LIGONIER VISIT ~ ~ ~

You must meet Posie ~ the Woolley Fox mascot, so to speak!  This is Barb's wonderful Maine Coon Cat, who was just a kitten last year at this time!  Everybody in our group LOVED this cat ~ she lays on the color planning table, the work table the hookers share ~ actually, Miss Posie lays anywhere she wants to!!!!!!

Julie is hard at work and Heidi is explaining something very important!!  We had a great time and got started on some really great rugs! We also got to meet Robin, Barb's daughter ~ what a ball of fire that girl is!!  She can cook, draw patterns, organize, ride herd on her doggies ~ if you look up multi-task in the dictionary, I think her picture might be there!!! 

Peggy and Cyndy hook away while Barb explains something really important to us!  We had lots of great food ~ wallowed in the wool ~ and generally, helped the local economy by shopping in the little shops in town!

Peggy got started on Jonah and the Whale ~ the border consists of lots of theses beautiful paisley designs that would confuse the daylights out of me!  Peggy spent some of the  time 'bon-ding' with the cats and dogs that reside at the Woolley Fox ~ I wouldn't have been surprised to see one of them in her car when we left!!

 This pattern might be called Hunter Weathervane ~ something close to that!  Heidi is hooking it mostly in paisleys from her personal collection ~ which is a nice one, by the way!  This rug is going to be so beautiful ~ it is already!

Burnt Hills, a Warren Kimble pattern, is being hooked by Cyndy ~ perfect  soft colors that    personify Cyndy to a T !!                   

   

Julie can hook up a storm ~ I'd love to tell you that she hooked this all this week but that wouldn't be quite true.  But she hooked a lot of it in the last three days ~ she puts her head down and hooks while the rest of us are talking, ambling about the room, petting the pets, etc.!  This rug is HUGE!!  The pattern is Magdalena's Farm with Lollipops or something like that ~ the name is as big as the rug!  Can't wait to see it finished!

Magdalena's Rooster Pair is be hooked by moi!!  Lots of sparkly wool  and a crazy hit-and-miss style back-ground that I've never done before!  It's similar to the background I did in Karen Kahle's style but you hook in  a more colorful wool  on the squiggly lines and hook a variety of background wools in between those.  I think I'm going to like it a lot!  I have a place for this rug already ~ if I don't 'chicken' out ~  the place that needs this rug is in an area that gets some traffic ~ so we'll see when when it's all finished if I have the chutzpah to let people walk it!!!!  Do you notice the purple chicken feet?  Love that!  I love it all really!  Barb and I create some great rugs together ~ I value her opinion and I think she values mine!  I'm ready to go down and hook away on this thing ~ wish I could ~ but I can't right now!!  Will keep you posted!  

Easter weekend is upon us ~ Spring has sprung ~ the deer or the little rabbies are eating the hostas ~ I'm going out and sprinkle cayenne pepper on everything green as soon as I'm finished posting.  Yes!  Spring has sprung alright!!

Thanks for stopping by ~ and thanks, too, for all the nice comments on the quilt show pictures!  It's my way of taking you along!  Have a good Easter weekend!
Alice