{ saturday musings }

 

Hello!

we had a nice day in the shop today...
friends Cindy & Joan came out to hook with me,

and we were visited by

Pat & Karen as well ~

always nice to see folks out & about enjoying the weekends :)

 

I worked a little on that antique adaptation that I shared with you a few weeks back ~

here is my progress so far:

(not much, I know, but it is an 'in between' project for me at the moment)

 

 

 

 

I hooked the central tree, and hooked some of the leaves and flowers...

but I wanted to incorporate some hand dyed wool pennies that I marbelized

using Karen's (primitivespirit) technique...

 

 

 

 

I'm really liking how they look stitched primitively onto the rug

with the higher loops pulled around them...what do you think of the contrast?

 

 

 

 

 

 

here's a close up of the appliqued penny ~

(love how the colors blended and married in the 'stew' pot)

 



 

and here's the other penny...
this one I will hook higher loops around for dimensional petals in contrasting colors...

red? purple? hmmm....

both?

 



 

 

...and here is a finished runner that Cindy (mountainhollow)

punched today using wool yarns

and her Oxford punch ~

Baa Baa Blacksheep....

 

 

 

 

close up of the yarn loops ~

 

 

 

I belong to an online group called
Rug Hooking Daily

and today's discussion was about on-line tutorials...

here is a link for a fantastic finishing (or starting?) technique:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR-ebWIJd_Y

 

AND...

while Joan, Peter & I were preparing to close the shop for the day,
Peter looked out one of our windows and said loudly:
"There's a cat fighting with a snake outside!"

Joan & I ran to the window and there was a tiny, skeletal kitten...
batting at a blacksnake that was a good 3 feet long!!!!

so I (of course) ran outside and by the time I got close to them, the kitten had KILLED that blacksnake, and was mewing at me!!!!!

I scooped her up and brought her inside the shop...
she was SOOOOO friendly and affectionate ~ I scoured her for fleas & ticks and to my amazement had only a couple...her little bones were sticking out through her fur and she was as light as a feather...surely malnourished.

 

So, I (of course x 2) ran to the house for some kitty food and fresh water

and brought it back to the shop for her....
she gobbled it up and lapped up some water and purred

and made muffins with her little velvet mittens ~

 

I have named her 'Minew' (actually I named her Minuette becasue she is so small) but Minew is the sound she makes and the name just seems to fit her.

 

and here she is ~



 

i am smitten with this kitten from the woods...

a tiny gift that lifted my heart today

and made me cry ~

 ( sorry for making you cry too, friend Joan)

but I love animals so deeply and I can't help but remember my Suzy
whom I lost in February,
and I believe this little one was just out there waiting to find me...

Peter has already fallen for her, and has built her a warm,

safe & dry kitty house on the farmhouse front porch ~

safe inside the confines of the picket fence.

 

we'll keep you posted as to her progress >^..^<

 

Lori from

Notforgotten Farm