SAUDER CLASS ~ ~ ~

This is my friend, Donna, and her cute donkey rug from Lori Brechlin of Notforgotten Farm ~ you can take this as a political statement ~ or not!! We had a great week at our table and Donna and her friends, took me under their wing ~ I joined them for dinners and lunches ~ since I was there alone, it was great to have friends to hang with!! Thank you, Donna!!!!! And to my friend, Jackie ~ who also took me to dinner!! I need a keeper sometimes and these girls know it!

Another friend, Carol and her beautiful rug designed by Lucille Festa ~ our illustrious teacher for the week!! Carol is lots of fun ~ we'd be dangerous if we lived close to each other!

This was our fourth table mate, Dana from Alabama (I hope I have that right after all this time!) and her rug is going to be beautiful!

This was Dana's spot at the table ~ and more under the table!! We had to laugh because if anyone said "I wish I had a "whatever", Dana pulled it out of her baskets!! I mean seriously! Carol wished for a little portable fan ~ voila! Dana reached down and there it was! Donna wished for a tootsie roll ~ Dana says "got it"! Carol needed a phillips screwdriver to put the batteries in her own personal fan that Dana's husband picked up at Walmart for Carol ~ yep! Dana had that phillips right in her little kit bag!!!! And on it went! We marveled at her preparedness ~ she's a good gal to have at your table for sure!!!!!!

This lovely lady was working on the great sheep and sunflower rug ~ it is sizable and she got lots done that week!

This gal got lots done on her cute rug ~ she worked hard and hooked some of my favorite sparkly wool into the stars ~ it's a darling rug!!

Her friend was hooking this beautiful tree that was her own design ~ I hope I get to see a picture of it when it's done ~ very artistic looking!

Sally, who is friends of the two previous girls, was hooking her rug in beautiful colors chosen to match a piece of furniture in her home! She was hooking in an 8 cut ~ small for me but larger than usual for her! This rug is going to be beautiful and matches her fabric sample to a T !!!!

Another beautiful rug start ~ this lady got lots done ~ it's going to be a great rug!

I loved this horse rug that is also one of Lucille's designs. She brought hers to show us ~ and this one will also have that nice aged look to it!!

This whale rug will really be pretty ~ love her blues and she is hooking it in a fairly small cut ~ but she made lots of progress!!

This was the first time I have been in a class with Cindi Gay ~ she hooked both these stair risers in the time we were there ~ the mounted one is her pattern ~ the one she is holding she just started hooking on a blank piece of foundation fabric!! And look how beautiful it is!!

Judy Stevens got a nice start on Kris Miller's pattern ~ Hex and Trex (hope that's right) ~ very nice!

This is Judy again ~ standing beside her rug that was on display because ~ it was accepted into the Celebrations magazine this year!!!!!!! Yay Judy!! She is a very even, precise hooker ~ and her work shows it!! Congratulations, Judy!

Another friend, Karen Dietrick, also had this same rug pattern accepted into Celebrations! CORRECTION!!! The other rug was done by Fritz Mitnick ~ a well-known rug hooking teacher from Pennsylvania!! Thank you, Donna, for the information, although it took me a while to add this!! So sorry, Fritz!!



And this is my Minnie the Cat ~ I've finished now but this is what I got done in the four day class! Lucille designed this rug, too and I absolutely love it!!

Another thing I loved was taking Lucille's class! She's very talented and patient and fun! You can find her at American Country Rugs ~ did I get a picture of her? Yes, but it was not flattering and I like her too much to post it!!! Thanks, Lucille ~ it was great fun and I hope our paths cross again!!

I'm sure you can see what a fun week we had ~ the rug show was really great ~ the shopping always is ~ the food is fabulous ~ and it's wonderful hanging out with people who share the same interest! I never really spent much time in women's groups until I started rug hooking ~ and I really enjoy the camaradarie immensely! If you get a chance to go to Sauder rug week next year or in the future, give yourself a treat! You won't regret it!!!

I posted these pictures a couple of weeks ago, but Blogger and I had some issues ~ it was a little challenging but finally, I could put the right words with the right pictures and publish it!! Hope you enjoyed your visit!!

