Happy May Day ~

 

May sure has gotten here quickly this year.  What am I saying?  Every year it gets here quickly!  Happy May Day to you.

I've finished binding The Poser ~ and have even sewn on the label.  It just needs a final light steaming.  Now the only thing left to bind is Ole Jack, but that biggie will have to wait until I return from rug camp.

I am closing in on the finish of Summer Glory, a sweet little pattern by Cammie Bruce (Baskets of Wool) that is only 13" x 16".  Given its small size, it should have been done already 😁  I am hoping to gift it to my dear college roomie next week.

Sweet little Johnny jump ups that my brother's DSO gifted me.  They were a favorite of my mom 💖

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Lauren

Piddly Stuff ~

As usual, a whole lottta nuthin' 😁

I have finished labeling my rugs from 2021.  Thankfully I have my blog to check what year I hooked a rug.  

I have started binding The Poser . . .

Even though we had snow at the beginning of the week, we did not go in to a deep freeze so the daffodils and hyacinth survived.  I mowed the yard today with a winter coat and gloves.  Tomorrow we will be in the 70's!

I am heading to rug camp in West (by God) Virginia in a couple of weeks.  I hope to make contact with one of my college roommates who lives just a couple hours away.  It will be wonderful if we can meet somewhere in the middle.  It has been far too long since I have seen her.  I need to quickly put something on the frame to gift her.  I have gone to my stash and think I have chosen a small mat that I should be able to finish.  Time will tell . . . sigh.  Leave it to me to wait until the last minute.  Hopefully I will have something to share soon.

Remember last month I reminded all my female readers to get their mammogram?  Well, my mammos have come back fine since 2010 (when I had my last biopsy).  This time, they wanted a recheck and possible ultrasound, on the right boob instead of the left.  The waiting is always stressful.  I had my appointments this week, and all appears good though they want to recheck in six months.  I can breathe again.

Now I hope this is a joke, but not sure if it is.  WTH???  The caption said it was men's fashion that was presented in Paris.

Sadly, that's all I have 😞

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Lauren

And the Pile Grows ~

I am referring to the binding pile.  On one hand, it is a good thing because it means I am getting things done.  On the other . . . UGH!  

Ole Jack.  I have not even started the prep to bind this big 'un.

The binding on these mats is at least started.

Nothing yet . . . 

Lots of sunflowers to finish.

And FINALLY ~ The Poser is hooked.  I am happy at the way it turned out but Cathy Stephan of Red Barn Rugs gets all the credit.  I started this in a class with her last June.  It was her excellent guidance and color plan.  I had hesitated starting the flowers.  She told me I was not allowed to leave class until one was started 😁.  Great advice.

Ernestine had a birthday ~ #10.  She is looking good but her face/chin sure are getting grey.  Thankfully she is in excellent health.

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Lauren

April Fools' Day ~

 

Slowly I am making progress on The Poser.  I am hooking a little background each day and also working on several other things.  I am liking the background and in person it is not showing up too light.  When that's done, all I will have left is to add maybe three rows of blacks to finish it off.  It was started in class last June, so it's about time.

Tomorrow I am off to a hook in.  Hopefully all the pandemic cancellations are behind us (though I am not too optimistic 😟).

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Lauren

Friyay ~

Well, if I was a working girl I would be so happy that today is Friday, but being retired (YEAH!) every day can be my Friday if I so choose.  I am so thankful to no longer be working.  There was an obituary in the paper the other day . . . a 67 year old woman, retired ONE MONTH, and she died unexpectedly.  I truly feel blessed as they say.  Last week I had a birthday.  I am still trying to figure out how I got to be this old, but hey, some people don't get to celebrate this milestone.

Somehow this week just disappeared (like most weeks) and I have been doing a little of this and a little of that.  We did have a nice day or two so a little more yard work has been accomplished.  The 10 day forecast is not too promising.

I am finally back to hooking on The Poser, an antique adaptation started in a class with Cathy Stephan last June.  I haven't decided if I like the light wool I am using around the chicken.  Sometimes it looks way too light (like in this picture).  Other times not so much.  It is actually four different grey-ish wools.

I am also working on some sunflowers that will be attached to old bedsprings.  A couple of them will go to my hooking guild as table favors for our hook in.

A fall design I am working on.  The border lines are not wonky like they look in the picture 😁  This is a very old free pattern from the Wool Cupboard and can be found here.

Finally . . . the dreaded binding.  Dancing Bunnies is first in the queue to be bound.  Ole Jack . . . well, who know when I will get to that.

I hope all is well in your little corner of the world.  

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Pug hugs 😊

Lauren

Spinning my Wheels ~

Once again, it feels that way.  I have been hooking daily, but feel I have accomplished very little.

I did get Goodnight Pumpkin bound and am close to finishing Scaredy Cat, but that is only 9" x 11 1/2".

An update on The Poser 😁  Not that much has been accomplished since my post a week ago, but now the only thing left to hook is background.  I am heading for the $20 Hooker retreat on the 10th of March, so I will hold off on the background until then.  Easy, no brainer hooking.  This was started back in June in a class with Cathy Stephan, so I will be glad to get this done.

My snowdrops and winter aconite are beginning to bloom.  Winter is by no means over in northern Ohio, but these are a welcome sight.  Daffodils are also peeking from the ground.

Boy can I relate to this!  My wool room is once again out of control.  There is wool piled everywhere . . . and not sure I have room on my shelves . . . but as any hooker will tell you, there is never the exact color you need.

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Lauren

Hooking at the Black Squirrel Inn ~

Getting away with hookers for the weekend is good for the mind and soul.  Lots of laughing, eating, (maybe a glass of wine or two), a bit of hooking but most of all friendship 💘

A throw down of the rugs being worked on.  Sadly one of the group left a day early and I did not get a picture of her rug.

Two hookers were working on patterns by Michelle Palmer.

I am in love with this face.

Door prize mats being hooked for the Crooked River Hook in.

Sweet Christmas rug.

Antique rug.  I didn't measure how large, but it is H.U.G.E. and she accomplished so much.

She was hooking this in an 8, cut on a Fraser cutter.  This 8 is as large as my 8.5 cut on my Townsend!

I always think I should get more hooked than I do.  You'd think by now I would learn, but I am happy with the progress made on The Poser.

Blogger ~ what can I say?  I think anyone who blogs knows that sometimes there are "issues".  A couple months ago emails stopped being sent when I leave a comment on a person's blog.  I didn't change any settings.  It is returned to me as an error.  I have no idea why and I know how annoying it is not to be notified and I apologize, but I have no idea how to fix it.  I think it may be my ISP, but you know what it's like trying to deal with speaking with someone halfway across the world.  

Another blogger thing ~ this time good.  For many years I have not known how many followers I have.  Suddenly today, there it is ~ 401.  It has come and gone before so I don't expect it to last . . . sigh.

Oh, my.  Today feels like spring.  60* and sunny.  Mother Nature is just being a tease because Thursday the high will be 28* with a chance of snow.

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Pug hugs 😊
Lauren