when stitching, that is why I used my pinking shears in order to retard raveling.  So until a larger label is designed this will do and I'll just cover this one over one day with a larger and better label.

Since there is no pattern ready for my Snapdragon as of yet I've resigned myself to sewing on a few more labels to the rugs.  Seems to me there were 8 labels on the 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of fabric that I printed out.  Should have had only maybe 4 labels per sheet but now I know better.  Next up for labeling will be Oh Deer and Mother Hen.

Still don't know what I want to hook next so that is why this is a no muss no fuss, easy peasy task.  Oh, no matter how many pins I put on a label it still  moves and is never on straight.  BUT, it is labeled with all the information.

Have a great evening and catch'ya on the flip flop.

Saundra

JACK is BACK

I'm close to being done hooking Jack but stopped to take pictures of progress to look with a different eye on the computer.  It's getting down to the nitty gritty here and I'm uncomfortable picking colors for the border.  I've thought of breaking up the border with a hit and miss in part of it, but not sure I can make it work since hit and miss isn't as easy as you'd think.  Here is what I've done so far and this is with a flash.

This picture is without a flash and more natural to what it really looks like in person. 

So now I'm wondering what to do to fill those other spots.  Seems there is a need for a red at the upper left side but still not sure about the hit and miss toward the bottom that I started.

Tomorrow I'll work more on binding Westmoreland Ponies so I can finally post a finished rug of that and think about Jack.  Yet I must say this JACK has been fun to hook. 

The last couple evenings here  have been wonderful with lower humidity, lower temps almost October like.  Lemme tell you that I could live in 12 months of October weather. 

Thanks for dropping by and enjoy your evening.

NEWBIES just reading, please feel free to drop me a line to ask questions.  Don't know that I'll have the perfect answer because I have my own 'go to' people when I need answers.  But we all started as newbies and you are now lesser a hooker than I am.

NOTE:
The above Jack pattern was a free pattern insert in the Sept/Oct 1997 issue of Rug Hooking magazine.

WOOLIE HUGS.

Saundra