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Grandson's favorite soccer team.
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Grandson's favorite soccer team.
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It was a nice step back from the Magdalena Goat and am looking forward to pulling loops on it again. During that break I worked on my grandson's next sports wall hanging. He doesn't know about this one yet as I'm saving it until Christmas. Must say that starting it early was great to have an 'interim' piece when you need a break.
As you might surmise, the background wool will be blue and have already sewn on the wide heavy cotton binding. There will be a sleeve sewn at the top to accommodate a yard stick for hanging. The stick might need cutting at the ends to fit inside but does a great job. That is what was used for my grandson's other Sports Rug last year.
On a side note, my son Greg stopped by yesterday and showed him progress of this piece. He said he'd purchased tickets for a game between Barcelona and (??? can't remember) coming to the DC/Baltimore area in July. OMG, Zach was off the charts ballistic when told of this.
Greg said the tickets for the 3 of them (dad, mom and Zach) was over $500 but said it was worth it for Zach. I reminded him that IF they had to go to Spain to see them play the cost would have been MUCH higher.
Have a great evening.
Saundra
Okay, I'm guilty of taking breaks from whipping the edge of my rug with wool yarn so every once in a while needed to pull loops on my grandson's rug. This one is a piece of cake compared to my son's Cave Man Rug and my grandson's Favorite Sports Rug last Christmas.
So, when the last of the wool whipping is done on the Horse Trainer my grandson's rug will rest for a few months so that I can begin my next project.
Above is the Horse Trainer and all that is left of whipping is 36" at the bottom. It WILL require one more steaming. I have concerns with the corners. It looks wonderful from the top and coverage is good. But it seems the corners curl and are longer (stretched out). Am hoping the steaming fixes the look. Any advice from your experts?????
Have a great evening and plans are that whipping will be accomplished tomorrow. BUT.... I have a pattern order which needs to be drawn, the wool room needs to be cleaned up before before wool can be cut for the new project. Trust me there is no one more excited about starting the next antique rug adaptation than me. So we will ALL have to wait.
Have a great evening and am so sorry for the horrendous snowfall for our neighbor's in Canada. Hope you still have electricity and enjoying your Storm Meals.
Saundra
Yeah, sometimes stuff happens and you want to go in a different direction. Don't think my regular readers expect anything different from me based on my history.
My grandson's rug looks like this right now but will put it aside and do a couple other things.
Meanwhile I'll store the project and wool in this basket purchased from Overstock. Sometimes they offer 3 baskets at a good price and sometimes none are being sold. It is a hit and miss sort of purchase. So you need to keep checking back. Sure do enjoy these baskets.
The Horse Trainer still needs to be bound and that is one of the projects which will be worked on while the soccer rug is on PAUSE.
Plus I have an order for patterns which comes first. SO....there is nothing new to show from my hands.
Have a great evening everyone.
Saundra
I'm loving how the Horse Trainer is coming along and am close to pulling the last loops. So naturally I'm antsy to start something new. That new project would be my grandson's next gift. His very most favorite sport to play is soccer and it didn't get hooked into his last Christmas gift. Only Nascar, the Orioles and Redskins made it in the hooked gift.
Since Zach's favorite soccer team is from Barcelona I'm going to hook their logo. I've started gathering colors and even pulled some yellow strips from my wool worms. The outline of the logo is hooked in a blue black so pulled what seemed to work and when taking this picture below, it showed up purple.
So back to my shelf and pulled out this piece of wool for the photo and it shows up too brown. There is plenty of dark black/blue wool on my shelf so will find something suitable when time to start hooking.
Normally I don't sew on my binding first UNLESS I know for sure the margins or borders will not change. Sewing on the binding before hooking makes it so much easier when binding time happens. Uh, still don't like doing the binding part but it is easier.
Happy February 1st everyone.
Saundra
