MORE ROOSTER PAIR ~ ~ ~

Blogfriend, Saundra wanted to see the rug all stretched out ~ here it is, girlie!!  In the last three evenings, I've hooked the area from the red squiggle to the area over the right rooster's tail.  Not a lot each time but it takes me a long time to do a hit and miss style!

Here it is, up close and personal!  I hook the colored strips out of my leftover strip basket, a little mindful of the color but not a lot.  Some are skinny and some are 8's and 9's, just using what I have.  Then fill in with the neutral background wool .

These four wools are pretty  much in all the same values ~ I love that word ~ it makes me sound like I know what I'm talking about!  But ~ you do get a nice all over effect and it works well with the shots of color coming from the squigggles!  When I took classes from Karen Kahle the last couple of years, she really did help get that to sink into my brain!!  By the way, Karen has a great new blog ~ check it out!!

This morning the mail lady drove right in the drive, so I knew she had something important other than envelopes!!  Just look ~ a present for moi!!! Such a cute little stitched wabbit in a pot with a cute little hang tag and he brought his own grass!!  I have been wrestling with this cold all week ~ feeling very poorly ~ and sweet friend, Charisse (one of my hooking pals) sent this to me to make me all better!!  I love it and even more, I love that Charisse cared enough to do that for me!!  Look ~ I'm better already!!!  Thank you so much, Charisse ~ she's like an angel ~ so happy to have her and her other pals as my friends!!

Sonny has worked at Kelley's Island all week ~ I was gonna have some fun ~ meet this one and that one for lunch and wine in the evening, etc.  Instead, I had cocktails of benadryl, Motrin, vicks on my chest, and stayed wrapped up in my blankie ~ what a bummer!!  Still not top notch but I have to meet Sonny at the ferry this evening and then we're seeing a customer tomorrow.  Thank goodness, I have Tad's sitter coming to stay with him ~ the last thing he needs is to be trapped in a car with this coughing, sneezing mother!!! 

I hope you've been able to stay germ free and are anxiously awaiting Spring!  Remember to Spring forward tomorrow night ~ won't that be fun!!  I've kind of lost the spring in my step right now so maybe that will help!!! 

Alice