Jane Halliwell Green Landscape Class for ATHA National 2011

As hooked by Jane Halliwell Green
This entry is part 1 of 9 in the series Jasmine’s Butterfly Garden

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 [...]

Blue flower patch in the lower left corner and the path

Tiny hooked flowers
This entry is part 2 of 9 in the series Jasmine’s Butterfly Garden

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 [...]

Hooking a birch tree – let the wool do the work

birch-tree-hooked
This entry is part 3 of 9 in the series Jasmine’s Butterfly Garden

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 [...]

How to hook tree leaves: Birch Tree

closeup-tree-leaves
This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series Jasmine’s Butterfly Garden

Hooking the leaves on any tree is more about observation than it is about hooking. Really spend some time, or at least an hour or so, looking at trees. This hour will save you hours of hooking frustration. Hooking the leaves on a tree is all about finding the shape that will give your tree [...]

Hooking a natural sky: Step 1

hooking-a-sky
This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series Jasmine’s Butterfly Garden

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 [...]

Rug hooking creative stitches: Shagging

rug-hooking-shagging
This entry is part 6 of 9 in the series Jasmine’s Butterfly Garden

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 [...]

How to hook tiny sunflowers in a pictorial

Hooked sunflowers
This entry is part 7 of 9 in the series Jasmine’s Butterfly Garden

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 [...]

Adjusting the design of a rug hooked pictorial

beginning-of-roses
This entry is part 8 of 9 in the series Jasmine’s Butterfly Garden

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. [...]

Final hooking of rose bushes and adjusting the path

Jasmine's Butterfly Garden designed by Jeanne Benjamin
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Jasmine’s Butterfly Garden

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 [...]