Binding Mission Accomplished

Thankfully I met my deadline to finish binding two rugs before the new year.  And tho we were not doing a challenge, my blogger friend Lauren (Rugs and Pugs) beat me to the punch.  Now we are ready to move onto new hooking projects going into 2017.

Below is the Red Lion, an antique adaptation purchased from Norma Batastini of Heart and Hand.   Tho a terrible photo flash of a picture below it does have the blotchy background I love so much.  

For comparison of color, the label shows the original color of the red lion.  AND....you can see the difference in color of wool on the back compared to the photo above.  

Out in the Garden is a design by Maggie Bonanomi.  I used the same brown wool as in the lion rug.  This first photo shows up much brighter because of the flash (as in the Red Lion above).  

Here is the label attached to the back ~ and this photo shows a much better true coloring on what was used for hooking.

I'm so looking forward to working on the Stubbs antique and even tho it was started in 2016 will be recorded as a rug from 2017.  

However, I've been thinking about what rugs will be in my future. There will be a camp with my beloved Barb Carroll in May, then Cape May in September and camp in November.  So already am thinking what to work on at each camp.

Have a great evening.... HEY... do you have your black eye peas or your pork and sauerkraut yet???  What is YOUR New Years Day tradition?????

Saundra

The Status of Two Rugs and Everything Else

Yahoo...... just finished pulling the last loops on Out in the Garden, a design by Maggie Bonanomi and offered in pattern form by Blackberry Primitives.  The first picture is using the flash and of course is showing up brighter than it really looks in person.  But the pixels are larger and will show you great detail if you tap on the photo.

The picture below is taken with the 'automatic' settings exposure so the flash did not go off.  However, I'm standing under the ceiling lights and you can see my shadow on the left side of the rug.

Sweet follower Jennie of GA told me she is able to adjust the lightness and darkness to adjust her photos...not sure if that was on her iPhone or computer.  So on my PC checked but could only find a Paint program which has no dark or light adjustment that I can see.  Remember tho, I'm nearly computer illiterate. 

The Red Lion is almost bound and since that is not a favorite task of mine seems to take me as long to bind a rug as it does to hook one. Good news is that both rugs are hooked and will be bound in 2016.  

So now I'm really, really getting excited to start something new.  I know what it is but not gonna tell you (Kim) HA, that gets you back for hooking a pattern and not showing us everything and making me (us) wait and guess.

Okay, here's the "everything else" part so if not interested you're free to leave........

Tomorrow, thank gawd, is my second eye cataract surgery.  While I'd requested morning surgery (I really don't like missing my meals) there's no food after midnight tonight, no liquids after 7:30 am and my surgery won't be until the afternoon.  I'm not supposed to show up until 1:40 p.m. so who knows when surgery will take place.

My right eye was fixed October 10th and here it is almost 2 months later for the other one.  Since that time it seems I can see driving better without glasses.  Yet at the computer or in front of the TV while hooking I'm wearing my glasses down my nose.  

Am sure readers will be needed after tomorrow's surgery but will NOT do the reader thing.  Instead I'll buy prescription bifocals with the clear at the top and readers at the bottom.  No putting on and taking off for close work.  Am hopeful tomorrow's surgery will go as smoothly as in October.

Have a great evening.

Saundra

Update on Out in the Garden

Was so hoping to get this piece all hooked before the end of November but didn't happen.  It was started at rug camp on the afternoon of November 7th so guess it's not too bad with timing ~ just a tad of background and border.  This is a design by Maggie Bononami and offered by Blackberry Primitives. 

Believe it or not the white in the three flowers is not as bright as it shows here.  It has threads of a caramel color woven in and thought it would be perfect for the light in the flowers.  However, the other white in the background is an unhooked area.....am sure you figured that out all by yourself.

If I can manage to remove the hook from my hand tomorrow there might just be a different project posted about.... wait and see.

Have a great evening, the two day mild weather has been great here but as so saddened for the folks in Tennessee.

Saundra

Out in the Garden

Figure it is about time to show an update on my slow progress on hooking my camp rug.  But then there was the Thanksgiving holiday which slowed me down.

Below is a photo using the flash of my Sony digital camera.  This sometimes works for me and sometimes not.  The photo shows the colors more bright than in person but not neon like Debbie's Horse yesterday.

Since I have a setting on my camera for 'automatic' thought I'd take a photo using that.  Here is the result.  The rug actually looks closer to somewhere in between.

For you pixel photo knowledgeable the first photo size is 1.87 MB and the second photo 99.6 KB.  As the saying goes....'frankly Scarlett I don't give a damn'.  Since I'm not a photo journalist or professional photographer my digital camera will do just fine for my needs.  

Am pretty sure this rug will be all hooked before January and then there will be two rugs to be bound before starting the next one.  Red Lion also still needs to be bound ~ started it but more to do. 

Happy Saturday.

Saundra

Update on My Camp Rug

Ya might think I'd be done hooking this project by now after arriving home last Thursday evening.  But nope.  Here is what my Maggie Bonanomi rug looks like now.

That really isn't a white wool in the flowers; actually it has flecks of tan in it but because of the flash everything shows up brighter, especially that wool.

Guess you can see that I've already started re-drawing leaves and border lines.  But I'm so indecisive even the last drawn lines might change.  

The Red Lion rug is still patiently waiting for my attention with just the background to finish.  There's probaly less to hook on the Red Lion than on this rug, so who knows what you will see next.

Have a great evening and please be kind to one another.  It isn't just kids who bully, now even adults bully.  Stop it.  Take a deep breath and do something which diverts your attention and gives you pleasure.  For me, it is hooking and loving my boy Ben.

Saundra

Preparing for Rug Camp

This morning after breakfast decided to start pulling wool for my next camp project, Which is Out in the Garden, a design by Maggie Bonanomi and offered by Blackberry Primitives.  I didn't see a picture of the pattern on the web site so maybe you need to contact her for a restock.

This is the wool I'm taking as options for some of the motifs in the pattern.  NOTE: the wool colors you see on the screen are not at all what it looks like in person.  Those lemon yellow pieces are not yellow. Crazy what a flash does to wool.

Lynne, hope you will drop by my table to look at this wool and notice the difference in color between this picture and the eye.  

So, when I was trying to put back the wool from September's class and pull wool wanted for this class it required that I re-stack the wool. OMG, If I ever buy another piece of wool I hope someone shoots me.  Hmm, well  not really shoot me but slap me up beside the head for sure.

As you can see there is a lot more work needed to get the wool room orderly.  I've certainly started a mell of a hess in that room for sure. And now with only 6 days and a wake-up to go before camp.

Am totally looking forward to the last of my camps for the year.  I only attend 3 camps per year and enjoy each one.  

Good Sunday and good evening to all.

Saundra