Arrived home from several days in West Virginia covered in bug bites, tired, but with most of the whipping done on this rug. We cannot make the family reunion this year, so we took the grandkids down to see their Great Grandpa. We had perfect weather but on the ride home, I began to notice the bug …
WOMAN WITH BABY
Woman with Baby is almost done
After several meetings at the Senior Center, I finally have the background done. I tested out a border last Thursday. Join us for our twice monthly meetings. I think the border needs to be narrower. I thought about trying a wood grain look using the blue and brown, but I am going back to …
Rug Hooking an Interesting Background
There are many ways to hook a background. Here is the way I chose to hook the background on Woman with Baby. I wanted the background to remind the viewer of foilage. Image that the woman is sitting in front of a forest. The round circles are not leaf shaped, but still give the impression of …
Green Blurry Foilage Background Continues
I hooked more of the background and my impression now is that the background will work. There still is not enough hooking to tell for sure, but I will keep hooking. The look I want is blurry leaves or bushes in the background. I have an astigmatism and cataracts and my vision is always a bit …
Rug Hooking Some Background on Woman with Baby
Here I am testing out the background. I plan to use three slightly different shades of green spot dyes. The background will begin dark at the bottom and gradually lighten. I am not 100% sure it will work at this point. I will continue hooking until I am convinced it will not work -- or I get the …
Work Begins on the Baby
You see a lot of holes from pulled out hooking in this area. I am reusing a piece of backing. I was able to choose different sections from the lightest wool to hook the fingers, adding a bit of the dark in between. I was careful to keep the fingers short because I wanted his fingers curled into a …
Rug hooking on the Widecut Face Completed
This is when I can evaluate my progress. I do not stop and fuss with the loops until I get to this stage. I think her left cheek needs a small rework, but otherwise I will move on to other parts of the rug. I am really pleased with the three textures I chose. They are blending well now but once …
Continuation of How to hook a Wide Cut Face
I hooked some of the lighter areas. Since I already hooked many of the darks, all that remains is to fill in with medium. …
New Project: Woman with Baby
My project to teach this year at Teachers' Workshop is a wide cut female face. I have it hooked but I cannot share it with you until after the workshop. In the meantime, I decided to see if I could also hook black skin using just textures. I've always been told by teachers that you should hook …
