Rugs 2025/26

 

 

I finally got my I cloud pictures back. If I blogged all of the time I would notice things like that. So the fault is all mine. We took a quick beach trip in October and had the loveliest time. Perfect weather and camping was just perfect. I did take pictures, so I could have new ones to post and I did think I would come home and I would write a blog. Then of course, life happens. 

 

I will post a few of my 2025 rugs. I did write so many blogs on my favorite rug of 2025 so I won't go on and on about it. It was a challenge for myself and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  

 

I think it was because a friend of mine did our family genealogy which had always been sort of a mystery and I found out that the majority of the family had been farmers. So I had stories and pictures in my head. So this was the rug. 

 

I was able to finish this rug at the beginning of spring in 2025. I put it away and when I got it out I remembered how fun it had been to make it, in the winter while I was dreaming of April. I bought this off of Etsy and it is by Whimsy Rugs and its called April showers. 

 

I started this rug in October thinking it was such a small project I could do it in two weeks. Ha! I finished it the other night. It is the next rug to bind.

This is a pattern from Cotton Wood Creek. I enjoy doing this rugs and the way she has them on fabric so I can draw the pattern out myself. Not really happy with the colors but I am glad its almost finished.

 

Then last of all my challenge rug from Saundra at Woodland Junction . My husband drew it out for me and then life went completely crazy. We had to go to Arizona because of a health scare of our son in law. 

It seemed every time I picked up a rug hook, I would get a phone call and I would put the rug away. I have to be in a certain state of mind to be creative and stress causes my brain to just curl up and go away. I decided I would get this rug finished no matter how many things happened or the phone rang. It because sort of a test for me. Could I push my brain to do what was required? When I steamed it yesterday. It was sort of a victory for me. So against all odds. My challenge rug.

On Friday morning, Jan. 2nd. I had decided I would finish this rug. I had picked up my hook, put a piece of wool in my hand. My phone rang. I looked and it was our youngest son, and I knew something bad had happened. My mind, yelled  Oh no! I shot an arrow prayer up ward and said, please God. I answered saying, are you hurt? He was in the emergency room, he was okay but his car was totaled. At 6:24 A.M. he was on his way to work, in the middle of the intersection a woman ran a red light and there was a wreck. Thankfully his car a Tesla even though damaged beyond repair, it I think kept him alive from the impact. 
  He was bruised and cut and thankfully alive. We talk about that one second. Either faster or slower life could have been very different. The Tesla, is a big computer. It took pictures from all five angles. It had a thumb drive which the police knew about and had the information in real time. Then a day or two later the car sent a computer print out with graphs and information. He was going 40 MPH. and the pictures show her running a very red light.  

 

I had decided, I will finish this rug. I can't tell you how much I felt like a flake. I mean every single time I went to work on this rug. Something life changing happened. But now it is finished and I can move on to a new project. I went through my boxes of patterns and I think I could work for five years and have to never buy another rug. What a hoarder I have turned into with rugs. Finished and not even started.  But of course, never enough wool. 

 

 I guess the moral to the story. Hard things happen but there is always a rainbow. Life is full of surprises and twists and turns, but in the end, what can I learn from this and how can I use it to make me better through it. Its been a few interesting months but I do see that there are lots of sweet blessings in the midst of each and every thing. Its really made me slow down and take stock of what is important and what is not. 

Have a lovely 2026. As a friend of mind said, Wow, Kim you have already had a miracle in 2026. That is what I am going to choose to see. A year of miracles. 

 

~Kim~