The 'gathering' has begun and it is being collected in my office near the garage door.
Haven't packed my suitcase yet as I wanted to print out the 10-Day Weather Forecast for Cape May to see what will be needed. It looks to be a good week. I almost feel guilty for being thankful Florence didn't come upwards along the east coast. Poor folks and animals in North and South Carolina are being battered, some deaths, and will take a while for them to recover.
Okay, moving on to lighter topics.....
I weighed myself this morning before breakfast and am 125 pounds. Always want to see how much weight I gain at camp and then upon coming home work at getting back to that weight again. I do love the food there but choose to not eat the red meat or pork. My favorites are fish (particularly the salmon) and chicken if it is baked ~ no fried chicken even tho I hear it is delicious. Also yummy is their corn pudding and delicious homemade yogurt.
In the photo above you can see 9 rugs rolled up, that is the number of rugs completed since last year's Cape May camp. I'm not done with Lady the Donkey yet so she isn't among the rolled up rugs. But will take her to work on until Lucille gets to me.
Last year at Cape May I started On the Loose with Cammie Bruce, a design by Bev Conway.
When it was finished I drew and hooked an adaptation of a dog who I named Spike. I'm hoping my friend Evelyn will take hers as she started hooking it at Cape May last year.
Also hooked a smaller version of Magdalena's Goat. The first larger one true to the original size was hooked similar to Magdalena's. But the second smaller one thought I'd show folks a different color palate.
At Cape May last year I was lucky enough to purchase 1909 Horse pattern (by Emma Lou Lais) at a great price. It seemed to hook fast since it takes no time to finish a block and before you realize it the whole rug is hooked.
At Ocean City, MD last November I started Primitive Horse which is a pattern by Lib Callaway that I'd had for some time. That pattern seems to be the rage now so decided to pull mine out and hook it.
In an April class with Eric Sandberg I hooked this Nola Heidbreder's Flower Power design.
Next, itching to replicate an antique chose a design from the Kopp book which I named Radiant Flower.
With Cape May looming closer, was feeling the pressure to hook the "Sheep at the Beach". It was a pattern so generously given to each student at last year's Cape May rug camp. This is the design drawn on Monk's cloth, except there were no exterior lines. I drew those to not exceed beyond that to ensure room for binding.
This what I designed. It will be fun to see how others hooked their pieces and will take pictures of all of them to share with you.
And the last rug completed since last September is Stars and Diamonds antique adaptation. I hooked the sheep in short spurts while concentrating on the adaptation.
Will have my iPad with me so I'm only an email away. Not sure how successful I will be posting newly created blog posts while I'm gone but will try.
Saundra
Am holding off showing additional progress on Magdalena Goat so thought I'd entertain you with a few old rugs. So far this evening it seems I'm on the "Winter Blues" theme. Below is a rug with two horses and hearts said to be late 19th century from Pennsylvania. Hit and miss background and wonderful blotchy horses.
Below is a stitchery, not hooked but worth mentioning. It was hooked by Polly Bedford 'in the twelfth year of her age in 1991. Handiwork was proper back then, when I went to school in the 'olden days' 😏, we were taught how to sew and cook. Don't think many 12 year old girls today even know how to sew on a button.
The rug below is a simplistic design but I like it. It was documented as being hooked around 1890.
Don't have a date for the Blue Bowl of flowers below. Interesting is the cobalt blue base with lighter blue above. Was this planned or did she use what she had and placed the colors strategically?
The blue bunny rug below was dated 1900 and dimensions of the rug were 30 x 54.
Below is a Cat with blue stars. I wonder what those figure 8 motifs are. There must be some meaning because the same shape appeared in the recent rug I hooked (Primitive Horse). The rug below was dated at 1900 also.
This rug below I've drawn for Polly Minick to hook so have the paper pattern to use for myself. One day I'd like to hook it as well. Too many grandiose desires and so little time.
Last but DEFINITELY not least, is this dog design. Don't know if the initials "BUS" is of the hooker or the dog's name. But I've already sold two patterns even before hooking it myself so this is what will be on my frame next. I have named it "SPIKE" because of the collar and sounds like a proud name for a dog.
Interesting side note on the above rug is that Cammie Bruce said she placed a bid for it at the on-line auction house and didn't get back home to do a final bid before it was sold.
Happy hooking.
Saundra
