A Little Yellow Goes a Long Way on Off the Wall Friday

Thank you all for so enthusiastically joining the We Do Not Care Club, Quilter's Edition.  I'm making a list for the next meeting.  Feel free to email me any additions you would like to make.  

It's been a busy few weeks with my deep dive into rug hooking continuing.  I managed to finish the little flower project:

Little Flower, Nina-Marie Sayre 8" by 8" 
Hooked Wool

I'm all happy with this.  The wool was super suspect, but it taught me that really you can hook anything that will make loops.  Also, it solidifies in my mind what kind of hooking I will eventually do. 

Also, drum roll please...I finished the grapes on my current project.  Looking at them now, I might go back and pull some out to do them again.  They are the kind of thing that you really need to see them in mass to see which ones aren't working quite right.  The whole thing with rug hooking is that YOU decide where the gradations go.  Like I said, some might need to be redone.  But before I do that, I decided to go on to the watermelon.  

The yellow is so much fun.  It's gradates from light to dark.  Watching the yellows blend so seamlessly together is very cool.  

Speaking of Yellow, 

Two weeks ago, our local historical society unveiled a sunflower field for its first season.  Unbeknownst to the general public, they made a deal with a local whiskey distillery that if the distillery would provide the seeds, the historical would plant the sunflowers at a historical farm they acquired.  The next thing you know, come August, we have 1.2 million sunflowers growing as far as the eye can see.  It certainly made a grand statement as the historical society intended.  Blessed as we are, its the next town over.  The nice thing is that the public was invited to visit and enjoy all the yellow. Thousands came to walk among the sunflowers.   Seeing it really took your breath away.  

The seeds will be harvested in September and given back to the distillery to make sunflower whiskey.  

I call that a win-win.  

Hooking the yellow this weekend, brought back to mind enjoying the field on a hot Sunday afternoon with my family.  It was the highlight of the summer for sure.

As always, it's the simple things.  

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