Concrete Pumpkins

 Last evening my neighbor said c'mon over and help me make pumpkins. So I did. It was fun, and messy, and definitely not a one person craft project. We developed a rhythm and made all these in about an hour and a half.

We made most of them using panty hose and twine and concrete. I had been collecting hosiery to hook with but then I never did. So what a good use of them. Didn't they turn out so cute? 

Neighbor Sandy wanted sone red ones, I did not. I like just that grey color. 

The ones in the pumpkin molds will be Sandy's because I don't want red. 

And the little white dog is pretty cute too.

I hope you have a great weekend. The hook along has started. I've drawn up my pattern but that's as far as I've gotten. 

Sue

Fall 🍁 is upon us

 

The leaves are starting to 🍂 fall. Not enough to really rake up or have to mow, but enough to rake into a pile and jump into. Mac often spends the night and this day they had fun playing in the leaves.

I enjoy decorating for the season. 

I wanted "blue" or "green" pumpkins. I bought a pack of organic seeds for like $6. I planted them all and got just this one pumpkin. I will save the seeds and hopefully get more next year.

The mum came from the Mennonite community just north of me. This beauty was only $7.50, and it's huge. 

Adding in the fur kids.

This is a picture from the internet. I don't have near enough dollies to do this. 

I have numerous walnut trees in my yard. I mostly just toss the nuts into the field or woods. This year I've saved some. I'll dry them and make garland like Lauren has. 

Have a wonderful Sunday 

Sue

Look Alikes

 

Does this??

Not looking like this??

The bottom picture is of my son some 35 years ago. The top picture is my grandson last week. They look so much alike. 

Just Call Me the Bag Lady

 Does anyone else do this??

Save bags to hold all those darn worms?

But my golly, how many bags does one hooker need? There are all sizes. 

Small

To large.

I saved these in case I need extra large.

Pretty bags,

Bags from the store

And then when it's time to go to rug camp I get brand new clean bags. 

I think I may have a bag problem. LOL.

Sue

H&T Society Day

 Another great day of hooking. We meet at the local library and the librarian is a new hooker that plans on joining us. Yay.

Jo was working on some snowman coasters. Her friend had asked her to serge them. So she did, each individual one. Whoops. So she sewed them back together and is carefully hooking them. 

Michelle was hooking away on her bluebird.

Sheila was putting a backing onto her pumpkin. It was her birthday on Saturday. We celebrated with cookies from Cookie Crumbl. Oh my, they were delicious. 

Katherine is working on a big one . She also brought all these for a show and tell. Her work is just lovely. 

Great! Right??

I'll show you what I worked on later. And another yay. It's raining. We need it so much. Ohio is in a drought situation.

Sue 

Hooking News

 The newly formed Hook & Thread Society met for the second time on Sunday. We had five in attendance. It's good to make new friends. Here's a couple of the gals hooking away. 

A cute little Santa all ready for the holiday to arrive. 

I liked this snippet bowl made out of wool. One of the ladies is a fiber genie. She sees something she likes or something she wants and she charges ahead and makes it. Me? I dilly dally looking for the perfect fabric, the great pattern. I usually have ended up not making whatever. 

This is my rug. I had a piece of not very wide linen. Actually I have several pieces like this. I've drawn on it several times, a Halloween cat, then there were two cats, and now there's ten hearts. I had to sew on some flannel strips to the sides as it was not wide enough to stay on my frame. 

I got this far at the Society.

Then yesterday was a blah day for me, so I hooked, then hooked some more. So far I've just used worms. But I'm running very low on the neutrals for the background and I'm two strips short of the dusty pink for the border. I'll have to look for that pink and then wait til I see Lauren to cut it. I believe it is a 9 cut and I don't have that size. 

The day begins. Soon Mac will be here as we wait for the bus. The little fella is growing up. He will kiss me goodbye at home, but not at the bus stop in front of the other kids. 

Have a good day. Sue