The 'gathering' has begun and it is being collected in my office near the garage door.
Haven't packed my suitcase yet as I wanted to print out the 10-Day Weather Forecast for Cape May to see what will be needed. It looks to be a good week. I almost feel guilty for being thankful Florence didn't come upwards along the east coast. Poor folks and animals in North and South Carolina are being battered, some deaths, and will take a while for them to recover.
Okay, moving on to lighter topics.....
I weighed myself this morning before breakfast and am 125 pounds. Always want to see how much weight I gain at camp and then upon coming home work at getting back to that weight again. I do love the food there but choose to not eat the red meat or pork. My favorites are fish (particularly the salmon) and chicken if it is baked ~ no fried chicken even tho I hear it is delicious. Also yummy is their corn pudding and delicious homemade yogurt.
In the photo above you can see 9 rugs rolled up, that is the number of rugs completed since last year's Cape May camp. I'm not done with Lady the Donkey yet so she isn't among the rolled up rugs. But will take her to work on until Lucille gets to me.
Last year at Cape May I started On the Loose with Cammie Bruce, a design by Bev Conway.
When it was finished I drew and hooked an adaptation of a dog who I named Spike. I'm hoping my friend Evelyn will take hers as she started hooking it at Cape May last year.
Also hooked a smaller version of Magdalena's Goat. The first larger one true to the original size was hooked similar to Magdalena's. But the second smaller one thought I'd show folks a different color palate.
At Cape May last year I was lucky enough to purchase 1909 Horse pattern (by Emma Lou Lais) at a great price. It seemed to hook fast since it takes no time to finish a block and before you realize it the whole rug is hooked.
At Ocean City, MD last November I started Primitive Horse which is a pattern by Lib Callaway that I'd had for some time. That pattern seems to be the rage now so decided to pull mine out and hook it.
In an April class with Eric Sandberg I hooked this Nola Heidbreder's Flower Power design.
Next, itching to replicate an antique chose a design from the Kopp book which I named Radiant Flower.
With Cape May looming closer, was feeling the pressure to hook the "Sheep at the Beach". It was a pattern so generously given to each student at last year's Cape May rug camp. This is the design drawn on Monk's cloth, except there were no exterior lines. I drew those to not exceed beyond that to ensure room for binding.
This what I designed. It will be fun to see how others hooked their pieces and will take pictures of all of them to share with you.
And the last rug completed since last September is Stars and Diamonds antique adaptation. I hooked the sheep in short spurts while concentrating on the adaptation.
Will have my iPad with me so I'm only an email away. Not sure how successful I will be posting newly created blog posts while I'm gone but will try.
Saundra
Thought it was about time to give a peek of progress on 1909 Horse. In a previous post explained it was a great purchase and a pattern by Emma Lou. You may notice some Sharpie changes on the pattern.
So far those changes are the shape and points of stars and a few lines inside boxes. Will probably make changes along the way to make it closer to the original antique. But know for sure I'll be happy with this beauty when done. What's not to like? I love horses and love antique rugs.
Below is a photo of the original antique.
Today was a wonderful day to wash white clothing and hang it out in the sun and finish on low heat in the dryer to fluff up. Yeah, am old school so love the smell of air dried laundry.
More daffodils have popped up in the yard and I see those prolific weeds growing by leaps and bounds.....which means soon it will be grass cutting time.
But before the grass will need to go out to take control of the pesky lirope which seem to spread like this year's flu. Sure seemed like a great idea to plant them around the fish pond but enough is enough. Must cut them down and place black plastic and cover to kill what is underneath.
Happy Tuesday.
Saundra
As if most of you didn't already guess, it will be another antique adaptation. This time it is 1909 Horse. There's a wee bit of a story or two about this pattern.
First it was a very lucky purchase at less than half the cost of the pattern from Emma Lou Lais' web site. The pattern was among the bargain patterns offered at Cape May during the special Anniversary celebration. So have pattern want to hook... right? Now to find a photo of the original.
HA! The sleuth in me went on a full out internet search. I checked Google, Pinterest, Woolley Fox web site, and lastly Barb Carroll's site. Finally on one of Barb's pages I saw this photo of 1909 Horse in progress and a picture of Emma Lou with someone I didn't know. The detective work wasn't done yet. Still wanted to see a picture of the original antique.
Next I contacted Deb Burcin who built Barb's weebly site and asked who was in the photo with Emma Lou. She said her name was Nada Lind and kindly gave me her contact email address. Nada was very accepting of my email, sent me a photo of her finished rug and stated there was a photo of the original in the Hooked Rugs book by Leslie Linsley.
For heavens sake! That is just one of the many books in my library and didn't think to search thru any of them. Voila! Below is a photo of the original.
While there are 10 pattern line drawings in the book mentioned above 1909 Horse line drawing isn't in there; but the photo of the original is.
Thank you Nada for befriending me and giving me permission to post this photo of you and Emma Lou. In a future post I will share Nada's finished rug. She is even thinking about hooking this again along with me but has a couple camps coming up so not sure when she will join in or if she will even have time.
Sorry my post has been so long but it seemed like a good rug hooking story to share with others. Happy hooking.
Saundra
