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I forgot I hooked that rug!

I can’t believe that I forgot I hooked that rug! Yes, it went plumb out of my mind. Let me explain.

that rug, hooked
Unfinished and, therefore, unnamed rug being hooked with t-shirts sometime last fall.

 

Last night I was going through my laptop files looking for a particular rug photo. (I read a blog that encourages people to share their gardens and crafts and such. Of course, they want to see my rugs. 🙂 )  So, I’m combing through the blog file, the guild file, High on Hooking’s inventories, every file containing pics of rugs for whatever reason. And I come across this photo of an unfinished rug.

And I think, where the hell that rug?  How come I haven’t been trying to sell that??? It was a pretty large, circular deal. About 28 inches in diameter.

Like many of you, I am not a woman who keeps things that bother me to myself. I less than casually mention it to Tom who responds with What rug? (Insert my eye roll here.) Once I show him the photo, oh, I remember that one! Thank God. I was starting to think senility might be creeping in. Then he asks about its whereabouts. Duh! Then he asks if I ever finished it. Of course, I finished it! I had to have done it before I started the big, blue floral rug around January 1.

I check the wicker trunk and the cedar chest. Nada. I take a cursory glance around the closet and laundry room, but they both hold my hooking raw materials, not finished rugs, most of which currently abide in my mobile store. It’s definitely not with them.

Again to the cedar chest. I do a better search, actually take things out. Nope. The rug seems to have vanished. I briefly consider that Melinda might’ve taken it. She really liked it when I was working on it. Nah, I would’ve seen it at her house. So, it has to be in mine!

Tom’s lost interest by now. I head back to the closet and the laundry room. Okay, I have not cleaned or sorted my laundry room counter in a very l-o-n-g time. Been too busy. This time I actually pick up some  pile, move things around, and…lo and behold!…there, neatly folded, is that rug. I grab it, unfold it. Oh, the hooking is done – just like I remembered – but the finishing, not so much. Never bandy that word senility around so casually when you live in a glass house. It will come back to bite you in the ass.

that rug, unfinished
I definitely hooked that rug. I most definitely did NOT finish that rug.

Now I have another job to do so that I can get this baby out to the Rail Yards and the other places I’m selling at this season. (That would include, I recently found out, the Sunflower Festival in Mountainair, here in New Mexico on August 26.) Since tonight I’ll finish hooking another rug (see photo below) and have yet to design something new, I guess that I’ll be sewing binding on the “Tree of Life” when I meet with some guild members tomorrow for a mini hook-in. Like you, I’d rather hook.

Last week brought some interesting news. Along with 59 other hookers who feel a need to share the hooking gospel via social media, specifically via a blog, High on Hooking’s blog was named one of the best 60 rug hooking blogs. (It didn’t specify where, so I’ll go with in the entire world.) I admit that when I saw the email that morning, I scoffed to Tom that it was some kind of scam, false news, as it were. But, no, when I got on Facebook later in the day, congratulations were flying. Thank you, Rug Hooking Magazine and Feedspot for a lovely and unexpected boost.

Lastly, Tynan is back with “The Rug on the Frame.” Though he did mention that it felt like a demotion after being allowed to write the blog last week. I told him that if he’s good, he’ll get another chance. And if he stops calling us idiots. This rug is a favorite of his, though he’d make me take out the “WOOF” and put in his name. Then I couldn’t sell it, I explained. Exactly, he said.

hooked rug and dog
Tynan says, that rug should be mine. “Woof” is hooked all in t-shirt. Much cooler than wool this time of year.
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8 comments

  1. Debbie Moyes says:

    Well good for you! I read about the Top Hooking list on someone else’s blog and just pulled it up. I’m always looking for new ones to read. (New ones worth reading!)
    Very funny that you completely forgot that rug… I think it’s funny since you only hook rugs. I forget things I do but I excuse myself because I hook and quilt and weave and cross stitch… I have not hooked a round rug yet, though I’d like to. I bet the finishing is fiddly. I actually want to braid a round rug and then there is no finishing. (See- another thing to lose!!!)
    You make me think that I really should do a BIG clean in the studio. I have started, halfheartedly, several times, but never finish. I really have not done that since we moved in and it certainly needs to be done. I just cleaned my bedroom closet and I feel so good. And it looks so well organized. (Now I just need to fit in all those clothes…)

    • LauraS says:

      -You know, Deb, truthfully, how many hooking blogs can there be? I take the whole thing with a grain of salt. I’m happy for any exposure it brings. 🙂
      -Yeah, my laundry room/master closet which are connected and is where I keep all my hooking raw paraphernalia is a BIG mess. Studio cleaning. Yes… Elisabeth has been out of the house for almost 4 months now. She doesn’t want to come home, and we all get along so much better for it. (She’s here now for dinner and laundry.) Tom and I really have to get on the stick to repair the walls of her bedroom, paint, and set up my …FINALLY…studio! It’ll have a day bed for extra guest room (and a place Tom’s snoring self can sleep when guests take his “suite.”) I really have to get on the stick, but my RA has been a bitch the better part of the year, so a little slow. But it will get done soon! -You do so many things. I’m jealous. But that weaving bug is really starting to bug me. I said that I’d wait till I moved out here. Of course, I didn’t expect to be so busy with hooking.

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