More on Other People's Work

A lovely ride with new friends this morning to a rug hooking event at a church about an hour away.  Very well organized, and 165 people in attendance.  I only photographed a few rugs, but aren't these wonderful?

A lovely classic design. I'm partial to dark backgrounds.

"Panda Family" was a punched rug, one of only two punched rugs I saw there today. I found myself attracted to the animal rugs. These two were tiny and very sweet.

Love the expression on this kitty. And as a bonus, you get to see parts of a couple of additional rugs below and to the right.

The talented Lynda Faye designed and hooked this pillow to commemorate a beloved dog belonging to her grandkids (I think she said)--he'd passed away and she immortalized him in this charming pillow.

Another animal rug, but this time including a human. The caption reads: "A woman's place is on her horse; you can ride as fast as he can run, never fall off...I dismount with style."

Amazing and subtle coloring in this Green Man rug.

Drama! Love everything about this.

On the left above is a rug I designed, dyed yarn for, and hand-punched in 2016. (This was only one of two punched rugs I noticed at this exhibit today) On the right is the finished version of Phyllis Lawrence's wonderful rug--she has named it "Contemplation."

Phyllis's Contemplation rug deserves its own photo (apologies about my shadow on the bottom of this picture!). Such lovely work.

Good people, good food, good vendors.  What's not to love?  I even won a prize, and I never win stuff at these events.  All in all a very satisfying day.  We started out early in very cold weather and saw plenty of snow on the ground and gorgeous snow-laden trees.  Driving home, all the snow was gone.  Spring is on the way...if we can only hold out long enough!