Maryland Sheep and Wool Virtual Festival
Kris Miller from Spruce Ridge Studios
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1y ago
  The Spruce Ridge Studios booth at the 2019 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival The Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival is always the first week-end of May and something that I always look forward to.  This year the festival will take place virtually and Spruce Ridge Studios will be participating!  I will have a "Festival" special and an exclusive decorative pillow for sale on Saturday and Sunday.  Here is a link to the vendors (but you can't use it until Saturday): https://sheepandwool.org/partners/vendors/ Please note that the marketplace/vendors will go live on Satu ..read more
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More progress on Notforgotten Flowers
Kris Miller from Spruce Ridge Studios
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1y ago
Notforgotten Flowers Design by Lori Brechlin/Adapted by Spruce Ridge Studios Hooking by Kris Miller  Just one more leaf to go and then it's all background!   I used a lot of textures and values of gray but threw in some gray blues and that wonderful pink and gray herringbone for the flower on the far right.  It's more of a salmon pink, or maybe a brick pink.  The scalloped leaf on the lower right was outlined with a gray herringbone and then filled with a grayish windowpane plaid.  It had a lot of cream lines in it and I picked out the strips that were mostly cre ..read more
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Notforgotten Flowers update
Kris Miller from Spruce Ridge Studios
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1y ago
  Lots of progress on my neutral color plan for Notforgotten Flowers! I started calling this the "Goldilocks" rug because I've hooked in certain textures/values and then ripped them out again. Several times!  Too dark, too bright, just right! You can see in the picture that half of the gray petal of the big tulip is outlined in taupe.  I left it that way temporarily to show you the difference between outlining vs. not outlining.  I think that the photo shows the outline just a bit too bold.  In real life, it looks more like a soft transition between the light gray ..read more
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Rug of the Day - Notforgotten Flowers
Kris Miller from Spruce Ridge Studios
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Notforgotten Flowers Design by Lori Brechlin/Notforgotten Farm, adapted by Spruce Ridge Studios/Kris Miller I hooked this fun, cheery mat many years ago when I first started adapting Lori's artwork into rug hooking patterns.  Now flash forward to 2021.... A customer had ordered the larger size of Notforgotten Flowers and as I was drawing it, I made not one, but two stupid mistakes. I have been drawing patterns for over 20 years....I could probably draw them with my eyes closed!  haha!  I am quite picky about having them straight so when I am drawing the outside border line ..read more
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Rug of the Day - Matilda Hornbuckle
Kris Miller from Spruce Ridge Studios
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1y ago
Matilda Hornbuckle Hooked by Kris Miller A Notforgotten Farm/Lori Brechlin design, adapted by Spruce Ridge Studios Here is the adorable Matilda Hornbuckle!  She was my unfinished project that I mentioned in my last post...I had some background to hook in and I had not completed her face.  As is often the case, once her cute little face was completed, I had a smiling and mischievous friend looking back at me!  She really made me happy and the rest of the hooking was a snap! When I hooked the shoe, I pulled up some scrap pieces of wool (just a tail and then another tail) t ..read more
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Rug Of The Day Update-First Heavy Snow
Kris Miller from Spruce Ridge Studios
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1y ago
First Heavy Snow Designed by Cabin Creek Designs/Faye Schilling Hooked by Kris Miller I have been trying to wrap up some unfinished projects and here is one of them.  I just hooked the last loop on Monday night...it's not steamed yet but will be soon.  Then I'll bind the edges with the crochet finish, using the same Christmas plaid in the border.   This was so much fun to hook! I think my favorite part was figuring out how to dress up the snow people.  I can't wait to hang it up next winter when the snow starts to fly.  In the meantime, I've got another UFO (un ..read more
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Rug Of The Day - Puddle Duck
Kris Miller from Spruce Ridge Studios
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1y ago
Puddle Duck PJ Rankin-Hults design, rug hooking pattern adapted by Spruce Ridge Studios Here is a totally adorable design that is in my pattern queue to be hooked very soon.  I have always thought that this would be really cute hanging in a nursery or in a child's bedroom and now that I have 2 grandchildren, I want to hook it!  It should be a very simple and straight-forward color plan...I think I'll stick close to the colors in Pam's artwork but I still have to figure out a background.  This pattern should be a quick hook because it is only 12" x 18".  I'm going to ..read more
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Rug of the Day - Have Ye Any Wool
Kris Miller from Spruce Ridge Studios
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1y ago
Have Ye Any Wool Designed and hooked by Kris Miller/Spruce Ridge Studios (c) 2009 I just finished watching all 7 episodes of All Creatures Great and Small on PBS.  I don't know why the PBS app let me watch all seven shows before they have aired entirely on TV, but I couldn't help myself but binge watch all of them.   I have never read the books but I have been to "James Herriot" country, the Yorkshire Dales, 3 times so I was anxious to see the beautiful scenery portrayed on screen.  When you are there, it is so beautiful that you feel like you could be looking at a postcard ..read more
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Pattern of the Day - Basket of Hearts
Kris Miller from Spruce Ridge Studios
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1y ago
Basket of Hearts Artwork by Lori Brechlin/Notforgotten Farm Pattern adapted for rug hooking by Spruce Ridge Studios There are times when I am hooking on a project and I find myself overthinking the color plan for the design.  I end up making things much more complicated than they need to be.  Often this leads to frustration because I can't quite figure out what I'm going to do next.  I have learned to stop and tell myself "you need to simplify!"  By scaling back all the "busyness" and making things less fussy....keeping it simple...I find more creative satisfaction and joy ..read more
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Pattern of the Day - Be Still My Heart
Kris Miller from Spruce Ridge Studios
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1y ago
Be Still My Heart Artwork by Lori Brechlin/Notforgotten Farm Rug hooking pattern adapted by Spruce Ridge Studios This is a really darling design and a sweet, sentimental Valentine!  I have seen it hooked up several times but I must not have saved the pictures because a search of my computer files does not come up with anything.  I knew it had appeared in the ATHA magazine several times, too, but I could not put my hands on which issue (or issues) have featured it.   However, a Google search came up with the following link: https://farmhousenotforgotten.blogspot.com/2 ..read more
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