After several cancelations due to weather, we were finally able to hold a hook-in. It wasn't a large group, but we were lively! Maybe it was the delicious Zucchini Cake that Nancy made! It disappeared faster than a rabbit down a hole and really it was sort of same thing....just the rabbit was the cake! Recipe to follow.
Some of the diehards were out despite more bad weather on its way. We have a rule that if school is cancelled due to a storm, so is the hook-in. We don't want our friends driving in risky conditions just to hook! But once the morning was over, the sun was out, the streets were dry with above zero temperatures. The nastiness waited until we were all home safe and warm and then it hit us again like we've been bad or something! Enough already!
I like hearing the icy rain hit the windows and the moan of the howling wind. As long as I'm tucked safely inside, I just like a backdrop of winter sounds. Our house has been doing the shimmy shake lately with all these storms. The other evening a gust blew our very large steel BBQ off the deck and landed on a granite rock wall. Luckily no dents. It lay there like a ship blown aground on a reef. The thing is massively heavy and I struggled to make it upright. Getting it on the deck is another story. There has to be a man or two involved in that undertaking. I risked a hernia just getting it up on its wheels!
So last evening we had some finished show and tell and some new beginnings. First up we have Kilroy....I mean Sue Cunningham, who just finished hooking and whipping my new design "Just Laid". Wowsa! I absolutely love this! My vision brought to fruition...we're a team she and I!
Do you remember hearing the old joke...Do you smoke after sex?" and the woman replies "I don't know, I've never looked!" Well that's what inspired this piece with the play on words. If the cigarette offends anyone, the design stands without it. Imagine this beauty in your country kitchen!
To view the pattern click the link: http://www.encompassingdesigns.com/new-designs.html
Some of the diehards were out despite more bad weather on its way. We have a rule that if school is cancelled due to a storm, so is the hook-in. We don't want our friends driving in risky conditions just to hook! But once the morning was over, the sun was out, the streets were dry with above zero temperatures. The nastiness waited until we were all home safe and warm and then it hit us again like we've been bad or something! Enough already!
I like hearing the icy rain hit the windows and the moan of the howling wind. As long as I'm tucked safely inside, I just like a backdrop of winter sounds. Our house has been doing the shimmy shake lately with all these storms. The other evening a gust blew our very large steel BBQ off the deck and landed on a granite rock wall. Luckily no dents. It lay there like a ship blown aground on a reef. The thing is massively heavy and I struggled to make it upright. Getting it on the deck is another story. There has to be a man or two involved in that undertaking. I risked a hernia just getting it up on its wheels!
So last evening we had some finished show and tell and some new beginnings. First up we have Kilroy....I mean Sue Cunningham, who just finished hooking and whipping my new design "Just Laid". Wowsa! I absolutely love this! My vision brought to fruition...we're a team she and I!
Do you remember hearing the old joke...Do you smoke after sex?" and the woman replies "I don't know, I've never looked!" Well that's what inspired this piece with the play on words. If the cigarette offends anyone, the design stands without it. Imagine this beauty in your country kitchen!
To view the pattern click the link: http://www.encompassingdesigns.com/new-designs.html
Up next we have Pam Haughn, (left) with a rug she made for her son and Linda Ruth Beck, (right) with her scrap piece, made from all the leftovers of a larger version of this design.
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Lorraine has designed another grand-baby rug. For every grandchild she hooks a keepsake. Some talk about being born with a silver spoon in the mouth, I think coming into this world to receive your very own rug, designed and lovingly hooked by Grammy is pretty darn special.
Beth Burgoyne, a newcomer to the group has finished her first project. This is one of my designs called Bzzzzz... It's been hooked with several colour palettes but I must say, this one is very fetching. I love pink and she wanted it bright so it's pulling double duty in the wow department! way to go! Beth is sewing in cording and will whip it next.
 Pam is starting her next project. Brick work with floral offsets. She took advantage of our plaid sale to get all of the brick colours. It's be fun to watch the progression! |  Someone made Pam a little felted Gnome. |
 Linda Ruth with her finished pup. |  Auntie Audrey just returned from a cruise and visit to Florida. Back at hooking and Nova Scotia weather! |
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