Return to Long Point and the 2015 OHCG Annual Rug Hooking Show

I returned to cooler, rainy weather, flowers, paths and shrubs covered in sand and Lake Erie adrift with ice that floats back and forth in front of my windows, dependent on the wind direction. Inside the geraniums are in flower (cared for by Simon during my absence) and two new walls built (also courtesy of Simon).
Ultimately the ice will melt or make its way down to the East end of the lake and over Niagara Falls. Soon I will have raked and brushed sand off the paths and living things that need to get the sunlight. By April 31 (Ministry of Natural Resources deadline) the bulldozers will have cleared the piles of sand around the cottages and the beach will be summer-ready.
In the mean time the walls need to be primed and painted and the trim and doors painted too.

Rasta has been very cuddly since I got back. He pushes the tablet or book off my knee to get
my undivided attention and he is with me wherever I go in the house.

Very interested in the painting process. Straight up the ladder.

Not so easy, getting down.

Maybe I should get him a little kitty white hardhat. Lying on the bed, "supervising".

Haven't finished the painting yet but this weekend was the 49th Ontario Hooking Craft Guild Annual Meeting and Show, at the Lamplighter Inn in London. There is no perfect venue for this event. Its difficult to find a place that accommodates all the Ontario rug hookers that want to come, and our rug display, meeting and breakout rooms and rooms for the vendors. Light in the vendor and display areas is always an issue as we want to see the materials in natural daylight. The Lamplighter is a good compromise as it fulfills most of the requirements (lighting really being the only one that it fails on). We learned from the last time we were there that we didn't want a room near the atrium with the smells and sounds of the swimming pool and had comfortable rooms, one with a balcony and one with a sitting room to hook in.

There were huge rugs and

and smaller pieces.

Some are serious works of art. This one by Trish Johnson won in the
Pictorial category.

Some are more whimsical. This one is by Pam Watkins.

One whole wall of the display area was the Barn Raising Project. Hooked barns that
will be displayed in various locations through the province. There is also a book of the project.

An unusual perspective, from above, by Grace Tanfara.

A fruit barn by Ruth Emmerson.

By Karen Kaiser.

I left, as usual, inspired to hook more and more creatively.