- Day 1 of rug hooking: Putting the pattern on the backing
- Day 5 Rug Hooking Progress
- Day 5 Rug Hooking Continued
- Day 7 Rug Hooking the rose
- Day 10 Rug Hooking Progress
- Day 22 Rug hooking the scrolls
- Day 35 Still rug hooking the scrolls
- Day 36 My temporary rug hooking set up
- Day 38 of rug hooking: Resolving the Large Leaves
- Day 44 of rug hooking: Rose improvement
- Day 44 Georgia loves my hooked rugs
- Day 050 Rug hooking all weekend
- Day 65 Rug Hooking Progress
- Day 94 Finally got to hook!
- Border progress-Cat’s paw
- Day 94 How to hook crooked loops not straight ones
- Day 99 Circle Border Under Consideration on Room-sized Rug
- Day 275 Progress on border and scroll
- Hooking the circle border
- Day 281 I spent the 4th hooking!
- Back on the border of the room-sized rug
- Day 372 Rug Hooking Progress and Jack
- Day 381 Measurements
- Day 425 Thanksgiving weekend, some progress
- Day 434 Background
- Day 436 Organization
- Day 440 Almost done with center
- Day 442 Center DONE. . . well, almost
- Use and Abuse of Hand Hooked Rug
- Day 1200 Border Design Finalized on Room Sized Rug
- Day 1207 First shot at the final border
- Day 1223 Hooked Rug Border Evaluation
- Day 1232 Hit and Miss Corner on the Room Sized Rug
When I am hooking something new for the first time, I just jump in and try a few things. With this rug’s border, I wanted to hook in some more red. So I added red to the largest element, the big scroll like motif. I added a line of gold around the outside similar to what I did with the large scroll, except I only put it on one side.
When I hooked the second one, I noticed how closely it resembled the roses in the rug. What if I hooked that part of the scroll like my roses? I needed to change the gold to the other side, the outside, of the scroll.
But am I missing the opportunity to bring in the green and gold that I used in the large scroll? So I hooked the rest of the scroll using that combination.
This is a closeup of where I changed from red to green. The secret is to keep the values similar and textures also help to smooth the transition.
I decided to make the background around the small inner scrolls red. This will give the dose of red I am looking for, but now do I have too much red? My goal now is to hook the next one with the red and green changing closer to to rose so that the scroll is more green.
This is beautiful Cindy, I like the rose effect in the border. The change to some of the border having red and green changing to rose sounds perfect.
Cindy, this rug is absolutely beautiful. I just finished my “lion” rug last night with the wool yarn over cording for the binding and my hands hurt soooooo much, but he looks so wonderful. I cannot imagine the weight and hours you have in yours, but what a keepsake for years to come. Thanks for sharing the process with us.
Betty
Cindi, I am sure enjoying this process with you. I like your hit and miss and kitty paws with the pattern. It would go into any room decor and be be perfect ! Thanks for sharing and looking forward to the next post.