Bear Lodge Wool Applique Quilt

I'm so happy the pattern is finally finished and ready to sell as a complete pattern!

The picture just does not do the quilt justice. It's beautiful in real life!

The pattern is available on my website and Karen of The Wool Basket has both the pattern and the kits for sale on her website. Kits include hand dyed wool and the flannel.

This is an easy quilt to make with a flannel background that looks like hand dyed wool yet has more stability than a wool background would have.

Now that this quilt is finished it's time to start a new Block of the Month wool applique quilt...

I have a new wool quilt designed and almost ready to go. Karen will again offer kits with the pattern each month. The new quilt with have a snowman theme...I know, we are all getting pretty tired of the snow this winter but this new quilt begins March 1st and will go to September so it will be ready to use next winter. It won't be so bad stitching nice cool colors this summer when it's 80 or 90 degrees outside!

Thanks for stopping to take a look!!!!

Floral Runner Finished!!!

My Floral Runner is finished!

I'm very pleased with how it turned out. I decided I would see if I could hook an entire rug using only textured wool off the bolt. No hand dyed and no solids.

I started this rug in the fall sitting out on the screened porch looking at the fall colors and that became my inspiration for the colors in the rug. When I pulled from my stash it all just came together. I just happened to have the colors I need. I tend to buy a lot of the warmer tones rather than the cooler colors of blues and grays.

Now that I've hooked this rug I can't wait to design another floral rug, I already have some of the colors set aside.

I tried to post a larger image here but it's the best this set up will allow.

You should be able to click on it and view a larger version.

If anyone would like to purchase this design it is available on my website hand drawn on either Dorr's monk's cloth or Dorr's linen. The finished size is 12 1/2" x 52". It would look great on an old farm table...I wish I had one!

Fall Runner Block of the Month

Our new Block of the Month rug.

Karen from The Wool Basket has started a new BOM rug, it's a design by Cabin Creek. Karen is color planning and hooking one block (or two) a month for 9 months. It's more or less a mystery BOM. She's using mostly hand dyed wool, if not all hand dyed.
This is only half of the rug...the right side. It measures 18" x 48". Pattern is available on monk's or linen. You can join in at any time and if you want info please visit her website here.

I like the fall colors against the deep blue background. I can't wait to see it finished!

More of my Floral Runner.

Below are the greens used in the leaves around the rust flowers. The left side wool is the vein, the leaves are outlined with the check and then filled with the heather green.

The greens in the leaves around the gold flowers. The top wool is the vein, outline is the brown and filled with the green plaid.

The small round flowers....the check was used as the outside of the flower and the stripe was used for the middle.

To be continued....

Floral Runner's Gold Flowers

Here's another look at the my rug and the wools I'm using.
There are 2 flowers like this in the rug and I'm hooking both identical.

The color of my pictures is giving me a hard time so I'm not sure how true this will be but we'll give it a try anyway....we shall see what happens!

The wools used. The orangy wool is the outline of the flower petals, the yellow/gold was used for the petals, the gold is the outline of the flower center (one row) and the brown is the flower center.

The bud on the left is the same wool as the rust flower.

This is the background although I don't think it photographed well. It is black and a very dark green hounds tooth and makes up into a beautiful background.

I have the rug almost finished and I'll post pictures again...soon!

Floral Runner Rug Hooking Design

Where do the days...weeks...go!!! I was going to post this rug a month ago. I can't believe it's almost the middle of December already.

This is one of my designs...Floral Runner. I've been trying to find time to hook it since I first drew it up. (I won't mention how many years that has been!) I thought I'd snap pictures of it as I progress for those of you who are new to rug hooking.

I decided to see if I could hook a rug using only textures, no hand dyed or solid wool in this rug and I love the colors. Everything is a plaid, check or heather.

I was trying to find a brown vein for the leaf. I started with a medium brown and thought it looked fine but as I hooked more it seemed a little flat. I found a darker brown and hooked another vein. You can see the difference here. the darker vein looks far better...the leaf doesn't look 'flat' as it does with the lighter brown. It may be hard to see...I'm hoping it will show up better if you click on the photo to enlarge the image.

A little further along....Using a flash so the color is a bit brighter.

Here is some of the wool used in the flower. The gold on the left is the outline, the rust is the flower petals. I forgot to include the gold line in the petal. The medium brown is the outline of the flower center and the lime green plaid with the pink is the flower center.

I used a dark green and black houndstooth for the background and the narrow gold line is the same gold as the outline of the flower. I will continue the border with the green and black houndstooth.

(too be continued!)

Aren't the colors pretty! I chose these colors in the fall when the leaves were shades of orange, gold and red. As I was sitting out back in the screened in porch I could look up and see the exact same shades in the trees around me. Now it is all covered in white fluffy stuff!

"Show Me" Rug Show at Parkville Missouri

Rugs pictures from the Show Me rug show in Parkville MO.

Three of these are my designs, not the Santa...I think he's beautiful and I have no idea who's design it is.

Three more of mine, not the patriotic horse but I think it's a pretty fun rug.

An assortment of rugs...

I love this squirrel, again, no designers name. I would like to hook this pattern if I can find it. I like how she finished it with the braided border.

At the top is Karen's bell pull...sideways. It's beautiful! This photo does not do it justice.
Below it is my Snow design and hooked by Helen. She made a few minor changes in the design.

And my favorite for last...Mama Longhorn hooked by Victoria Ingalls. My picture does not do this justice either, you wouldn't believe how 'real' this looks...just amazing!