SLOW PROGRESS

At least to me it seems as tho I'm making slow progress.  Perhaps because this is bigger than I normally hook, and I don't care because I'm still having fun.  Yet Jo, Jenny and that whole group of gals hook rugs far larger than this and seem to finish them in less time; plus, they teach.  Guess I need a class in time management 😞  

Tomorrow I must clean downstairs to do a little Christmas decorating.  It won't be elaborate decorating, perhaps my Charlie Brown tree and the feather tree I made, will decide tomorrow.  But like Lauren said, it will do my heart good.  With all the decorating she does her heart must be full.

Heard on local news that Drones have invaded the lower eastern shore, not far from me.  A law enforcement officer whom is very respected said the government officials are saying nothing to him so had no information to provide.  

Enjoy the weekend, it's mighty cold here.

Saundra

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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

My plan was to do a blog post yesterday but didn't have something interesting to write about.  Here it is late evening and still don't have much to post so will just pretend you're my neighbor who dropped by to see what I've been up to the last couple days, lol.

Yesterday I drew a pattern for someone who wanted to hook the antique Santa and Deer pattern below.

As you can see, it is a very faded rug and poor photo from which to draw a pattern.  Oh I could guess and just change motifs to be what I think they are, but that wouldn't be a likeness of the antique.  Before drawing it I asked the buyer if she was sure, and did she want all the squiggles in the background.  The answer was 'yes'.

I wasn't sure if that was a date to the bottom right of the rug or not.  Since there are so many other lines, half circles, and lines it may not have been.  Anyway, I did a preliminary line sketch and sent it to her.  Told her perhaps I could find someone else to draw the pattern for her who may have a better photo of the antique and if she would like to change her mind?  The answer was 'no, I still want it'.

Well bless her heart for believing me and trusting her creativity which she will need.  The pattern was shipped yesterday and thank you Susan for your loyalty.

Before starting this post I went surfing thru some of my old blog posts looking for inspiration.  OMG!  Didn't find inspiration but did learn how neglectful I've been over my wool room.   Cannot believe how wonderful my wool room looked then but sure as heck doesn't look like that now.  Matter of fact I confided in Susan that before I could do her pattern I had to clean off my drawing table as it was piled up with wool.  I won't show you my present wool room as I'd be embarrassed.  If you want to see it on a good day ...years ago, check it out HERE.  

Yeah, years ago.  Just think how much more wool I've purchased since then and as much hooking as I do the wool still continues to mount up.  Perhaps if I were to spend a week organizing it again I'd be okay.  At times I even think of selling some wool on FB Buy and Sell.   OH, wait, I'm still banned for another 9 days for a reason I still don't understand.

That's all I got for tonight.  Listened to the weather and tomorrow's rain forecast just might bring Delaware off the drought list with a predicted couple inches of rain.  Woodland lake just might return before spring.

Saundra

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RUG SHOW

My selection of rugs is rather small but will show you a few I've saved.  With the exception of two found this week but will hold them til closer to Christmas as they are holiday related. 

Wish the person who listed this cute rug had placed it on the floor so the clothes pins didn't show.  It's a cute donkey pulling a wagon hooked late 19th century, so the listing says.  Size is 20 x 37.

Recumbent deer and leaves, no date or size.

Listed as a hearth rug and dated March 1852.

This rug below has a native American look to it I think.  Said to be from Canada, circa 1930-40.

A hit and miss geometric with 2 blue flowers, circa 1930.  The person must have been on psychedelic's when this was hooked.  Makes me dizzy just looking at it.

To calm your eyes, here is a pictorial hooked 19th century, 25.5 x 53.

And a rug with a similar color scheme ~ pinwheels, fans, circles hooked early 20th century and measures 30 x 49.

A view of the back on a corner.  Still amazes me how women back in the day would turn over the edge and hook through double thickness to secure the edge.  I'd love to try it but would require me to hook without a frame and don't think I could manage that.

A silhouette of 2 horses circa 1920 thought to be Mennonite 19 x 36.

Sorry it's nothing to write home about but at least it isn't another update of Animal Parade.  

Saundra

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STILL ON THE FRAME

Am still enjoying pulling loops on Magdalena's Animal Parade.   So no need for that plus one pattern yet.  I like everything so far but perhaps had a glitch which hasn't been worked out because of time restraints on wanting to post an update this evening.  It's the bird on the bottom left.

Here is a cropped image of the bird from the original rug.

Think the outline color I chose is too large and too red but hope to have that figured out before my next update.  I've taken a few liberties in my adaptation of this antique but that bold outline won't be one of them.

Wind gusts and low temperatures have been horrid last night and today.  I awoke with many limbs, some as large as my arm, broken over night.  The limbs behind the doors of my garage I removed but it was so cold and windy that I came back inside after that.  

