Love Birds ~

 

Love Birds is hooked, bound AND labeled.  Two 2022 class rugs done and one to go (that should take me all of a half hour to fix the eyes!).  It is actually a little more drab in person.  

This is the smaller of the two sizes that Sally Kalin offers.  It is 28" x 21".

In two weeks I will be at hooking class #2 of 2023.  I will be hooking another antique adaptation.  Teacher is Kris Miller of Spruce Ridge Studios.  She is always a fun time and has the best stories.

I finally broke down and took a sample of Miss Molly's urine to the vet.  Hopefully the amoxicillin will take care of it, but I am not too optimistic.  They did an in house test which does not give an indication of what antibiotic would work best.  Next step is to send it to the lab.  Last time it was sent to the lab, it was a $138 test.  She is definitely my million dollar baby 😖 

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Lauren

Back to Reality ~

 

I arrived home last evening from my little hooking get away with the Twenty Dollar Hookers in Millersburg, OH.  Always fun to get away for a few days but good to get back home.  Today I have been playing catch up.  Even being gone just 3 days there is a lot to do.  Thankfully the pug sitter had no issues with Molly other than the fact she was peeing almost non-stop yesterday.  I am hoping she doesn't have another UTI as they get very expensive!

I did get my two pumpkins bound . . . 

. . . and finished hooking Love Birds, started in a class last summer with Sally Kalin.  There are just a couple minor things to tweak . . .

. . . and hooked 6 circles for the centers of sunflowers that will be put on an old bed spring.  

I actually feel I was more productive than usual!

I even took some pictures of projects hookers were working on or had finished.  I will share those in the next post.

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Lauren

Back to . . .

Love Birds, an antique adaptation, is a rug I started last June in a class with Sally Kalin.  It had barely been touched since then, but it is finally time to finish it.  I was smart and did not "borrow" any of the wool to use on another project, but it was still hard to get a grip on what needed to be done.  I completed the hooking of bird #2 and now only have background left (other than a little tweaking), and I do like hooking background.  Hopefully this will be done sooner rather than later.

Next week the $20 Hookers are meeting for a few days so I need to plan my projects to take.  Maybe the hooking on Love Birds will be done so I can work on the binding.

Another RAINY day in Ohio . . . but you don't have to shovel rain.

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Lauren

Gypsy ~

Gypsy was started at Cedar Lakes Rug Camp in May.  I have pulled a few loops since my return from camp, but not for quite some time.  The wool I took to camp has never been sorted.  I should have removed the wool that was not going to be hooked in to the rug, but of course I did not.  Plus I "borrowed" a few pieces of the wool I used to put in other rugs I started.  Dumb, dumb, DUMB!  I have this entire large tote full of wool.  I really should sort through it and remove wool that will not be used.  Right now it is a hot mess.

I can't find a picture of what the rug looked like before I started hooking on it today.  I was not happy with part of the horse so I have been reverse hooking some of him.

I only have background left to hook on Fierce Lion - plus some serious work on his eyes.  I will take him to work on at guild Thursday.  No brainer hooking.

Next week the Twenty Dollar Hookers are meeting for a few days in Millersburg.  I will take Fierce Lion to finish and hopefully will make progress on Gypsy.  That will still leave me one rug in progress from a camp this year, Love Birds.  It, too, has been neglected.

I have often said I am a city dweller, but have woods nearby.  Deer are a huge problem.  It's not unusual to see them in the yard or walking down the street.  Last evening I was coming down the stairs and this young buck was approaching my bird bath that sits about five feet from the house.  I had to walk to the kitchen to get my phone and he was in no hurry to leave.

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Lauren

Back to Reality ~

It took me until 11:00 pm Wednesday to finally get packed and I remembered everything I was to take.  Normally I'd say we have 12-14 people at the retreat.  This time there was only 6 of us, but a good time was had by all.

Check out the name of this rug.  Isn't it fun?  Lee made great progress.

She chose the perfect wool for Samson!

Vicki is super hooker.  She started and finished this . . . in record time . . . and then was working on finishing some hearts she had cross stitched.  I purchased this pattern last winter so hopefully she has inspired me to hook it.  Saundra also hooked this last year.

These rugs were all started in the Sally Kalin class in June.

Melissa's sheep . . . 

Lynn's kitty . . . 

Carole's houses . . .

Part of my time was spent working on more applique pumpkins, but I finally found made time to hook a bit on Love Birds, also started in Sally's class.  

There is a very trendy shop downtown Millersburg.  I am no fashion maven.  Check these out.  I would not be caught dead in these (and I am sure they are outrageously expensive), but two of the hookers said their daughters would wear them.

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Lauren

Love Birds ~

I have made a (very) little progress on Love Birds.  I am trying to hook a half hour a day and I even have a hard time finding that much time to spare 😖

Saundra recently posted about using "ugly" wool and how wonderfully it can hook up.  Sally chose this wool and my first reaction was butt ugly.  But I love the way it hooked up!  It is in the triangle area to the right of the wool.  (Someday . . . sigh . . . I would love to learn to take better photos to capture the true colors of the wool.  The wool is darker than it is showing.)

A little more about the fragment rugs.  Several of you commented that you could not see anything special/different about the rugs.  When you actually view the rugs, you can see that they look O.L.D. and the feel is something you would not believe.  They are so soft and supple.  They just have an old look/feel to them.

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Lauren