I thought I would do something fun for the month of April. The creative juices are flowing and I am working on twenty new patterns to add to our line of designs. I will be launching them all this month. Five patterns a week from Monday to Friday, starting today and winding down on Friday 28th. Some are smaller, some larger and all else in between. There are a few new Christmas designs, a bit of whimsy, a geometric, an interesting contemporary choice, etc. Let’s see what I can pull out of my hat.
Design #6 is called WORK BEFORE PLAY
Although this pattern says DAD for the coming Father’s Day in June, we can leave it off the pattern for any person’s name that works hard and plays even harder. I know man isn’t a dad and lots of women work with tools and love sports so I’ll leave it up to you to fill in the blank. I added “Dad” to show how neat it would be to honour them because sometimes guys are forgotten when it comes to rug hooking patterns. Most patterns are more geared for women. The Design #5 “You Grow Girl” is a prime example so I wanted to celebrate dad’s, brothers, uncles, grandfathers and the like.
The name WORK BEFORE PLAY came about as a memory of my mother-in-law who liked to preach “work before play” although the play part never really got endorsed. She was what you would call the fun police in that she constantly said the main goal in life is to work hard and pay taxes. Play didn’t really come into play. Which is, of course, rich considering she never had to work after she married and travelled the world with their children because her husband was a 747 pilot for Air Canada. She had a grand happy life, never wanting for a thing and being blessed with it all. The only time she condoned us travelling was when we had tickets to fly to BC to visit them. Even though we are adults we had to sneak out of the house to go for coffee, because that was a frivolous waste of time and money and we didn’t want to have to hear, “Are you flush with cash?” Ah well, she was of a generation that came out of the depression and I guess she lived in fear that it would return so a savings account was more important than seeing tropical beaches and traversing the globe.
WORK BEFORE PLAY 18” x 18”
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Design #6 is called WORK BEFORE PLAY
Although this pattern says DAD for the coming Father’s Day in June, we can leave it off the pattern for any person’s name that works hard and plays even harder. I know man isn’t a dad and lots of women work with tools and love sports so I’ll leave it up to you to fill in the blank. I added “Dad” to show how neat it would be to honour them because sometimes guys are forgotten when it comes to rug hooking patterns. Most patterns are more geared for women. The Design #5 “You Grow Girl” is a prime example so I wanted to celebrate dad’s, brothers, uncles, grandfathers and the like.
The name WORK BEFORE PLAY came about as a memory of my mother-in-law who liked to preach “work before play” although the play part never really got endorsed. She was what you would call the fun police in that she constantly said the main goal in life is to work hard and pay taxes. Play didn’t really come into play. Which is, of course, rich considering she never had to work after she married and travelled the world with their children because her husband was a 747 pilot for Air Canada. She had a grand happy life, never wanting for a thing and being blessed with it all. The only time she condoned us travelling was when we had tickets to fly to BC to visit them. Even though we are adults we had to sneak out of the house to go for coffee, because that was a frivolous waste of time and money and we didn’t want to have to hear, “Are you flush with cash?” Ah well, she was of a generation that came out of the depression and I guess she lived in fear that it would return so a savings account was more important than seeing tropical beaches and traversing the globe.
WORK BEFORE PLAY 18” x 18”
Check out our New Designs Page
https://www.encompassingdesigns.com/new-designs.html
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