Pictures of hooking at the library Monday evening.

Dulcy working on her cottage rug she started in Jane Green's workshop in Maine.

A close up of the cottage. Aren't the rocks amazing? Dulcy is hooking this in a number four cut, which is TINY for our group!!!

Marsha is working on this large ship rug.

Contemplating how to hook the "waves" at the front of the ship.

Janette and her cute pumpkin couple. I think this is Maria Barton's pattern!?!

Renee' still plugging along on her window rug. I showed the rug, but not her face a few posts back. Very cool rug!

Next, the two Peepers!

Rita is working on another darling cottage rug.

Lovin' the colors of this one. The house wool is spot dyed and looks kind of like pink brick.

This is Vicki and her patriotic rug.

I've got a few projects going. No pictures though. I do have this picture of the wool I picked out for the 3D pumpkin I'm working on. It's a pattern by Befruitful Kreations. JoEllen has lots of neat patterns on her website.

Hope the rest of the week is divine for you!

Peace,

Sheri

Alice and I are published!!!

It’s not yesterday’s news, but it is recent! Jane Halliwell Green’s new book, “Pictorial Hooked Rugs” was released in the fall and I just now got my copy! And here are our works!

Mine is titled “Sunflower” and it is the place in my mind I would love to live in Italy! Never been there, but hope to go someday.

The sunflower in the lower right hand corner is stuffed with fiberfill and beaded with little brown and gold beads.

And here is Alice’s rug, titled “England Memory Rug”. You can visit her blog folkartprimitives.blogspot.com.

Also of interest today I was reading Jane’s blog and she has a link showing her new video on pixelating! Jane Halliwell Green teaches how to pixelatehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Bf2c-vCoU

Very Interesting! And a great idea for hooking all of the spring flowers that are just around the corner. (Yes, I know I’m pushing it. We have snow on the ground too!)

I’ve been hooking on a tote bag by Karen Kahle. I’ve got one side finished already! Really fast hooking.

And FYI, I had chemo #4 Monday and everything is going Great! Still feel good~knock on wood! Two more to go! Yeah!!!

Going to do some more hooking this afternoon.

Hope everyone has a pleasant evening.

Peace,

Sheri

The light bulb went off!

It's cold outside and I'm cooped up in the house doing my usual soul searching. Oprah has started a new series called Best Life. It involves following your spiritual path. First you have to find out what your particular "spiritual" thing is. She suggests giving yourself one minute every morning when you first awake. Do nothing but breathe. One minute!! Then in February give yourself two minutes, etc. until December you have twelve minutes a day devoted to no one except yourself. What a simple concept. That twelve minutes has become your place you are achieving your spiritual path.

I think I kind of do this anyway. I have told you I sit against the heating pad every morning. Usually for at least an hour before I can get moving. I do alot of thinking during that time. I don't usually even have the tv on, just drinking my coffee and thinking, maybe sketching or playing ball with Jimmie Dean.

Well Monday morning it came to me. I am a rug hooker. I am NOT necessarily a Primitive rug hooker though. The kind of primitive with some stars or a simple motive. In my mind I want to "paint" with the wool. I guess you would call it pictorial. Like Jane Halliwell Green's book. This is what my mind is telling me I'm supposed to be doing. Images like this.

I don't know if I can, if anyone else will like it, or what my expectations even are. But I'm going to give it a shot. I want to be able to hook what I see. I have noticed Sooo much since I began painting and hooking that I look at things differently than I used to. I really see the veins in a leaf or the cracks and crevices on a rock. How can I capture that with my hooking? I'm going to find out!! I will still be hooking with a wide cut (my rugs may have to be five feet long) but all I have is time right now. Trying to beat this fibromyalgia. I don't even hook but maybe a couple of hours a day, but sooner or later I'll have something done to show you!

Speaking of hooking time. Have you seen the youtube video of Deanne Fitzpatrick? Man, that woman hooks like five square inches in a minute!! She never changes the direction of her frame. She just hooks back and forth, up and down. Remarkable! I can go a little ways "sideways" but I usually turn my frame to go with the way I'm hooking. I'm going to practice that too. I'll have to get faster if I'm going to create pictorials!

Jimmie Dean had his first puppy kindergarten class Monday night. There were two other owners there with their pups. One a Burmese, the other a pug looking puppy. Then the owners had a yellow lab service dog and a little dachshund. It was mostly socializing. Poor Jimmy Dean got caught under the huge Burmese and just shook. I finally went over and picked him up and let him out in the middle of the floor. I was waiting for the owner to get her pup to move, but she thought it was very amusing. Poor JD. The lady also started teaching sit and come when they're called. Of course JD will drop his butt to the floor immediately at home when I say sit. Last night he looked at me, like I was an alien!! And when she had us call our dogs. I had EVERY dog at my feet, but Jimmie was sitting in the middle of the floor just looking around. It was so embarrassing. Not really, actually it was hilarious!! Look at his poor little body language trying to get away from the huge puppy. Aaawwwww...

Stay warm,

Peace,

Sheri