Alice

I GOT THE BLUES ~ ~ ~

Aren't these beautiful fabrics?  Artist, Glennis Dolce, creates bits and pieces of fabric with indigo dyes ~ they are intriguing to me ~ they captivate my attention!  Her friend, Jude Hill of Spirit Cloth, stitches very creative little story quilts with this fabric and sells them on her website.  Jude had a link on her Facebook page a couple of weeks ago to let readers know that Glennis had some 'boro packs' to sell!  Yippee!! I ordered and shortly they arrived!  Don't know what I will make with all these gorgeous blues but you'll see it when I dream it up!

Last summer, at the Sauder Village rug class, there was a very sweet woman who sat next to me ~ Aryl ~ pronounced like Carl (she always said that!)!  This was the rug she began there ~ the pattern is Barn Symbol Galaxy by Bea Brock ~ one I thought I wanted to tackle sometime.  Aryl emailed this to me and it really is just so pretty ~ gorgeous dramatic colors and hooked so well.  I asked all the gals in the class to send pix of their finished rugs and I would post them here on the old blog ~ thank you, Aryl pronounced like Carl ~ I so appreciate being able to show off your beautiful creation!

Yesterday, I got the gray hairs colored ~ it looks ever so much better!  Then, I had a really nice lunch with my great nephew, Louie, who is heading off to Las Vegas this weekend to find his fortune!  He's a young musician who's made a connection way out there ~ I wish him the very best and sent him off with one of my favorite books "The Secret"!  It's about abundance and the Law of Attraction and if nothing else, it will give him something to read on the plane and maybe something to enhance his young life!

The tax prep is finished!! Yay!! I'm heading to the accountant as soon as this post is done ~ something I can finally tick off  'The List' ~ my list is sooo huge ~ you just wouldn't even believe it!  My friend, Melody, is coming this afternoon to pick up a stretcher frame for the sheep rug I hooked for her last year. And tonite our friend, Rita, is taking us out for my birthday!!!  In between, I'll do laundry, work on bills and the weather is finally nice here, so I should go out and clean the leaves off the daffodils that are getting ready to bloom!!  Mama's work is never done!!

I hope your work gets done and that you are able to enjoy SPRING!!!!!!!!  Ta ta for now!

SAUDER CLASS RUGS ~ ~ ~

These are the first photos sent to me from our class at Sauder Village with Jule Marie Smith, this summer. Bev started the first two in class. She really had them almost finished before we left! This is Hannah's Hen ~ they are all three from the Woolley Fox ~ Bev did a wonderful job using neutrals ~ something I find pretty challenging!



"The Weaver's Lion" is an Edyth O'neill design ~ back in 'olden times', the craftsmen of the day used symbols as their signage and on Edyth's blog "My Red Cape", she explains the history behind this little rug design.



Bev didn't do this rug in class, but included it with her email ~ it is Dutch Tulips, designed by Lisa Baughman, who works at the Woolley Fox! All three of Bev's rugs have great color ~ she had several rugs in the Sauder rug show. Thanks for sending them along, Bev ~ tell your girlfriends they, too, can be 'published' whenever they're ready!!!



Yesterday, I put the dye pots on again! This is a nice old red but maybe it does show a little more winey than it is in person ~ but very nice.

This forest green came out with lots of nice mottling ~ it will hook up great with it's own natural shading. I'm going to do a batch this morning ~ better get to it, hm? A shopper from the Malabar show sent some samples of things she would like, so I'm getting together a little potpourri to show her!!

Yesterday, the old guy went fishing on Lake Erie ~ a friend of our boys chartered a headboat out of Vermillion and had some room, so Sonny, Brian and Ted went along! They actually caught fish!!!! Very nice perch ~ we have three suppers worth in the freezer now! Yippee!!

We're off to the lake for our last Fall weekend ~ have to put the patio furniture away and get ready for winter! We do go up all winter ~ there's really just that one little chore to attend to! Then Saturday, we're off to Kelley's Island for Halloween hilarity!! People wear the greatest costumes ~ some very inventive ~ some just plain outrageous ~ we don't wear any ~ costume that is!! I do have my nice witch hat with boa feathers but that's the extent of it!! I'll make a report next week!!!

Hope there's big fun on your weekend schedule ~ if not, make some for yourself!!
Alice