Rug Hooking Updates

Will start with a photo of the Blue Bowl I'm working on.  Now wondering why the hell I drew it so big.  Am sure I'll need to do some onion skin dying of soft orange for the stems and not confident I've enough of the soft green.  But would have had enough with a smaller design.  Oh well, like that saying goes "...make do or do without".

Sheila finished hooking her Granny Donaldson rug.  Her design of the motifs held a special meaning for her with an angel, heart, child and woman.  I've emailed Sheila personally to thank her for joining the group and get her mojo back.  

We're almost finished with this Granny Hook-along with only 2 members left.  But me thinks since it is going to be a crappy weather weekend they too will be finished ~ as they were so close.

Weather has been a roller coaster ride in Delaware and elsewhere on the east coast.  The last couple days we've had 60+ degree temps and I've taken advantage of that to lop off more pine tree limbs and drag to the back of the property.  Once today I tripped over a stick and fell to my knees carrying limbs.  Sure hope I don't end up with water on the knee in a few days.  It hurts like hell to have a needle stuck in there to remove the fluid.

Hope you enjoyed the wonderful weather while we had it and remember...spring is just ahead.  Happy hooking.

Saundra

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So Far a Group of SIX

With me included we are a group of SIX .....Here's the team list so far but maybe we'll have more join after reading this post.  

Lauren (Rugs and Pugs) enlarged her choice of a Granny Donaldson project and think she has it on linen already.

Elaine, my Canadian pal, chose a design and is hand drawing her own adaptation, am excited to see what she comes up with.

When Sheila saw my initial post about Granny's Cow Blankets it renewed that spark for rug hooking again and am very happy she is joining us.

Kim (My Field of Dreams) chose Karen Kahle's version of a Granny Donaldson rug titled "Simple Gifts".  

Denise is also joining in ~ her pattern was shipped yesterday and the receipt said it should arrive on the 15th.  Sure hope the post office doesn't disappoint.

So there you have the line up of participants....so far.  I've done a little research to find hooked versions of a Granny design and found a few.  Maybe these will help in color planning your rug.  This one below looks as tho the background was still in progress.

I found this photo of a hooked Granny rug on Pinterest.

And here it is again below and was hooked by Sheila sometime ago, wonder which design she chose to hook this time.

Below is a dark background and close to the design above.  Nice to see how rugs look with different background color choices.  Hmm, but I do see what looks like a pitchfork on the right?

Here is a photo I took at Barb Carroll's rug camp and the huge rug was still in progress.  Wish I had a photo of the finished rug.

Even found a needle punched version of a Granny Donaldson with soft colors.

And lastly is the Simple Gifts pattern I hooked a few years ago which I believe was Karen's adaptation of a Granny style but with a border and corners like Magdalena was known for.

If you would like to revisit my earlier blog post where I featured all of Granny's Cow Blankets you can find it HERE.  Would be fun to have more folks join in.  Since we will begin this Saturday the 15th I'll email all participants on Monday the 17th and ask for a picture so I can show them all on my blog.  Not to worry gals, if you want to post yours on your blog or post them on Facebook that's cool, but I'd love to have all of them to showcase here too.

Have fun color planning and this should be an easy project  I already know what color my background will be.  Happy Hooking.

Saundra

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