What a great time at Happy Trails Rug Camp!!!

Happy Trails Rug Camp was a huge success!!!!

As you can see from the picture above, the ladies were busy punching and just having a great time.  

We spent three days with Frank Bielec instructing and entertaining us.  He kept us in stitches with his stories and jokes. He is such fun to be around and I think everyone enjoyed their time spent with him.

This is Kay and Laura from our group of rughookers here in Oklahoma. They both do beautiful hooked rugs and decided to expand to oxford punch. Well, needless to say, they caught on quick.

Kay was the first one to finish punching her project.

Becky is also one of our Oklahoma rughookers.

Ginger's mother-in-law, Pat, decided to join us.

She had never punched before, but as you can tell, she did a beautiful job on her Snow Lady.

As a bonus to rug camp, Frank drew each person a pattern on monks cloth or linen. Carol, another Oklahoma rughooker, is watching  Frank draw her pattern.

To the right of Kala and Ashley are some of the things Frank has created.  He is a very talented artist and his whimisical paintings are very unique.  I bought two(will show them another time).

Camp ended on Saturday about 4pm.  We had spent three days of laughter and fun and now had to head back home. Everyone got their stuff together, packed their cars and said their good-byes.  

So another great time spent with friends and new friends!!! 

Happy October and have a great week!!

Blessings....patijane

Weekend happenings!

This past weekend was perfect fall weather for me! Saturday I spent watching college football games and binding a couple of rugs. Sunday I spent outdoors doing some yard work and bringing out fall decorations. I was going to post on Sunday night, but got busy getting things together for our upcoming "Happy Trails Rug Camp" at Ginger's house beginning Thursday, September 29.
So here is what I have been doing this past week.

I enjoy hooking rugs but always put off binding them.  Not my favorite thing to do. However, I learned a new method of binding and so I don't mind it so much anymore. These two rugs have been hooked for awhile so glad to finally have them finished. The first rug was drawn by Ginger.  Ginger, Sandra and I were going to do a rug every 3 months and Ginger was going to design them. I think Ginger designed 2 or 3 but this is the only one I have done.

Ginger's design

Small Penny rug

I have also started doing some cross stitch. I have not stitched on linen before and my friend, Betty, of Primitive Bettys gave me some help in getting started. The pattern is designed by Betty.

Stitched on 28 count linen

 

Fall is my most favorite time of the year and so I had to get some fall decorations out to start enjoying it.

 And of course, I had Emma for a couple of times during the week and we spent time playing.

Well that's it for the past weekend. I will be at Ginger's for rug camp the rest of the week so watch for new posts.


Have a great week!!!


Blessings.....patijane