A Vintage Santa

Several years ago I hooked my first Christmas holiday rug.  It was this vintage Santa and Deer which is on my harvest table.  It is brought out every year during Christmas and I enjoy it still.

I've seen this design hooked with tongues on the border and other finishes but I wanted mine to be a basic edge so the central figures would catch the eye and not the border.  Yes Santa has short legs and the deer a long torso.  But this was an early primitive rug and that's what makes it so dear.  Just checked my log and this was hooked 2014 so not as long ago as I'd thought.

Currently......wool whipping has begun on Over the Moon ~ HA!  maybe 3" so far 😄 in other words, not too far along on the whipping.  Have also been pulling loops on my new project and I can see a bit of a challenge with this one ~ sorta like a puzzle me thinks.  Again I'm not far enough along to show what little I've accomplished.

Saundra

for rug patterns:  www.woodlandjunctionprimitives.weebly.com

for finished rugs: www.facebook.com/WoodlandJunctionHookedRugs

Over The Moon

Finally pulled the last loops on Over the Moon so the binding will begin.  As I hate that part of hooking it will go at a snail's pace ~ that is unless someone is interesting in buying it for a 'little one" for Christmas.  Well,  make that a little one's room.  If so then I'd speed up that binding process.

I hadn't really planned on selling it and was going to put it on the wall in the office but can't keep all the rugs and I do have favorites.  Guess I'll have to use more discretion when choosing to buy or draw patterns. 

There are more rugs posted in my new FB page: https://www.facebook.com/WoodlandJunctionHookedRugs and once bound this will join them.  Still haven't looked through all my rugs but I've been working at this task for most of 3 days, taking photos, measuring, doing the math for price.  

Once, a rug hooker got angry at me for listing some rugs on eBay for only $85 per sq. ft.  She said I was doing a disservice to the professionalism of rug hookers.  Well, am doing it again and sometimes even less than that on my new FB page.

The water in my yard has still not dried up and it is raining yet again.  Santa...please bring me a boat for Christmas.  

Here's wishing a Happy Hanukkah to all my Jewish blog followers and rug hooker friends.  

Saundra

www.woodlandjunctionprimitives.weebly.com for rug patterns 

 

TOO MANY RUGS

The other day someone on Facebook asked what we do with our rugs instead of rolling and placing them in a closet.    I have many on walls in various rooms, even more rooms than I'm showing on this post.

Rolled up an in an antique copper boiler (my grandfather's), made into pillows...

On the wall over the bed and in other vessels and walls than shown here.

I've given some to my sweet DIL, hooked one for my son, hooked two for my grandson, gave one to my son to raffle for the American Legion but I've still more than I can rotate on tables and chests.  Yet, I don't plan on stopping hooking in the near future ~ too much wool, too many rugs yet to hook.

So with the encouragement and help from Sandi Lucero (thanks Sandi) I have started a new Facebook page for Woodland Junction Hooked Rugs.

And I've decided that when I'm finished with this cute rug Over the Moon I'll list it on the FB hooked rug page too.  Finished size will be 16 x 22.5.  So if you are interested in having a sweet rug for a little one, as one of my followers called it, contact me.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Saundra

www.facebook.com/WoodlandJunctionHookedRugs

www.woodlandjunctionprimitives.weebly.com