Where rug hooking wool meets imagination
This is as far as I will go with this piece. I am leaving the sky unhooked on purpose because I think it will make a better teaching piece. Sometimes it is easier to duplicate a technique when you can clearly see all the steps. I posted this picture large. Click on it to enlarge [...]
To the students of my ATHA class: My Piece is “done” and the kits are almost complete. See you in a week! Here are some progress posts to bring the progress up to speed. I needed a splash of red and my Knock-out Roses were in full bloom, so red rose bushes became my focus. [...]
The most important thing I can say about hooking anything small is to not look at closeup photos. Sure it makes sense when I say it plainly here, but I am surprised by how often I see this process. If you are hooking something in the distance, get reference photos of that something from a [...]
Today I moved my attention to the area in the lower right. Jane Halliwell Green does a technique called shagging. It’s related to proddy or sculpting. I’m not sure how she came up with the name, but it reminds me of shag carpeting. I hooked a double row like she recommends, but it was too [...]
Today I had a few moments to hook, but no brain energy to scour up the next few colors. I decided to get some of the sky hooked. The method I am using is described in my book, Pine Trees, Grass and Sky.Hooking in the sky loosely helps to make the project move faster and [...]
I used my specially dyed birch bark wool to hook the birch tree. Just simple hooking here. I cut the darker part of the wool in a #5, the lighter in #7 and simply hooked it. I did change the shape a bit. I used to have a birch tree in our backyard. It was [...]
Using four values of blue and two different greens, I hooked the small patch of flowers in the lower left of the pattern. I roughly hooked small circles trying to keep it as random as possible. Random does not mean evenly spaced. Random takes some thought and does not happen by accident. I do not [...]
Due to some health issues that make travel difficult, Jane is unable to teach her class this year in Lancaster at the ATHA National. I’ve been asked to fill in. I have her hooked piece and initial instructions in hand. Now I need to prepare the kits. Rather than guessing, I decided to hook the [...]
The text of the series on footstool construction has been posted, but images for the last post and all the videos are still in progress. I will be offering for download a PDF with all the steps in one place once all the instructions are finalized.
Please note that the current instructions will probably change a bit as I work through this process.
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