As you know, I've been preoccupied with moving my mother to a new assisted living facility. The move is officially completed today! I'm exhausted and I tried to take a nap, but I couldn't relax enough to drop off into sleep. So I tried a little eBay and Etsy retail therapy. This woke me up enough to feel like blogging so here's a little chat with you.
First, thank you for all your well wishes and comments of late, in support of my caregiver role. I appreciate the support.
I missed the Magdalena Tuesday group today due to the move and I've been betwixt and between on a little Mag style rug in the animal cut-out style. I'm not wild about this rug, so progress is slow. Here's a little peek at progress so far.
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| Magdalena style animal reverie in progress. Design is evolving as I hook. |
I couldn't quite bring myself to do the lollipop bouquet again, yet, but I do want to hook it again some day. All the little circles in the bouquet drive me crazy and are tedious, so I made the lollipop into a rainbow in this design. It's my favorite part of the design. It's fun for something different, huh? As I said, I'm not wild about this pattern and at the rate I'm going I don't know if it will get finished because:
I have a couple new Magdalena style designs I want to do instead!!!
I have been overly devoted to dogs for a long time but I do love cats equally even though I don't own a cat right now. So over the weekend I decided it's time to give cats a fair shake at Magdalena hooking.
Here's my progress on what I call "Magdalena Meow Mix" and I like both designs very much. I can't wait to start one! The colors in these photos are for sprucing up the pictures from pure black and white and are not intended as a suggested color plan for these patterns.
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| Cats with the famous Magdalena leaf. |
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| Cats with the famous Magdalena lollipop bouquet. |
I would love to have some company hooking these designs. Are any of you interested in joining me? We could do a rug challenge if you are willing. If you would like to consider this opportunity, please email me at
grinningsheep@gmail.com and chat with me about it. I'm still turning it over in my mind as to how to take on a rug challenge, but if you like the patterns please let me know. It might need to be deferred until after I return from Cambria (mid-June) but we could hook together to make up these fun cats!
