Good Luck Penny Rug

So yesterday, I decided to try to take some additional pictures of the penny rug that I have listed on Ebay. It doesn't have any bids on it so I'm going to switch up the pictures on it today hoping to draw some better attention to it.
Laying the penny rug on the floor by the fireplace, I started snapping. I have green carpeting so the contast of the browns with the green looks nice. I laid out the Pumpkin Penny Rug too just to get some extra pictures of it before it get sent away to it's new home ... the drawing for its giveaway is tomorrow folks, so if you haven't entered, go HERE to comment and to be entered into the giveaway.
My grandson, was here and he was in his somersaulting mood ... somersaulting from the living room to the dining room and back. He thought it was great fun to somersault over the penny rugs. Now, I have to say, normally, I take great care of the items that I make, but this was just too cute to scold him for doing. I wanted to get a really good shot of a perfect somersault, but my camera wasn't cooperating.
Being the ham that he is, loves to have his picture taken so naturally, when I told him the picture didn't turn out ... too blurred, he offered to tumble again .....

and again .......

and again ....

so that I could get as many pictures of his great feat as I needed. (He said "cheese" each and every time he somersaulted too). Roughly guessing, I'd say those mats were somersaulted on about a dozen times.

As I'm getting ready to type this, I remembered something from a rughooking book that I have about good luck somersaults on finished hooked rugs. So I went for the book and looked it up ...

How perfect ..... ! !

From Gene Shepards book " Prodded Hooking for a Three-Dimensional Effect"

"It was the normal goal for the family to have a new mat made by Christmas. Such a mat, perfect and clean, was displayed in a place of honor in ritualistic fashion. Once positioned, the youngest child in the family was asked to do a forward somersault on the rug in order to ensure good luck for the house during the coming year. The spot usually chosen for the new rug was in front of the fireplace, at the heart of the home."

Soooooooo ... whoever wins the Pumpkin Penny Rug will also win one year of good luck too, curtesy of my grandson!

Here's some new designs I'm working on .... This is going to turn into a set of 3 small shelf pillows and then if I'm happy with the design, I'll incorporate it somehow into a wool candle mat.

This is always how I start my ideas. I roughly draw it out on freezer paper and then make a pattern from that drawing, making corrections and adjustments in the design as needed.

Here's one that's almost finished. I have to say though, I'm not real happy with this one and will make corrections before it's turned into a shelf pillow. That crow is not good. He looks too cute and friendly. He needs to be nastier looking.
I really, REALLY, REALLY do not like crows.
We live out in the country and the crows, roosting in the nests in the woods are obnoxious, loud and annoying. I realize that crows are a very important part of primitive decorating, so I force myself, once in a while, to include a crow in my designs. When I make a crow though, I refuse to make it to look cute and friendly.

REAL CROWS are NOT CUTE AND FRIENDLY!

Oddly, as I'm typing this, I'm not hearing them outside, which is really unusual.

So this crow will be redone and he'll be nasty. :)

Happy Day everyone! Drawing for the Pumpkin Penny Rug Giveaway is tomorrow! I'm so excited!