I have been Easter Knitting - Easter Eggs! I think I have lost it! I call them "Egg's new Easter Sweater".
Can't believe it is almost Easter. Happy birthday to Nathan (3/3) and this year, Easter is so early it is a couple of weeks before your birthday (4/4).I have been very busy working on the latest edition of The Loop, the Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia Magazine. Took it to the printer yesterday - now I wait until I have to mail it out - but the "monkey" is off my back and onto Garth's, our printer.
I have been busy - mostly rug hooking. I had a hook-in at our house - 4 days with 11 of us plus "drop-ins". It was really nice. This house is a nice sport. Lots of light and I think everyone found it comfortable. We had a good time just hooking and talking.
I have been working away at Hands on Crafts. Our shop will also be one of the shops at the Spring Fling Hook-in in June so we are busy getting wool dyed for this.
I have also been knitting and hooking. I finished a diagonal scarf made with Noro. I had one of these but lost it somewhere so I made another to replace it. I also hooked a Welcome mat. It is a Deanne Fitzpatrick that I picked up some years ago at the funny little knitting & everything shop in Whitney Pier in Cape Breton (outside Sydney). It is made totally of Frenchy's wool. Really like it. I have it for sale down at Hands On.
I have also been working on the Jones Farm. Pam MacIsaac -Adams , my partner in the hooking shop at Hand On, did most of the dyeing for the mat. I particularly like the "old brick" a colour from Christine Little at Encompassing Designs in Mahone Bay. I had to overdye it lightly with seal brown (Magic Carpet dye) to get it toned down a little but it really seems to work. I am following the picture and it is really interesting and coming out well. Like painting with wool.
Now that the magazine is done I can do what I like - hooking, knitting and spinning! Really enjoying the spinning. It is SO relaxing. Sitting down and just spinning, they rhythm of it - I just love. I am working on colours right now. I am spinning leaf green, purple and blue and then will ply them together to see what I get.
Your father is off today to St. Lucia to do some work with them on adult literacy. He won't be gone for very long but at least he will be warm for a little while!Love and pats for Rushka.
Mom XXXOOOPPPP
