I am in the midst of trying to finish up the Vermont Shells hooked rug and it’s bulky to move around. I have joined a local rug hooking group and need something to take along with me to work on, so I dug around in the rug hooking bin and found this rug! This is not a new project, you can see the part I ripped out, but one that I started in Illinois and was not happy with. I was teaching rug hooking at various places and kept designing little 8″ pieces that seemed like a good size for students to complete and could be made into something. I liked the designs, most of which were quilt-y sort of designs and came up with the idea to put them all in one sampler rug. You can see that I started to hook the heart square and I am fairly sure that I was using dark reds and trying to choose a black and white tweedy background and I didn’t like any of it! I am so glad I stopped working on it. Now that we live in South Carolina, I am not so interested in dark, wintery sort of colors. I am always very affected by the colors where we live and dark just doesn’t sing to me right now.
So, what colors to play with next? I was sifting through my shelves of hand of dyed wool and came across the basket with marbleized fabrics in it. Wow! I really enjoyed dyeing them but they are so different and I wasn’t sure where to use them. How about using them in the re-do?
So here’s the start of the hooking. I designed this pattern for a quilt store class (called Katie’s Leaves) and here it is in the Primitive Colors that they liked so much! I know I am going to love my version…
I am now very pleased to have such a fun portable hooking project.
LOVE the way those marbelized fabrics look when they’re hooked up – this is going to be spectacular! (can’t get the link to work for the other version)
Aren’t they interesting? I’ll see what’s wrong with the link. Here’s a link for a hooker that uses marbleized wool almost exclusively and her work is quite unusual.
https://karenkahle.wordpress.com
So glad you’re working on a rug hooking project! It looks like fun :). Beth
I agree! It’s fun. You know how I keep dragging my feet with the Vermont shells… ;-D
Oh, I did rug hooking once–I liked it but never did it again. I’ll be interested to watch yours develop!
Have you made your woven hot pads yet?
Hey Kerry: Try Amy Oxford’s punch needles, and you’ll never go back to traditional rug hooking again. Check out her website http://www.amyoxford.com. I have no professional relationship with her; just giving you something fun to look at. Went to your Etsy. Nice stuff. Patsye
These look very intriguing–I used something similar many years ago and it really was better. Since I just took up weaving, though, I better focus for awhile. Thanks for the helpful comment and for stopping by Etsy.
Fabulous! All of this is wonderful. Let’s hook up in Asheville…. Patsye
Let’s do! Sorry, I’ve been trying to get the powder room all painted so that my husband can install the new pedestal sink and repair the toilet. We’re under a deadline for a neighborhood party! I leave for Florida and more hooking on Monday. Let’s shoot for mid March. Hope you’re staying warm!
Call me when you get back. Enjoy Florida. Patsye