As I'm not quite ready to show my little bit of progress on the OOHRH Sheep challenge piece yet thought you needed some sort of blog fix. Yes, I did finally decide on the grass and stem color of the daffodils and am presently out of my slump. But it has been two days since I posted and figured you needed to see a little something here.
First is a yarn sewn rug on a footstool hooked approximately 1830, according to the auction site. It is mounted on a madder base footstool, hooked with cotton and wool. The legs of the foot stool are visible and I chose to not crop those out of the photo.
Below is a hooked deer with a scroll edge. Sorry, don't have any other facts.
Below is a landscape with animals and birds. No other information other than my visual observations, lol.
A very faded floral center and geometric border hooked rug, don't know the date but has seen some use in it's time.
Not sure if I've shown you this antique horse rug below before or not. But in looking at it closely (tap on the photo is you want to enlarge it), notice the frightened look in the horse's eye. I'm thinking this is a race horse or show horse who was getting his legs bound (or unbound), got spooked and darted off. Those are wrapped legs not natural 'socks'. Not sure what the proper term was but as a kid when talking about our horse we referred to light colored hair near the hoof as a sock.
I love this whale rug which sold for $28,000 by 1stdibs. One day I want to hook it. Think Maria Barton did an adaptation of this design too, and was wonderful.
The rug with all the cats below is great and a good adaptation. But if you look closely it appears the edge is whipped with wool which definitely wouldn't have been done years ago. But whoever hooked it did a darn good job making it look old, dirty and worn. If anyone knows who hooked it I'd love to give credit and know who I should be envious of for their talents.
This rug is quite colorful and question its antiquity with the colors and scallop edge. Unfortunately I cannot read the information below the rug so don't know any other info.
For years I've wanted to hook the 3 Bears rug. My grandson is into football, soccer, baseball and Nascar so no bears for him. Maybe one day I'll tap into my inner child and hook it just for me.
Well chickadees, time for me to fix my salad, heat up the homemade soup and then hook. Sadly I haven't made the artisan bread recipe that Kim of Millie's Mats spoke of but have purchased the yeast. So now my plan is to make the bread the day I make some homemade chicken rice soup.
Have a great evening everyone and please be kind to one another.
Saundra
The last month has been chaotic to say the least. The chaos couldn't have come at a worse time when there is a delightful rug camp to attend and I leave this Sunday morning. If you've been following me you know the story so won't bore you yet again. Good news is that the Dell Windows 10 set-up is going much better than the HP did. But then it is only one day old and not all the settings have been accomplished.
So it was time for me to settle down, lower my blood pressure and start pulling loops on something new. This will be a calmer between chores and will be what is played with the night before class and the morning of until Kris Miller gets to me. Always have something to keep you occupied when going to a camp so you don't get bored. Kris and other teachers I've had are very fair and go around to everyone but someone has to be first and someone has to be last. And sure don't want my hands idle while my mouth is working, lol.
This is my new project and I've pulled a few loops. It feels really good to sit for a few minutes and pull loops instead of cussing at the computer. And Kim, dearie, this photo is especially for you...payback.
Sorry the rest of you are being punished for the actions of one hooker person, but I rest my case..... Kim. Oh that felt so good! And I know I'm so bad and should expect retaliation. That's okay I'm a big girl and know how to pull up those big girl panties.
Tomorrow I'll show the rug I'm working on and maybe I'll block 'you know who' from visiting my blog, harharhar. No, I couldn't do that or I wouldn't get her wrath. It is such fun bantering back and forth, right Kim? After all, Evelyn is at Cape May this week and need someone to harass.
Have a great evening everyone. Stay tuned.... until tomorrow....
Saundra
