Okay, now I'm going to reveal the secret swap partner and pattern I've been teasing about. But first, the story ~ there are a few hooking bloggers that I consider friends even tho we have not met yet we communicate via e-mail fairly often.
One day an e-mail came in from Kathy of Briarwood Folk Art and she said she would love to hook my Frost Sheep w/Birds and Flowers and did she have a design I'd be willing to receive in exchange. Are you kidding??? I knew there were several I'd like but wanted to select my most favorite , so I chose Big Dog Hollow.
Since Kathy was travelling and knew she wouldn't be home until after this weekend (she arrived earlier), was keeping it under wraps so we could each blog about our respective achievements. So I wrote to Kathy confessing that I'd started hooking Big Dog but haven't blogged about it until she could start the Frost rug. Today I received an email from her saying she would be quite busy and probably not get to it for a while and it would be just fine for me to break the silence of the secret swap. So some time later she will share her progress on the Frost sheep design on her blog and I'm looking forward to see her work in progress. But in the meantime I can share my achievements on Big Dog and feel SO FREE of the self-induced restraints.
This is what I have accomplished thus far but just might change out the color of the collar and star but not just yet until I see how it will go with the sky color and have more hooked it. Oh but it was great to use wool from my wiggly worms and hook in the dog. If you look to the left of the picture you can see my boy Ben's paw-paws in the picture and I didn't dare crop them out.
When I start a new project I have all my colors individually bagged and slowly the mess starts to appear. It isn't all of a sudden so if I took time could control the mess. But hey, it is much more fun to hook than clean up, even wool strips. You can see the wool on the sofa arm, there's also wool on the end table to the left of that and loose wool strips hidden behind the hooking frame. Please tell me I'm normal.
Thanks for visit and feel free to drop by any time.
Saundra
