Do you keep a photo album of all your rugs?

Sadly, I do not. 

I started an album of all my favourite rugs but they were made by other

hookers and I put them on my "want to hook list." 

Coming across some old photos today I found this one:

It's my hooked version of my mother's special Strasburg, Virginia pottery.

Strasburg is where I grew up and it was once such

a pottery producer that it was called Pottown.

Anyway, this is one of the rugs I hooked years ago and completely forgot about.

I like the bittersweet- a superb vine!

And yesterday I was writing about the centre where I volunteer. 

I just found a rug photo from a former attendee. 

"D" would draw a few squiggles on the backing and simply start hooking, adding 

figures and flowers free-form.

She often included birds. 

You can see one in the bottom right and one in the top left corner.

I believe she's a real folk artist.

Once D told me she couldn't find the right shade

of red for a rug.

 She happened to look down and thought the bathrobe she was wearing might do the trick. 

She cut the portion she needed right off the bottom!

I don't know what D is doing now but I hope it's rug hooking.

Who inspires you?