A Slight Detour

Since I already have my sampler models finished for all charts to be released the remainder of 2009, I decided to take a little break this last weekend from stitching. Instead, I pulled out a hooked rug (my first) that has been languishing in a tote for a year and a half.

Rug hooking is a craft that I have long wanted to learn, but I have found that it isn't an easy one to do in the vicinity of small children, so after a brief start when Katie was a newborn, I have patiently waited to continue.

Here is my rug as of today (the design is based on a rug in Pat Cross' book Purely Primitive)...

Being my first, and not being sure whether or not I would truly like the craft, I am hooking it on a (free to me) burlap coffee bag panel, rather than spending money on rug linen. In the true spirit of the pioneer women before me, I suppose!

I have really enjoyed the small bit that I have done thus far, and have every intention of continuing to learn. But, despite warnings to the contrary, it will most definitely NOT replace my first love of stitching samplers; a fact that should make the majority of my readers very happy.