April Snow Showers

Welcome April!!

I'm glad you're here.

We had 5 inches of snow last night so I think you're a little confused

but we'll get there.

This is a rug I hooked way back in 2004.

I got inspiration for the design from an antique pie safe.

From my home town of Strasburg, Virginia.

The doors were tin punched  in a similar way. 

Now this little beauty looks deceptively simple:

Yes, it's a flannel nightgown but here's the thing.

I'm caregiver of a centenarian.

Now she cannot use scissors anymore, nor can she feel to pin things.

And I cannot use a sewing machine.

But between the two of us we made a thing of beauty

which her daughter received most happily.

I'm still hooking away at the Pat Cross pattern:

I keep running out of khakis and darks 

so I've made numerous trips upstairs

 to the wool room to root around for more.

Tonight I have a rug hook meet-up so there will be hours to hook.

At the end of the month the local guild

hosts a big hook-in. 

It's a real highlight of Spring:

vendors, prizes, hookers, yummy food to share...

The blues are slowwwllly ebbing away.

I'm so grateful.

Six months of Winter surely doesn't help.

May you find beauty in the day!