Binding Rugs

 

I hope you have had a wonderful week so far. Most of my weeks fly by, but this week has taken its own sweet time. Next week Ron will be on vacation and we will have the house all to ourselves, as the boys go back up to Santa Cruz to be camp counselors again. I am so looking forward to being just us for a week. Kinda like a honeymoon. ;) We always manage to get in some kind of mischief when we are home alone. Last year we caught the smoker on fire.  No one catches a smoker on fire. It should be fun.

 

I have almost three rugs bound this week.  The biggest rug, the Mermaid rug will take a bit of time as it is a huge rug.

Here is a bit of my work.

 

I should finish this one today and get it steamed. I start to get panicky when I have unbound rugs, stacking up.
I have two new patterns on my frames. I dyed wool this week so I am ready to go, but I had to get the binding done before I can pick up my hook.

 

 I finally got Faded Glory bound. This was just experiment from start to finish. I dyed the wool using other darker red and blue in hot water and let it sit. I love how those colors turn out using that method. I will be trying it again.

I finished this one of Cathy Greschner patterns! 

I do enjoy her patterns so much. The whole time I am hooking them I feel like I am smiling. I was trying to use up my worms-my left over pieces of wool. I didn't make a dent in the bags I have but it is fun to try and use them anyway.

This is my mermaid rug. It was a test for me. Also very challenging as water is hard and then all of the letters.
The words are loosely copied from A Midsummer's Nights Dream.

"And heard a mermaid on a dolphins back, uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, that the rude sea grew civil at her song; and certain stars shot madly from their spheres to hear the sea-maids music."

I think it will look lots better bound and re-steamed. This one will be one I have to put away for awhile as all I see are the mistakes. I did that what is is called, you know when you rip it out, oh yea, reverse hooking. Three times. I just had to finally stop. 

This is the middle of July and I have so many summer rugs I wanted to get done. I am ready to start doing fall rugs.

Just a bit of what I got done this week. I hope to start on the mermaid rug binding, today. After my work of course.

I hope you have a lovely Thursday,
~Kim~

 

"Garnet found a silver thimble in the sand by the river and she was sure it had magic, for the summer had proved exciting and interesting in so many different ways. There was the coming of Eric, an orphan and such a nice addition to the family; the building of a new barn with money loaned by the government; and the fair at which Garnet's carefully tended pig won a blue ribbon and three dollars and a half! Every day brought pleasure of some kind to Garnet of the flying pigtails, for she was bursting with energy and good spirits and she loved the outdoors and growing things."

Elisabeth Enright---Thimble Summer