Great to be home after a fun filled week in the great state of Iowa. Met up with some old friends and made many new. I hooked snow and gray scale fruit piece, a sheep with wool quilling, and propped up my swollen leg after the wear and tear of travel. Maddie, my niece, was my nurse and brought me fresh ice bags each evening. (Had arthroscopic surgery to clean out the arthritis a week prior to flying out) Going to have the other one done in May and i will be as good as new, I hope. Flying is not as fun as it used to be. We were stuck in Milwaukee of all places for 9 hours until we could get a flight to OH. Twas a long day, so grateful for home.  Had a wonderful Easter celebrating our Savior's resurrection. Our parents were here along with sisters family. The only thing missing was our wild brother in Tampa. Grandpa still got the chocolate rabbit ears fromt the kid's baskets as he has since we were little. As kids we used to make a fuss but now the grandkids just hand over the rabbit for his biting fancy and deal with it.
Stacking up hooking projects to complete during knee recovery while my sister is busy in her flooded gardens.
Attended Punderson Rug Camp the first week of April and studied under Sybil Osika, not my first adventure with her and not my last. She drew a giraffe for me and a flower garden that I am still working on. Great camp and teachers, Cynthia Norwood runs the camp and already has the line up for next year so check it out.
Don't forget the Kingwood Center-North Central Ohio Rug Show and Hook in, Mansfield, OH on June 18. It starts at 10am sharp. A fun filled day with vendors Heavens to Betsy, Wool Yankers, Crows on a Ledge, The Village Rim Yarns. Larry Ault plans to attend to show off his new cutter. Contact me if you would like more info. The show and hook in are free but there is a charge of $5/carload at the gate.

Back from Iowa!

Had a great time in Iowa with kids in tow as we went to our McGown Teacher's Workshop.  It was cool and rainy, but had lots of fun hooking and learning new things.  Since Katie is certified, she's considered a Senior (ha ha, finally deemed older than me for once!) so she was able to take some fun classes. She also taught a kilim rug that turned out great.  I am a Junior student, so I did a fine cut piece called Birches and another piece called Fruit.  It was out of my normal comfort zone doing fine cut, but I really liked it once I got started.  You can use a lot of your scraps to those pieces.  We also had a dyeing class with Cammie Bruce and it was exciting to see those pieces come out of the microwave and crockpots.  We did some marbelizing and dip dyeing.  I would encourage you to consider getting your McGown certification even if you don't ever want to teach.  It's amazing what we can learn from others!

The weather is not cooperating here in Ohio for my garden which looks like a flood zone.  My purple asparagus are under water and the leeks have washed away.  But the blueberry bushes are blooming as are the fruit trees.  I am looking forward to getting my other plants out into the raised beds out in my mini ocean!

Out next hooking adventure will be at Cherry Valley Lodge for the Buckeye Rug Hooking Guild spring meeting the weekend of May 20-22.  Maybe we'll see you there. 

Enjoy your hooking time when the rains keep you from weeding the flower beds! 

PS...Katie's got all the pictures on her phone from Iowa so I'll let her post those