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| boring....wool... |
She should be flying over Mount Stewart by Friday for the weekend of the Hillsborough Eagle Festival. I've decided that I should tell you how things are going and what I'm actually doing to bore Jack so much. I have hand-dyed the blue sky...
I have cut the wool into strips with the strip cutter and keep the strips in order so that I can hook them consecutively...looks easy but it's a little hard on the brain....every long strip in order, so that the mottled dye job will represent the colors in the blue sky.
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| keeping track is worth the trouble...you'll see... |
Then you can get the full effect in the sky; but you have to look closely at the real thing. For some unknown reason the lighter spots on the wool hooked in around the bird...if I tried to do it, it probably would not work like that. Looks like I planned it that way; did you know that rug-hooking is like everything else in life: sometimes you win and sometimes you lose but always plug away anyway. I won this round so far but...I will not show you the finished ground in the piece until tomorrow....or until it works as well as the sky did....
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| she's flying over Mount Stewart PEI.... |
Now here is the latest version of her, flying happily over Mount Stewart - the river is in the shape of an S according to Rosemary Curley who sent me a Google map of the area...something mostly seen only by eagles and other fliers.
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