Well, these days we are not doing much work outside – just toooooo hot and humid. We do try to do a bit every morning before the heat gets unbearable but the kind of work I have left to do outside just is too energy consuming to do for long. So we will just have to wait till cooler temperatures are back. Or, as Gord says – next year 🙂 .
We did get a contractor in when I realized that lifting all the flagstones (a few hundred) on the lake side was a bit beyond me. It had really gotten lumpy bumpy and overgrown over the years and was messy and unsafe for walking on and just a pain to keep nice looking so contractor came in, dug out alllllll the flagstones and weeds, removed a ton of sand and put in lovely earth and sod! It now looks so nice (Gord keeps threatening to head out to the yard with his putter and golf balls) and I cannot wait till next year when the grass is lovely and thick and not quite so tender! and I can have hookins again on the porch, on the grass, around the fire pit and on the landings down to the dock, and of course on the dock and boat … Will be such fun as it has been a few years since I held a hookin here at the house. Fingers crossed that by next year the pandemic and all the variants will be behind us. A few pix of our new and improved lakeside yard…
Before…
After…
So instead of labouring outside, I have been dyeing wool and yarns and putting together patterns for people and having fun in the studio. Plus, for the first time in a long time, I actually had time to go through my “Finished Items for sale” page and update it – I have added a few more pieces discovered in the cupboard, sizes and prices.
I have also been considering holding classes again in the studio – small so that we have lots of room to spread out – once we know what the numbers are doing. I have been double jabbed for months, go nowhere and would ensure all the spaces being used are well sanitized. I am thinking of starting with an introduction to miniature punch needle followed up by a rughooking class perhaps an introduction to designing and hooking primitives or using alternative fibres mixed with wool strips and various hooking techniques to add texture to your rugs. If anything appeals to you please send me an email – hookedonthelake@kingston.net.
And now, a bit of show and tell:
Diane finished framing her Pig in Posies miniature punch needle in an amazing box she bought in a lovely shop in Almonte…
Rochelle finished punching her Frog and Fishes (one of my Alana Kapell patterns available in rughooking or miniature punch needle…
Hooked On The Lake 