Yesterday after posting a picture of the beginning hooking on Westmoreland Ponies Melinda Cole sent me a wonderful comment and a picture of the same design she also hooked.
Oh my, so now the pressure is on since I love her hooked version and light background color. The movement in the background has always been one of my favorite things to look at when first starting to hook. Sometimes I move away from that a bit and do the 'S' technique, depending on what I'm hooking. But still favor the ripple or echo effect. However, it seems some hooking teachers don't care much for that style.
I plan to do the ripple/echo on Westmoreland Ponies so am anxious to get further along on it. Perhaps tomorrow I'll give you an update on mine.
If any of you readers have hooked this rug and wish to send me a picture I'd be delighted to post it here and brag about you as well. Thank you Melinda for sharing and giving me permission to post your rug proudly on my blog.
Have a great evening everyone.
Saundra
It is hard to believe that I have had Ben for a whole year now. I'm as happy (actually happier) today than the first day I brought him home. He was 3 years 7 months then so is now almost 5 years old and just a sweet gentle giant of a boy. He still has a lot of puppy in him but then the bigger the dog the longer it takes for them to mature (this from a vet and Rottweiler owner).
Dr. Lewis also said that Rottweiler's are big babies and this is evident when his huge paws step on an acorn in the driveway and he turns and comes to me with a pitiful look as if to say 'make it stop hurting mommy'. So I rub his 'toe-toes', talk to him to console him and then off we go back on the walk.
Here is a picture of Ben intently watching the squirrels outside and when they get out of eyesight from this window he darts to the guest bedroom to keep a closer eye on them.
Ben likes to play with his toys, particularly the squeaky toys, loves his Kong with the challenge of getting cookies out of the center and also loves his big bone when it is filled with peanut butter. Here he is trying to get those cookies out and if this technique doesn't work he stands up and tosses the Kong so that it bounces on the floor and hopefully something will be jarred loose.
On another note, today I updated my patterns page to post pictures of Melinda's hooked Frost Sheep rug as well as Auntie Peanut which was hooked by Lauren; thanks gals, I'm very proud to post your pieces on my web site .
Thanks for stopping by.
Saundra
