Garden Poppies Runner 18" x 70"
Lately I’ve been more active and it feels good to do something nice for my body. I’ve never been the physical type, other than required gym class; I didn’t participate in sports at school and spent a lot of time closed off in my bedroom in daydream land. I’ve always been more of the thinking type than the doing, but as I get older I know I need to shake it up a bit and start moving, get in a little resistance training before my frame turns to chalk and my muscles abdicate the bone.
Let’s face it, rug hooking and blogging will never make it as an Olympic sport, they’re as much a coach potato pastime as you can get. Too much sitting doesn’t do much for the butt. Mine has drifted so far south if I break a little wind it comes out with a drawl...
I like being active although it takes a bit to get me going and there has to be the right motivation, but when all the ducks line up, I pull the rip cord and off I go. Catalyst II, our sailboat, has been great for me and couldn’t have a more perfect name. Before, I was languishing in lard land and she’s been the catalyst for me to get moving. I’ve lost eight pounds rowing out to swab her deck and polish her stainless and now that I’ve been in the grove to move, I no longer sit and wile away precious time on my backside. My evenings are spent stripping teak in the garage and I’m really inspired with the results.
I like any pastime that comes with instant gratification. That’s what first attracted me to rug hooking. For me, cross stitch and needle point yielded more angst than reward. Not that I’m saying they’re bad, it just seemed to take forever and if I missed counted I had to tear back to the good and start over.
I’m a little on the attention deficit side. No, I’ve not been diagnosed by a professional, but like many I’m impatient so I qualify on some level. I could never wait out the length of time needed to finish anything if the time to do it exceeded the amount of enthusiasm for the job. Most of my starts are rolled up in a trunk or closet to not see the light of day until my executor cleans out my possessions and sticks all the stuff in the bin or on the auction block.
When I was introduced to rug hooking, it went so quickly it was love at first loop and blossomed into a very gratifying, long term relationship. I’ve written before how toiling on my first rug I saw the sun come up three mornings in a row, totally mesmerized at the momentum of it all, losing all sense of time as I hooked feverishly throughout each night. Little did I know how far down the road I would travel with this craft and still there are miles ahead to go. The shop was 15 years strong in August and we are now proudly heading into the 16th year. Wow! Time sure flies when you’re living your passion! Stay tuned for more exciting things to come! The old cliché, ”We aren’t getting older, we’re getting better”, should be our company slogan!
So I'd like September to be a design month and hope to complete a bunch of new patterns for your hooking pleasure. Introduce a bit of new blood and what better start than with red poppies! This rug is a modification of a previous design made longer per the request of a customer. We had Poppy Garden designed for, and hooked by, the lovely Armenia Corkum and a client asked if we could extend it to 70” long. Easy conversions are welcome; this one kept the same width and only extended along the length. It was easy to fill in more poppies that I harvested from another design called Armenia’s Poppies, once again hooked by Ms. Corkum. Armenia sure loves poppies!
I think this new design would make a fantastic table runner. I can see it laid out along the table length in bold reds and various greens. Of course poppies come in many colours and would be equally lovely in pinks or oranges and although there isn’t a blue poppy developed yet, at least not to my knowledge, a little artistic license could make it so.
Let’s face it, rug hooking and blogging will never make it as an Olympic sport, they’re as much a coach potato pastime as you can get. Too much sitting doesn’t do much for the butt. Mine has drifted so far south if I break a little wind it comes out with a drawl...
I like being active although it takes a bit to get me going and there has to be the right motivation, but when all the ducks line up, I pull the rip cord and off I go. Catalyst II, our sailboat, has been great for me and couldn’t have a more perfect name. Before, I was languishing in lard land and she’s been the catalyst for me to get moving. I’ve lost eight pounds rowing out to swab her deck and polish her stainless and now that I’ve been in the grove to move, I no longer sit and wile away precious time on my backside. My evenings are spent stripping teak in the garage and I’m really inspired with the results.
I like any pastime that comes with instant gratification. That’s what first attracted me to rug hooking. For me, cross stitch and needle point yielded more angst than reward. Not that I’m saying they’re bad, it just seemed to take forever and if I missed counted I had to tear back to the good and start over.
I’m a little on the attention deficit side. No, I’ve not been diagnosed by a professional, but like many I’m impatient so I qualify on some level. I could never wait out the length of time needed to finish anything if the time to do it exceeded the amount of enthusiasm for the job. Most of my starts are rolled up in a trunk or closet to not see the light of day until my executor cleans out my possessions and sticks all the stuff in the bin or on the auction block.
When I was introduced to rug hooking, it went so quickly it was love at first loop and blossomed into a very gratifying, long term relationship. I’ve written before how toiling on my first rug I saw the sun come up three mornings in a row, totally mesmerized at the momentum of it all, losing all sense of time as I hooked feverishly throughout each night. Little did I know how far down the road I would travel with this craft and still there are miles ahead to go. The shop was 15 years strong in August and we are now proudly heading into the 16th year. Wow! Time sure flies when you’re living your passion! Stay tuned for more exciting things to come! The old cliché, ”We aren’t getting older, we’re getting better”, should be our company slogan!
So I'd like September to be a design month and hope to complete a bunch of new patterns for your hooking pleasure. Introduce a bit of new blood and what better start than with red poppies! This rug is a modification of a previous design made longer per the request of a customer. We had Poppy Garden designed for, and hooked by, the lovely Armenia Corkum and a client asked if we could extend it to 70” long. Easy conversions are welcome; this one kept the same width and only extended along the length. It was easy to fill in more poppies that I harvested from another design called Armenia’s Poppies, once again hooked by Ms. Corkum. Armenia sure loves poppies!
I think this new design would make a fantastic table runner. I can see it laid out along the table length in bold reds and various greens. Of course poppies come in many colours and would be equally lovely in pinks or oranges and although there isn’t a blue poppy developed yet, at least not to my knowledge, a little artistic license could make it so.
Armenia's Poppies 28" x 38 1/2"
Garden Poppies 18" x 35"
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