Happy Presidents' Day ~

 

One more heart rug I forgot to show on my last post.  An antique adaptation hooked 8 years ago.  Wow, as I always say, time sure is flying.  This is in the upstairs bathroom in front of the vanity.  It was color planned in a class, but I am not wild about how it came out.  To the left you can see my lovely pink tile 😛  I am  hoping to have the room remodeled this year, but haven't yet figured out what I want to do.

The eagle mat is finished except for the label.  It was bound by folding the linen forward and whipping with wool.  I find it very tedious and hard on the fingers to get the wool worms through the linen.  Plus to get good coverage, I ended up with a very curly edge.  (The color in this picture is more accurate than the next one.)

Thankfully a good steaming worked miracles!!!

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Lauren

Finally ~

 

This little chairpad should not have taken two weeks to hook, but it did.  Oh, well.  At least my majestic eagle is now finished, the hooking part that is.  I have never finished a round piece with worms, but that is how Katie Hartner showed us to finish it.  Hopefully I can get all the excess linen eased in so my little mat will lie flat.

That's it for today.  The sun is shining (shock!) but it is still only 17*.  I dyed some wool today.  I'm pretty sure two of the three colors are not what I was hoping for.  Darn.

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Lauren

Sloooow hooking ~

 

In the stitching world, slow stitching is a good thing.  In the hooking world, I have never heard anything positive said about it!  

My Magdalena eagle chair pad, only 13" diameter, has taken me almost 2 weeks and I am not yet done.  Close, but no cigar as they say.  It was started in a Facebook class with Katie Hartner of the Woolley Fox/A Nimble Thimble.  It should have been hooked long ago.  Yes, I have hooked a few other little things in that time, but this should have been long D.O.N.E!!!

Am I happy with it?  Yes.  (So why have I been dragging my feet?)  I learned much in the class and hope I will put lessons learned to good use in future projects.

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Lauren

Hook-y stuff ~

 

My hooking is all over the place.  I can't seem to concentrate on any one project.  I have not pulled even one loop on my camp rug since returning home.

While waiting for my turn with the teacher at camp, I almost got this red hand torn heart hooked that will be turned into a small pillow.  I also hooked a very neutral one upon return home.

I started hooking some small hearts that I will stuff and sit in an old bedspring to hopefully sell at the antique/primitive show I am vending at in April along with Sue.  My goal is to hook one a day for a week.

Maple Sugar Hearts that I started weeks ago is nearing completion.  I think I want one more row of border and not sure if the heart on the right, second from the bottom needs to be changed.  It is showing up brighter in the pic than it really is.

And finally, Katie Hartner of the Woolley Fox is teaching a class on Facebook on mastering values.  We chose one of nine chairpad patterns.  We had a class on Saturday and will have another next Saturday.  Perhaps I am overthinking my color choices and agonizing over them.  I am working only from my worm stash.  Here's the progress on my eagle.  I am happy with him so far.

The four letter word I do like is HOOK.

We got much less snow than many other areas, but love this little vignette by the garage.

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Lauren