As you can tell by the look in Tynan’s eyes, I have NOT finished the Boucherouite-esque rug yet. Yes, I am very close, but here’s the thing: I need it completely done for Friday evening when I pack the car for Saturday’s vending gig. That gig would be the Sunflower Festival in Mountainair, about an hour and a half southeast of Albuquerque.
The Sunflower Festival is supposed to be a fun time, and I’m looking forward to it. But I’d feel a hell of a lot better if the rug was done NOW! See, I have a few other things to do this week. Ironically, they’re all hooking related. Thursday, I’m hooking with friends. I considered staying home, hopefully, sewing up sed rug, but then they pressured me, told me they were making gluten-free items for lunch. Who blows off friends like that? (Or the GF food?)
Friday, Cathy Kelly is teaching some of us in the guild a yarn-dyeing method that’s done with a microwave oven. We’re dyeing yarn rather than wool fabric, so it really appeals to me. Check out the yarn she brought in to entice us into learning the technique. Yum!
So, somewhere during the next two or three days, I need to finish hooking the rug, steam it, and hem it. Then price and tag it and enter it into the inventory log. Agh! Oh, and pack the mobile store into the car, adding a tent and leaving room for Tynan. Since we’ll be gone all day Saturday, he gets to go. While I love his company in the booth, he does have a habit of upstaging the merchandise. Maybe I can get him to demo the “Woof” rug while he schmoozes with potential customers.
Gotta run now, have to hook!
PS: Check out the home page; we’ve added two other shows to the vending line-up.
Hope the hooking and finishing is progressing! Sounds like you have lots of hooking fun this week.
Not much new here. The eclipse on Monday was perfect – no clouds. It was quite a sight. We were on the banks of the lake and many people were in their kayaks and pontoon boats, so it was festive.
I’m weaving this week.
-It’s done! Tonight I need to plan a rug to work on Saturday. I hate vending with nothing to hook. I’ll do a mug rug.
-Ooh, share what you’re weaving! Next year… Laughing because you mentioned getting one of the little pit holder weavers. MY sister-in-law sent me a pic yesterday of my niece weaving on a really old one. I’ll have to give her a hooking lesson when we’re back east in October.
-Can you believe that it was cloudy here in ABQ on Monday? I did notice a temperature drop, and I could barely make out the eclipse crescent through the clouds. Glad you got a good show.