Sorry for the brief detours now I'm back to bore you with more rugs and other items I've hooked.
There are two rugs where the date had been lost in time. One is a kit purchased from ebay and a design by Pat Cross. Not sure of the timeline but it must have been between 2002 and 2003 while still dipping my toes in the water of rug hooking and not having much wool stash.
The person had hooked a couple circles, started a star and hooked a little background. Guess she decided rug hooking was not for her. Some great wide cut wool and a great design was received...me thinks it may have been a kit from Pat Cross herself. Although it is a basic two color rug I find it enjoyable to see when walking into the sewing room and wool room.
This a pattern in one of Pat's books Called Purely Primitive. Just pulled mine off the shelf and there is a host of wonderful designs to draw on your own and hook.
The other rug in question NOW has a birth date. I was determined to research to find out when this was hooked. Knowing that I'd kept the wool from the kit thought that might lead me to the date.
Here is the catalog from which the pattern was ordered. AH HA! 2003.
So now I plan to enjoy and use those colors stashed for what reason?? Why not use them? I've been guilty of saving favorite wool colors, aromatic soaps..for a special occasion?. Will definitely use them NOW.
I'd planned much more for my blog post but got carried away with research. PLUS cleaning the porch in this heat and humidity used up a lot of my time.
Chat with ya tomorrow and hope you enjoy the post more than today.
Saundra
Yes, it's true that I love crows. The story behind that is my sweet departed Rottweiler Panzer, the son of Shumba. We bred Shumba once, she had 8 pups which all lived, strange for a first litter. We sold 7 and kept Panzer.
Panzer was the sweetest most gentle goofy boy dog ever. I used to tell my ex he was a jokster. He'd run thru the field grab a wild flower and run at his mother hoping she'd chase him down for it. I'm getting off track here.
Anyway, Panzer also thought he could fly because when a crow would caw and fly nearby he'd run and leap as tho he would sprout wings and catch it. Then the attraction to crows began.
1 Crow Bad News
2 Crows Mirth
3 Crows a wedding
4 Crows a Birth
5 Crows riches
6 Crows a thief
7 Crows a journey
8 Crows a grief
9 Crows a secret
10 crows sorrow
11 Crows love ~~ uh, I'd like to know where that love is???
12 Crows a good tomorrow. But the poem doesn't have a 13th crow so maybe that is where my love went, lol.
Yes, I hooked all of those and actually have another couple Magdalena rugs which also had a crow in them but didn't post.
Have a great evening.
Saundra
