Not a Tease ~

The little snippet of the corner of my rug in the last post was not meant to be a tease.  It is a corner of the rug, Yellow Bird, started in a class with Kris Miller in September.  It is a pattern by Ann Willey that Kris sells on her website, Spruce Ridge Studios.

It looks like the last time I posted the rug on my blog was early in November and this is what it looked like then.

I pulled a few more loops after that and here is where I left off.

The true color is somewhere between the two pictures, but closer to the first one.  I probably have not hooked on it since mid November so I guess it's about time to get busy on it.  I have too many unfinished rugs from classes (and will have another class in March).

Please keep my son J in your prayers.  He just finished chemo round #3 yesterday and was feeling pretty lousy when I picked him up.  A two week break and than another five days of chemo and hoping that will be it.  It is not easy seeing a child, no matter the age, going thru this.  At 43, he is still my baby boy.

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Lauren

Quickie Post ~

 

So I am off for a quick little hooking get away with the Twenty Dollar Hookers in Millersburg.  I haven't been for the last year and things have been so crazy for months, I am just driving down tomorrow morning and returning Saturday evening.

What am I going to work on???  Have I started to pack???  Of course not!  

I did finish this little mat titled Nose to Nose by Baskets of Wool (Cammie Bruce) which is a Christmas gift.  Maybe I can get started on the binding?

I most likely will take Yellow Bird, a pattern offered by Spruce Ridge Studios that I started in a class with Kris Miller.  I haven't hooked on it in weeks.

I did hook this fun little flower.  Other than that, no accomplishments to share 😞  Kit can be purchased from the Wooly Horse to make several of them.

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Pug hugs 😊
Lauren

Kris Miller Class ~

I had another great class with Kris Miller of Spruce Ridge Studios.  The focus of the class was letters (ARGH!!!) and eyes (double ARGH!!!).  Kris did a great job teaching us how to do both and helping us along.

Kris brought some of her rugs that featured one or both of the topics.

Darn!  I love this rug.
I wish I had chosen it as my class project!

Kind of hard to see, but check out the fun border she put around the crow rug.  Two rows of beading and two more rows of wool used in the rug and then whipped with a coordinating color yarn.

I wasn't sure how I was going to hook the skirt on my rug.  I knew I didn't want that spider web effect of the rug that was hooked by the designer, Ann Willey.  

Sue (Vernon Junction) brought her rug to show me.  It was a Notforgotten Farm pattern, but since Sue doesn't "do" Halloween, she adapted it.  I love the way she hooked the dots on the dress.  It was something to consider for my rug.

Isn't she just too sweet?

Sue also brought her Warm Friendship rug because someone in the class was also hooking it.  She has not yet done the binding because she is hoping to find someone to teach her to add several rows of braids around it.

I need to trim some of my ends and hopefully finish the face before sharing my rug.

I know Saundra (Woodland Junction) and Cathy (Acorn Hollow) have been having issues with comments and was so happy I was not . . . until I was.  Comments were just not quite right on my last post and I only am showing five comments.  I am guessing there were a few more so please, if you commented, let me know.

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Pug hugs 😊
Lauren