A Rug Hooking Kind of Day

 

My days of rug hooking will become a way of the past. I noticed leaves on our trees in the upper branches this morning. So I will have a hula hoe attached to my hand rather than a rug hook. I read in the biography of John Muir that he thought California had two seasons. Spring and Summer. Though summer lasted from May until mid November. At the time, I thought, No, that can't be true, can it? Now, I am in agreement with him. All of this drought stuff that the news is always crying about, well it is true, it is dry, but it is normal occurrence. John Steinbeck quipped when I was reading last week in East of Eden, that in years when there was 30 inches of rain, everyone was a rich man. So, that is my thoughts on California.

Now onto what I did yesterday. I drew out rugs. I drew rugs until I ran out of backing and red dot tracer. I feel like a very rich miser counting my money today. When Kessie was here in July, I would tell and show her what I wanted and she would draw it for me. I love the way she draws and all of her designs make me happy. She is coming home in March for a week, so I need to get more ideas for rugs for her to draw.

Here are what I drew out.

Adapted from Laurel Burch cats

I have this statue above my kitchen sink

This is from a weather vane. I like her because she isn't a skinny mermaid.

This is my Nantucket Sleigh Ride rug, I was reading a journal of a sea captain that hunted whales.

I did draw this one myself.

Guineas 

These are the other rugs I have drawn out, I have nine rugs to hook now.

Here are the rugs I worked on this week.

This one is all bound and steamed.

Same for this one.

This one is on my frame.

This is a rug from Robin, Bird in Hand Primitives. 
It was from one of her little booklets. I am in love with her primitive designs.  Someone asked me how many rugs I had done. I didn't have a clue, nor could I remember when I started hooking rugs. I have finished 42 rugs now, and I started hooking rugs in the summer of 2011. That surprised me. One that I had hooked that many, and two that it was only 2011 when I started.

Okay, after a whole post of shameful self promotion I will stop here. I hope your weekend is a lovely one.
No rain here yet. Just clouds. It seems the cone of silence has settled in.

Have a lovely day,
~Kim~

" God always meets us in prayer...He meets us because we invite Him to be with us, believing like  children
that our Father loves us. Our praying is not some kind of internal dialogue or an exercise in futility.
God is listening."
---Elisabeth Elliot---
(Be Still My Soul, p.112)