Millersburg Rugs ~

So many wonderful rugs were being worked on at the Millersburg retreat.  I took more pictures than normal, but still missed some of the rugs.

Show and tell . . . completed rugs that were brought and shared.

Stubbs' Runner ~ so long I had to take two pictures.

I have this reproduction pattern.  One day I need to think about hooking it 😁

This rug was completed at the retreat.  Beautiful colors!

And another retreat finish.

Some of the rugs being worked on ~

So much talent!!!

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Lauren

Thank a Veteran ~

 

Please take a moment today to thank a veteran for his/her service.    Many have paid the ultimate sacrifice so that we may remain free.  May God bless our soldiers and may God continue to bless America.

Just a quick finish to share with you.  I am happy to finally have this small project completed . . . that took about forever.  It will be gifted on Thanksgiving Day.

Today I am most thankful for our veterans.  

Freedom isn't free.

I am also thankful that tomorrow I leave for a 4 day hooking retreat.  Dear friend Lynn has once again organized the retreat at the Hotel Millersburg.  Four days of friendship, hooking and lots of laughter.  We are known as the Twenty Dollar Hookers 😍😍😍

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Lauren

Off to Another Protest ~

I feel so fortunate to be heading off to yet another hookers' protest, once again in Millersburg, OH.  Organized by the same hooker as the retreat, this is a two day class with Caroline Twigg of Eagles' Nest Woolens.  I've had her before and she is just so much fun 😊

As always, I agonized over a pattern choice and finally decided on Anne Nichols 1847 Turkey which has been on my bucket list for many years and on linen for two.

Progress has been made on Jack's Crow but I thought I'd be done by now . . . sigh.  I just don't know where the time goes.

Have I mentioned I hate change?  Well, this new blogger interface is giving me fits!!!  I don't want to resort to the old because that will soon disappear.  😡😡😡  I finally figured out how to delete a picture.  That took a while.  Font size is also an issue imho.  "Normal" is smaller than I like, but this next size is too big.  

Thanks so much for stopping by (and listening to me whine).

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Lauren

Almost Heaven ~

 ~HOOKER HEAVEN ~

We are known as the Twenty Dollar Hookers and just spent three + days hooking in Millersburg, Ohio.  Friendship.  Laughter.  Lots of laughter.  I laughed more in the last few days than I have in the last 6 months.  

As usual, I took very few pictures.  Here are a couple rugs being worked on.  

Tammy's antique sheep.  Pattern by the Wool'n Gardner.  This pattern is HUGE!

Melissa's rug.  Pattern by Red Barn Rugs and started in a class with Cathy Stephan.

Tanya's completed antique sheep pattern.

She is an over achiever :)  The next two rugs are also hers.

Lee's fun rug.

Heidi needle felted the snake about an inch high.  I love that green against the white and black.

Another of Heidi's rugs.

This statue was in front of the courthouse near the hotel.  I thought we should try to topple it with wool . . . lol.  When I told my boys I was attending a hookers' protest, my younger son told me to make sure we broke a few windows and burned a police car or two so that people would believe it's a peaceful protest.  Out of the mouths of babes . . . but this babe is 39 years old :)

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Lauren

Hookers' Protest ~

Thursday I am off for the 3rd annual hooking retreat in Millersburg, OH.  (Edited . . . I forgot to mention it is for FOUR days.)  Since even small gatherings are discouraged and frowned upon, friend Lynn who put it all together is calling it a hookers' protest, since thousands can protest and that seems to be OK.  (Am I being politically incorrect once again?)

I am not taking anything too exciting to work on.  I will bind the mat for the footstool.  I should finish the border on the Tree of Life this evening and will take that to bind, too.  I was just going to put two rows of red . . . 

. . . but now in looking at the picture, I am leaning towards three.  Opinions, please!

Also planning on taking a couple little fall pieces to work on.  Like I said, nothing too exciting and no brainer kind of stuff.

In the last couple of days, the crickets have started chirping like crazy.  To me, that is a harbinger of fall :(

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Lauren

I Should Have Known Better ~

I was just a bit (now that's an understatement!) optimistic about what I would accomplish on my Sauder retreat this past weekend.  I had started this before leaving . . . 

. . . and finished the hooking at the retreat.  Sunday I "finished" it.  I just turned back the linen and stitched it down before putting it in this old drawer.  It is about the size of an old sewing machine drawer, but not nearly as deep.  The plan is to change it out seasonally, but we know about good intentions ~ haha.  I am most pleased at how it turned out.

I also had plans to finish the border on McMinn Antique, bind Vintage Blossoms and start on True Hearts.  Well, that sure didn't happen :(  I got about half the border hooked on McMinn and never started binding the rug until I got home, nor did I start True Hearts.  Such is the story of my life, but hey, I had a great time at Sauder so that is all that matters.

I was going to show a picture of McMinn Antique, but Molly climbed up on the frame and I didn't have the heart to move her.

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Pug hugs :)

Lauren

Maryland Retreat ~

Partner in crime Melissa and I headed 5+ hours to Maryland this past weekend for a hooking retreat with Caroline Twigg of Eagles Nest Woolens.  It was worth the drive.  We both had a fun time with lots of laughs, eating and even some hooking.

Here are some of the rugs being worked on.  I swear my phone "ate" some of the pictures and they can't be found and looking at the pictures I have, wish I had taken lots more.

Angie finished her rug, Carnival, based on a painting by David Galchutt.

Melissa finished her antique adaptation started in a class with Caroline in October.

Tanya was working on this antique adaptation started with Kris Miller at camp in Ocean City, MD.

Caroline started the same pattern but opted for a black sheep.

I want to be like Joanne when I grow up :)  This delightful octogenarian was working on an antique adaptation by Jan Cole of the Wool'n Gardener . . .

. . . and this rug started in a class with Kris Miller.

Lynn continued working on this pattern by Caroline.  Lynn hooks high using mostly 9 - 10 cuts.  It feels so good underfoot.

Nada brought her finished Sparhawk.  The picture does not do it justice.

I will share what little hooking I got done in my next post.

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Pug hugs :)

Lauren