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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …