Long Point - Weekend with Hooking friends

About four times a year a group of us get together for food, drink, shopping, rug hooking, fun and most of all friendship.  This past weekend was one of those times. Pam, Pat, Heather and Lynn came to the cottage and we sadly missed Peggy who stayed home to celebrate her husbands birthday with the family (it was one of those milestone birthdays). Whenever we get together we make a heck of a mess as rug hooking is not a nice tidy hobby.

On these weekends we each take responsibility for a meal and so get to taste a great variety. We always have requests for each others recipes and have talked of creating a recipe book , unlikely, but recipes will be emailed out in the next week or so.

If I looked at the pictures of our past get togethers I would have a wonderful history of our hooking projects and I am now getting more conscientious about taking those pictures

Pam was finishing a rug of her own design commemorating all the "weener" dogs she has owned.

Heather was working on the J Js contribution to the PanAm games. The OHCG is hoping to have a rug for every one of the participating countries. Although Heather wasn't thrilled about the pattern she "soldiered" on and the moose and beaver turned out well. She can now pass the pattern on to the next volunteer.

Pat was working on a "proddy" rug for her renovated bathroom.  Proddy involves cutting material into small rectangles and prodding it through the backing. The picture above shows the back. The one below shows the front.

Lynn was recreating a card as a small mat, in spite of the red wine that spilled on it in transit. Luckily she planned to hook the background in red wine colour.
Along with the food and hooking, we also sat outside and were entertained by the kite boarders who came to the beach in droves on Sunday

Oh yes, and I was working on my Race Night Port Dover rug that I started about three years ago. Id like to finish it this winter.