Can't believe the month of April went by so quickly. For sure this area received all of April's showers in the last 3 days and the ground feels like a sponge when walking on it. Anyway, onto the show...
Recumbent Dog measuring 25.5 x 38 hooked 19th century.
A horse with decorative border dated1890-1920. Just a sweet cat with blue circles; no date or dimensions.
A geometric with a size of 24 x 42 dated 1880-1920.A Frost sheep design measuring 29 x 48 and dated what appears to be 1890. Some of the scrolls have drastic color changes.
An apple a day...well you know the rhyme. Three apples said to be hooked early 19th century.
Identified with name of A Rice, circa 1850-75 is a wool stitched mat on linen piece measuring 13 x 14. I found this incredibly interesting as who would have 'lawn ornaments' of cannons on the front yard, lol. Obviously someone who would stitch what they knew. I enlarged it so you can see the stitches better.
Call me crazy but I really find the rug below interesting too, maybe it's the colors or the rug hooker's thought process for placement of motifs? Dunno, I just find it interesting. An abstract rug dated early 20th century measures 31.5 x 39.5.
And I'll end with this box turtle mat measuring 10 x 12 to commemorate the first sighting of one of my returning box turtles which I saw today. No date on the mat so don't know if it is really an antique.
I've only the hand stitching of the cotton binding to do on my Stars rug and there will be none on the pile when my horse rug is all hooked. But that won't be happening any time real soon.
Happy hooking and don't know about you but I'm looking forward to a sunny day with closer to normal temperatures. Rain still coming down on this Sunday evening.
Saundra
