BRIEF RUG CHANGE

Although Cape May rug camp is a few months away thought I'd start deciding which rugs to take for the show.  So looked at the list of rugs I'd hooked since last Cape May camp ~ I didn't go last year (2022) because there were no primitive teachers scheduled.  The rug list is rather long so can't take all of them; plus some I was not happy with, some are small and not worth showing ~  you get the idea.  

At the 2021 Cape May camp I had Bev Conway as my teacher so think I'll take the rug I hooked in class *Stacked Flowers, a design by Margaret Shaw.

Hooked in 2022 I won't be taking the Comstock adaptation which was a pattern drawn by someone else as I hated having to redraw sections to make it look more accurate then hook it.  Some of the rugs hooked which I'm considering taking:  *Blue Bowl of Flowers, *Deer and Blue House, *Double Eagles, all of which were antique adaptations.  As I drew those was happy with the accuracy of the line drawing.  And although it's small might take the monochromatic of *Mother With Fishbowl.  

So far in 2023 I've finished 4 rugs with one on my frame.  One of them  was not particularly enjoyable to hook.  So thought I'd give it a test run for a rug switch for a day two to reacquaint myself with it to see if we like each other.  Here is the Never Ending Floral.

The jury is still out on that one but what has made the cut is *Stars, Stars, Stars, and *1911 Horse which are both antique adaptations I drew.  Scalloped Flowers is still a work in progress and don't know what will be on my frame next.  But so far seems as tho there are definitely 6 rugs planned for the rug show early September in Cape May and a couple maybe's.

Saundra

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FLORA INSIDE and OUTSIDE

Here is the fauna inside my home, The Forever Floral is now completely finished so that journey has ended.  Now I've a clean slate with none left to bind, one left to finish hooking and the prospect of something new to hook in my future.

Not sure if I mentioned this in previous posts but my inspiration for drawing this was Theresa Rapstein's (right) adaptation of a rug she hooked.  Theresa's adaptation is of the Gloucester Floral hooked 1850-1874 located at the Beaufort Sleeper McCain House Gloucester, MA.

I was blown away by the antique look and wanted to challenge myself to design a rug ~ smaller but trying to replicate an antique look.  Of course mine doesn't even compare to the fine work she did but it was fun up until it wasn't, lol.  That's when I re-named it "The Forever Floral" since  it seemed to take me forever to finish it.

Julia (Of Petals and Wool) asked me a few days ago to take some photos of what's growing in the yard.  When I went to hang out the bird feeder I noticed those ground growing pink bleeding hearts and no visible stem in sight.  On either side are the start of daylilies.

Daffodils and periwinkle (vinca minor) in bloom.

More Daffodils plus lots of leaves.

Even more daffodils....

And a big assortment of day lilies and tiger lilies.

Those were just from the side yards, no pics of the back or of the forsythia which also have blooms.  Going to be a high of 50 tomorrow with high winds which will make it feel colder.  But hey, it is better than snow baby!!

Happy hooking and saying prayers for my friends.

Saundra

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