Hooks, scissors & bees.....

Good Morning Friends & Folk ~
and Happy Sunday to you!

Here is my small collection of rug hooks and scissors...
i realized that the scissors that I'm drawn to have this dark, almost gunmetal patina to them...
they are all antique, with my oldest pair dating to the late 1800's (the stork scissors, upper left)

The heavy-looking scissors at the very bottom are button scissors,
were used to snip valuable buttons from cothing when it was spent...

the hooks are so much fun to collect...my favorite one is the one I mentioned yesterday,
(upper left) but the one I am hooking with right now is the one located at ther 7:00 position ~
it has a sharp hook, and a maple handle...
I usually use my Hartman hook, but my friend Joan is borrowing it to see if she wants to invest in one at the rug show next Saturday...

I have not spent over $20 on any pair of scissor or hook.
that's the fun part of collecting! ~ trying to find them for a good price :)

The hook at the 2:00 position is one Peter made for me from a deer antler that Lazy found on a walk in the woods...it is beautiful and feels good in the hand.

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and here is what I decided to hook...
a honey bee...

I was thinking about spring, and how much I enjoy the gardens ~
I was also looking for inspriation on Pinterest
(who doesn't??)
and looked into one of my boards...
...found thee perfect honeybee photo and drew up my interpretation of it.

I used standing wool circles for the bee's eyes, and love how they look!
the bacground will be that wonderful blue wool I showed you yesterday...

Joan wanted to watch me hook yesterday, saying she didn't like the way she hooked her loops...
so I set her up at the table with a little log cabin square design to watch HER hook...
(see what I did there?) hahaha...folks tend to think there is a right or wrong way to hook...
I disagree. totally.
I feel that we all hook differently to begin with...we percieve color differently, hold our hooks differently, draw differently, space rows differently and so on...

see how I hook?

my loops are not even.
my rows are not tidy.
my strips are handcut so that they are different sizes altogether.
I have been hooking for 20 years and I love the way I hook.

I don't try to hook like anyone else, because i can't.
I'm just simply me and you are just simply & wonderfully you.

so embrace the hook, fondle the wool and love what you do.
if it brings you joy, that's what matters!!!

(p.s.) this honeybee will be a chairpad, and I'll finish it up today to share with you)

blessings from the farm,
Lori