I love, love, love Barb Carroll's rugs and books!
I've hooked two, both horses.
This one (above) was an insert pattern in her Secrets of Primitive Hooked Rugs.
It's table top sized and hooked in 6 & 8.
This is another pattern bought directly from her former website
(now owned by A Nimble Thimble in Tx).
I hooked this in 2005-ish.
It was on my hubby's office floor forever and the cleaning lady took
great care of it.
Spot the "purple poison" here and there?
I was always too late to get her for a camp teacher but I've met her and stayed at her former B&B in Ligonier, PA.
I go back to this book again and again.
I was so sad when Emma Lou Lais passed.
She and Carroll co-wrote several classics.
Lais' rugs are timeless too.
There are some awesome living legends in the rug hooking world.
Do you have a fav?
I was so sad when Emma Lou Lais passed.
She and Carroll co-wrote several classics.
Lais' rugs are timeless too.
There are some awesome living legends in the rug hooking world.
Do you have a fav?
And sharing my first-to-open paper white greeted me today!
The scent is intoxicating...
In fact, too intoxicating for my hubby so I will move it
by my hooking chair soon.
We had an ice event last night so promises of Spring
are most welcome in my corner of Canada!
Going to have a cuppa English Breakfast and change bedding.
Happy Thursday.
7 comments:
I hooked that first BC rug many years ago. I love all your star rugs, too. You are quite prolific.
Thanks for the pic of Lucy. I never tire of seeing furbabies. She sure is a cutie ❤️
Thanks for sharing those hooked rugs. I've also hooked many Barb Carroll rugs and never cared for purple until Barb's lesson on 'purple being a neutral'. So purple went into all rugs hooked with Barb and will be in the rug I'm presently hooking.
We are having horrid weather. I have hooked a couple of Emma Lou's rugs but her patterns were hard to come by. I do use their dye book when ever I did the dye pot out.
Cathy
Ice is a problem for us right now. Janice
Love barb carroll mats, too,,,
Have that book,, so keep getting that horse pattern out to do,,,, naybe this year!
We have had 2 days in!,,,, due to ice,,, now storm and blowing snow here,,, with ice ubderneath! So dangerous,,,
Think uts another day inside,,,
Thanks for jnspiration,,,
Hope yr weather improves, too,,,
Us too,Janice! I never knew about ice dams on roofs until we came here. Luckily we’ve never had wet basement issues. Schools out for second day. Stay safe
Stay safe Elaine. It’s horrible!
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