Thank goodness my trash and recycle had been picked up yesterday or the trash would have been blown over and everything strewn throughout the neighborhood.  Temps will be lower than normal again tonight and weatherman says with the wind the feel real will be in the low teens.  Hello winter!

Hope you are keeping warm and entertained inside, happy hooking or whatever else makes yours bells jingle.

Saundra

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CHANGE OF PLANS

Had planned to give you an update on Magdalena's Animal Parade but changed my mind and decided to post a couple old rugs instead.

Don't have a date on this antique scrolls rug but you could put the family name in the center or Welcome or whatever else you choose.  Dimensions of this rug was 39 x 64.

Another of the antique rugs located at Cogswell Grant is this flower rug.  No date but for it to be at Cogswell Grant it must qualify as an antique.

I love horses and horse rugs but am not that crazy about this one~ too much border and not enough horse.  Yarn hooked 19th century, dimensions of 15 x 33.5.

A ship between houses, probably indicating a ship between two shores representing a sailor's life.  Hooked early 20th century and think someone did an adaptation of this but it is copyright free if you want to do your own adaptation.   

Hooked late 19th century is this awesome rug from the estate of Lisa Whittington.  The rug measures 40 x 64.

Sure hope I find some new rug auctions soon as I'm running out of rugs I really like and am always on the hunt for something interesting to hook.  Since I changed my mind and did this post on old rugs, guess what you'll see next post...yup, another update on the Animal Parade, sorry, 

It is FRIGID HERE!!!!!  Temperatures lower than normal for this time of year and expected to get down to 21* tonight but with wind will feel lower.  My propane kicked in a couple weeks ago when it reaches a low of 39* so within a couple more weeks will have to buy another tank $ $ $.

Saundra

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A LITTLE T & T

T&T translated means "This and That".  

Hard to comprehend it is December already; where did this past year go?  The seasons just sorta flew by but all those seasons are visible in the new lines on my face, lol.

Another Thanksgiving has come and gone, the calendar has been flipped to December so it is time to remove the hooked turkey rug from the harvest table and put something else in its place.  

It's too soon for Santa so will enjoy the Deer and Blue House I hooked plus the inside bird houses purchased at Rugs by the Sea camp.  They are made with discarded parts from the Chalfonte Hotel as repairs were made.   

But soon, too soon, the adaptation of Santa and Deer will appear in that spot.

My Thanksgiving baked chicken dinner was good.  While I wanted to pick up a few things at Walmart the next day decided it was unwise due to it being Black Friday and avoided the whole weekend.  So decided to make a T&T soup from my fridge and freezer.  

Personally I think vegetable soup is made much better with cabbage ~ could be because that's what my mother always said.  I only had a small wedge of cabbage left so chopped that up along with a little left over chicken breast, celery, onion, a couple potatoes, carrots and bits of this and that.  Was good but probably would have been better if I'd had more cabbage.

Back in the day when I vended at the beach area there were so many creative artists and the temptation to buy overwhelming.  This painted rock was just one of the many purchases I made.  But this isn't just any ordinary rock.

This was one of hundreds of rocks used as ballast in a British War Ship which sunk off Lewes, Delaware.  The artist attached this inscription to the bottom of all her work.  If you want to learn more about the HMS DeBraak click HERE.

That's it for this post, happy December and happy hooking.

Saundra

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MAGDALENA'S ANIMAL PARADE UPDATE

Not a lot of progress but some is better than none.  Besides, might as well get used to seeing slow progress as I'm sure this one won't be completed until sometime into 2025.  Sheesh, the new year is  only 32 days away.

For the heck of it thought I'd take a photo with a different camera and I don't see much difference in color.

Although I have a 'plus one' drawn, this rug has kept my interest with so many different motifs.  Maybe when it gets down to just background or binding I'll need something to rejuvenate my mojo.  

Happy hooking.

Saundra

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 Wishing all of you a Happy Thanksgiving and that your turkey, dressing and pumpkin rolls turn out perfectly 😉.  Below is a rug I hooked which was in an old Needl'love publication.

And a few antique turkey rugs to entertain you as well.  I love the colors of this first one.

Another with turkeys and chicken.

A gaggle of feathers and fur.

Below are a couple of rabbits thankful turkeys will be on the menu and not themselves.

Saundra

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SOME OLD RUGS

With Thanksgiving this week it is befitting this Thankful rug to be shown first.  Said to be hooked late 19th century with dimensions of 33.5 x 50.  

Below is a winter scene hooked by the late Georges-Edouard Tremblay who was also an artist.  

Eight point stars with a hit and miss background, no date but measures 34 x 68.

A horse named TOBE given a date between early 19th to early 20th century. 

A "Welcome" rug and wonder if the person who hooked it has a dog and cat or if she is suggesting that all creatures great and small are welcome? 😏

A ginormous wool stitched bed rug Joseph and Olive Abbott Mar 22, 1775 which measures 83 x 88.  That had to keep the young lady busy for many months me thinks.

Below is a close up of the true colors and stitching.  She even stitched the background, those aren't flowers and stems stitched only.

An oval in rectangle hooked early 20th century on burlap.  I wondered if the corner was missing or turned over and the photographer didn't fix it.

A rooster on fence, 20 x 34 hooked 19th century.

Wishing all of you a warm and happy Thanksgiving.

Saundra

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MISC. CHIT CHAT

Way back in April I started hooking a sunflower to make into a pillow for my DILs May birthday.  Lost my momentum interest so gave her something else and decided to make the sunflower pillow as a Christmas gift with more months to work on it.  The purchased pillow insert was too big so made my own with cotton fabric and leftover stuffing from the dollmaking days.  So now all I have to do is stitch the opening closed and voila, a gift for the sunflower loving DIL.

I know sunflowers are a summer flower but her family gave her sunflower themed items last year for Christmas so I won't feel badly giving her this.

Make sure to ship your Christmas gifts early this year as USPS hasn't seemed to become any better.  Remember the rug I sold and shipped on 11/12?  It was shipped to Lafayette, Louisiana via Priority and delivery was estimated to be 11/15.  I kept checking the tracking number but the USPS info seemed to be stalled at "delivery late 11/14 on way to next destination".

I contacted the USPS earlier this week asking if the package had been delivered.  Thought perhaps it had been delivered but the postal person hadn't scanned the label to indicate it had been.  Just this evening (10 days after shipping)Troy contacted me saying the rug had arrived and was nicer in person than the photo.  Well of course I was ecstatic it arrived and more so he was happy.  But why did it take 10 days????

While perusing various places for antique hooked rugs I came upon something which gave me pause and then a chuckle.  It wasn't so much the 'speedy hooker' ad or the prices of the burlap for hooking rugs.  It was the price of the look-alike Hartman hook for 20 cents for which we now pay up to $48.  Unfortunately I don't know the date of this ad but wow the difference in price.

I've never been to a fortune teller for fear of what negative info they might provide, although don't think they'd give bad news outright.  Have never had my hand read by a professional either.  But I did try reading my own palm when discovering how to read your own palm.

To read either photo better click on the photo.

Windy, rainy and COLD outside.  My heat just shut off and within a minute came back on  It may have gone from heat pump to propane which is a warmer heat.  Tomorrow might be a tad better but winter has just begun.  Cover up buttercup.

Saundra

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JUST THE BEGINNING

Yes, it's at least a start and with the pending weather I'll have plenty of time to pull some loops without feeling guilty for not working in the yard.  Weatherman said with the cold front coming in there will probably be thunder around 10 p.m. when the cold hits the warm like a tone of bricks.  We will get rain but not enough to cause flooding but probably not enough to cure our drought either.  But at least some rain but with some high winds so there will be limbs to pick up after it is over.

Anyway, so far I've just used wool from my woolie worms and will continue to do that until the colors I need aren't handy.

In case you'd like to see the original Magdalena Animal Parade rug here it is below.

Well hell's bells.  The wool I chose is much too bright compared to Magdalelna's, but sure seemed it worked when sitting under the OTT light and checking the photo.  Actually looking at the paper print out as well as the rug on my iPad.  How could I have made such a drastic error in color choices?

So I just might be 'beginning again' tomorrow.  Perhaps the rest of the evening I'll work on binding the Giant Flower rug while I ponder whether to rip out what I've hooked or just decide that it is, after all, an adaptation of an antique.  Hope I'll come to a decision as I "sleep on it".

Saundra

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RUGS FROM LONG AGO

As there's not much to show yet on the new rug pattern, thought I'd do an antique rug show.  First up is a dog with scrolls hooked late 19th to early 20th century.   

Stars and Stripes dated 1900's.  If you tap on the rug you will see more clearly the Uncle Sam, the eagle and smaller flags.

An attractive footstool top dated 1830.  

A worthy wife as defined in this Hutchinson style rug hooked around 1930.

A diamond center with birds, sorta makes you feel like you're in the twilight zone looking at it.  The auction house said 19th century but seems a tad too bright to be hooked before 1900. 

A playful cat with someone's yarn, on oval rug circa 1930's.  

Red rooster rug (say that 3 times fast) dated 1890.  Appears to have damage at the bottom border.

This 3 gal. stoneware crock would make a nice hooked rug, circa 1850.

That's it for this post.  Hope you have something to keep your mind and hands active.

Was a lovely warm day at 65* but heard on the news there just might be a couple "S" flakes this weekend.  I hate to put the whole word in here because I don't want to lose followers, lol.

Saundra

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