Sharing Spotlight Time

Just couldn't make up my mind which Halloween rug to display  on my harvest table so decided to have them take turns.  This way I can enjoy them both.  This is a design by Lori Brechlin named "Do Goode be Nice" and can be purchased from Spruce Ridge Studios.  It was hooked in a class with Kris Miller last September at Cape May.

Since I'm not lucky enough to have vintage jack-o-lanterns I made one of paper mache' a few years ago ~ which you see above.  

The mat above I designed and hooked for my love of vintage mache' Jack-O-Lanterns.  It may be a likeness but still not the same as those beauties I remember from my childhood.

Saundra

Background Wool on Westmoreland Ponies

I've had a request from a blogger/hooker friend to see the wool I'm using for the background of Westmoreland Ponies.  But first, an update on the rug ~ not a whole lot more hooked but will bore you with another picture anyway.

Here is the background wool ~ First one is from a dye job I did on a texture using my favorite High Meadow Green recipe.  Second column on top is a grey/green I purchased from Kris Miller bottom wool is something I had from somewhere.  Third column are two wools purchased from Barb for the project but not enough to do the whole background because I figured I had additional here close enough to do the rest of the job....just wanted that as a 'go to' color.  And the fourth column is a wool that I purchased in 2010 from Rebecca Erb called either Tea Green or Green Tea. 

All of these wools are close enough in the grey/green color to work well together, yet give a little variance and indicate movement in the background.  I think I've got a wool for the crown or dome over the horses.  However, my Oh Deer must get out of my face and my living space so plan to finish binding it tonight.  That would leave one more rug to be bound which hasn't even been steamed..... Henny Penny.

Can you believe it is July?  Already?  And I'm so SICK of rain I could spit.  There is a pond behind my yard and into the woods and the mosquito's are multiplying faster than rabbits but Mosquito Control can't come spray because it has rained every day for the last week and will continue thru this week. 

Have a great evening everyone.  Now to make a salad to go with my homemade lima bean soup and finish binding Oh Deer.

Saundra