Let's Get it Done Already!

I have a dirty little secret...


... I have a stack of unfinished projects.


Now you know.


I love the hooking, but for some reason I'm off to the next project leaving my beautiful rugs rolled up and stacked in the dark waiting for me to have the motivation to finally bind the edges.  What is funny, once I get started with the binding it isn't near as much of a chore as I had imagined. 

My Art Deco Peacock sat for about a year and a half (right along with my November rug that was finished a couple of years earlier).  It was so wonderful getting them up on the wall I couldn't imagine what took me so long to get them done.










I now have a small stack of other projects that are waiting for their moment of glory.  Time to get it done!   The first one I am taking on is a cat's paw that I just adore.  It has been so long since I serged the edges I can't remember who the designer was.
 

I decided to finish the edges with rows of hit and miss and now I'm binding it in a continuation of that pattern.  I like how it is coming out.

About 1 1/4 inch rolled toward front with no cord (fold half in and baste first)

I'm In Print!

It is official, the magazine is published and I finally have a copy in my hands. My Art Deco Peacock rug is featured in this year's Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs, 20th Anniversary Edition published by Rug Hooking Magazine. I am humbled and honored to have my rug featured among the other beautiful and unique works of art in this publication.

Thanks to my son-in-law, Jason Parmentier, who took the photographs. They did my rug justice and I feel the quality of the photograph is such an important part of getting your rug considered. It is a rather large rug and he did an excellent job of squaring it up and presenting it true to life.


I am also grateful to my good friend and rug-hooker Lena Krinard. I have followed in her footsteps, and have learned so much from her. She and I both looked at the same book of linoleum rug ideas at different times. She saw a potential hooked rug and I saw a beautiful linoleum rug. She was gracious enough to allow me to work on the same pattern as she was--yet again. You have such good taste Lena! Of my five "completed" rugs, four of them are rugs I have in common with Lena. I do have to say, however, two of them I started first!

Congratulations! from Celebrations!

I'm pretty excited.  I got notification that my Art Deco Peacock rug was accepted for Celebrations XX to be published in August.


More about this rug later.



A close-up of center of rug: