Am SO close to pulling the last loop but just not pulling fast enough. Grass cutting, pulling weeds and trimming bushes has kidnapped me. The end is near on this gift to my grandson and so glad to have started hooking it months ahead of time.
You regular readers are aware of the worry and struggles with having enough blue background. Now there is only that section at the bottom which requires blue and think what I have left will work.
The hero piece of wool was unexpected. I'd already tried dying wool from the same recipe twice with poor results. As a last resort I went thru a bag of wool which was given away last year at Cape May rug camp.
Matter of fact, at that camp my friend Deb searched me out as the mound of wool had already been rummaged thru before I was aware of the free wool.
Seems sweet Linda Woodbury was giving away wool stash she was tired of. In that stash I found a piece of wool which was used to hook the outer edge of the blue background. That freed up the rest of limited blue and think I'm gonna be okay.
I'm pleased with both the Redskins logo as well as the Orioles. The Nascar flags are okay too, at least Zach will recognize them for what they are.
Thanks Linda for your contribution and looking forward to seeing you, Norma and kris in September, along with all my other hooking buddies.
Saundra
I've fiddled a little with my grandson's design again.
Instead of two crossed checkered flags have decided to do the line up of all the different types of flags which are used at Nascar races. I've never been to a race but did learn about the flags on the internet. The green flag starts the race, yellow is to caution there may be debris on the track, a red flag tells drivers to stop on the track in a designated area, black flag tells that driver to get off the track since he did something wrong.
A blue with yellow stripe tells the driver there is a fast approaching car about to pass and the driver must yield to that vehicle. A white flag tells the lead car he or she has one lap to go in the race.
The black and white checkered flag at the lead car means he has won the race.
Additionally I enlarged the motifs as well as Zach's name. For comparison, below is what I'd originally drawn on the linen. But the flags over powered the small motifs and the flags were longer than they should be.
With the linen flipped over I'm still considering the possibility of drawing the new design. Don't want to be too hasty this time so meanwhile I've the small cat mat to work on.
Have a great Thursday, and for those wondering, Ben is doing great. He is back to his normal self and challenges me in a play position but since he isn't supposed to rough house for a week am not promoting the play thing.
Saundra
