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One stitch left. One final pull of dark cornflower yarn into this massive rug. Background. Earlier this year, I had planned to produce a latch hook rug of one of my photographs, my shot of the Quechee Covered Bridge in Vermont. The problem was, however … I started the project and hooked in the wrong…

Man, I had a great couple of weeks on this. Suffice it to say, if I had all the yarns I needed when I started this … and if I started it three months earlier, instead of doing this as a replacement for a latch hooked rug that I previously FUBAR’d … this could have…

I was on a really strong run … and then I ran out of lime strands. Again. Ran out of yarns. Nuts. But during the time when I had enough yarns to go around, I made a lot of progress on this latch hook rug. In fact, let’s do the comparison. Scrolling back and forth…

So I haven’t posted any progress in the past few months. That does not mean I’ve given up on the project. Let’s recap. Earlier this year, I digitzed a 1960’s postcard of an old NEBA Roast Beef / Mike’s Submarines shop that previously existed at the corner of Central and Colvin Avenues in Albany (around…

You know what? I have come to the realization that unless I take a couple of months off from everything AND all the yarn I order from Herrschners comes in when I need it, getting this hooked rug completed in time for the New York State Fair – at least for 2022 – ain’t happening.…

The trickiest part of working on this kind of art project is finding time to dedicate to it. You have to block out your time, you need to avoid distractions, you have to plan things so that no one will disturb you or distract you. You need all your supplies. You need a comfy chair…

I know, I know, this is normally reserved for a leisurely Sunday morning blog post, but last Sunday’s post was taken up by acquiring a new car, and next Sunday I’ll be driving back from the NBL Canada-TBL All-Star Game Weekend in Syracuse, so today is as good a day as any to share progress…

Normally at this point in time, I’d complain about running out of some esoteric color and having to work around it while another color shipment from Herrschner’s came through the mail. Well, this time the problem wasn’t my yarn. It was my hook. More specifically, the hook itself broke in two. The metal rod pulled…

I made a lot of progress this week. And I’m kinda proud of that. Let me explain. If you look at the grid for the latch hook rug project, it shows 26 columns and 17 rows. And I finished the bottom two rows this week, along with working my way up the left side. To…

Damn it, I ran out of bronze. And I’m also running short on green. And why this corner of my artwork requires light lavender, and all I have are strands of dark lavender and regular lavender … ugh. Such is the adventures of working on this big latch hook rug project. The left side of…