TOTES AND BIG JARS ARE GREAT FOR SORTING STRIPS!

HERE IS A QUICK VALENTINE THAT CAN BE HOOKED DURING THE SUPER BOWL!

IT IS THE LITTLE MAT THAT MOM HOOKED FOR THE COVER OF HER LITTLE BOOK

CALLED ~ THE HEART OF PRIMITIVE...

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

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Maggie Bonanomi
everyone should have on their hooking shelf for inspiration

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designed by Maggie Bonanomi

I have just finished a very big project for The Wool Street Journal that I poured every ounce of energy I had into. I can't wait to see it in the WSJ!! I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed hooking it!
I am now starting a rug that Maggie Bonanomi designed and I have had on my shelf for several years.  I have pulled it out numerous times and put away for a special time when I knew I could enjoy color planning, which is one of my greatest joys in hooking a rug.  I love to pull out wool and make several stacks next to the rug and sit and stare and then begin to move the wool around and pull certain pieces out and then head back to my wool room to find more of just the right shade to add.  It is a process that is so satisfying when you get it right! I have only pulled a few loops and love this rug already.

I will keep adding as time permits me to pull loops and hope you enjoy the journey with me.  

The tree is down at Mom and Dad's house... and  mom's hooking frame is up!!
She has designed a little mat to fill a spot on her wall that has been bugging her. The space
measures about 34" x 8" under her rug ~ Hen Club. So she designed a little fence...
What a fun quick project Mom! A sample of her hooking this "complimentary" rug will be in
the April issue of The Wool Street Journal. For now.... just a peek.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

                                MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Prayers For Newtown!

We need turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship. Christ is the only comforter!

Mom found this little journal while straightening a table in her studio this morning.
She always buys herself a new journal for her Christmas stocking . . . and she was
putting all her journals in order. This can turn into a long time of looking back ~ after
all that is what a journal is for! She found this page . . . a color plan from her very
first rug camp ~ Star of Texas ~ the rug was a design for her grand daughter Kirstin.
It is called "I'll do it myself! . . . and so she did" ~ based on the story of The Little 
Red Hen. You can see a small sketch at the bottom of the second page.

The free pattern in the January issue is My Scratchy Wool Cap ~

                                      ENJOY!