A reclaimed thermometer art project

During the post-Thanksgiving shopping weekend, one of my friends alerted everyone on Facebook to his warehouse sale. It’s the kind of pop-up where you go through a warehouse, maybe you find furniture or shelving or antiques or some other bric-a-brac. He’s a good guy, I figured there might be something worth checking out. I eventually…

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The Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of November 28, 2025 – NOW IT’S DONE!

Remember that covered bridge latch hook project i worked on for the better part of a year? You know … this one?? Technically, all the stitching and hooking and yarning that took all year is complete. But I still had to take care of one small feature. I had to reinforce the sides. And that…

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A master print of A CO Railfan’s Dream

I really like this digital-meets-film collage from earlier this year, A CO Railfan’s Dream. This one, to be precise. But I want to do something extra to it. And by “extra” – I have an idea. I purchased some laser printer transparency sheets, which will allow me to use a photocopier or a laser printer…

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The Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of November 28, 2025 – it’s DONE!

Thirteen months of hard work. 44 inches in height. 80 inches in length. 53 different distinct colors used. God knows how many episodes of AEW Dynamite and AEW Collision pro wrestling I watched in the background while doing this. This is a slideshow featuring, step by step, my progress on this rug as chronicled in…

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The Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of November 23, 2025

So two weeks ago, my original plan for getting this large latched hook rug complete ran into a tangle. I had originally purchased all the necessary colors, and enough bags of those colors, to supposedly complete this rug without complications. However … the best laid schemes of mice and men, you know … And sure…

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The Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of November 10, 2025

I don’t know about you … but I feel like I’m moving faster and faster on this project. I sit down after dinner, grab the canvas, and start hooking. I take a Saturday morning, go run my morning errands, come back home, and start hooking. I mean, this was where I was last week at…

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The Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of November 3, 2025

This is crazy. I started this rug project – a recreation of a photo I took of the Middle Covered Bridge in Woodstock, Vermont – last year around this time. I dibbed and dabbed at it, and halfway through the project I put it aside, causing me to miss the deadline for completing it and…

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The Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of October 27, 2025

Yes, I’m still plowing away on this custom-made latch hook covered bridge project. Background for those who are new to my blog. In October 2024, I took a photo of the Middle Covered Bridge in Woodstock, Vermont, just at the peak of foliage season. And I thought to myself, that would make an incredible latched…

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The Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of October 9, 2025

As of right now, my left and right panels for this latch hook covered bridge are complete. Which makes me very happy. But I still have to connect them to a center panel. Here’s what I have so far. So what this entails is a third piece of canvas. I have to make the canvas…

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The Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of October 6, 2025

Hey folks … guest what. I’ve reached a milestone on this major latch hook rug project. I finished the right panel. Let me explain. This is the biggest latch hook rug I’ve ever crafted; so big, in fact, that it takes three panels to complete. This is the left panel, I finished that a few…

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