This is the latest hooking that I have completed. It was a companion piece to the leaves but it took me a while to source the right colour wool for the Luna Moth. In the end I used some upholstery fabric which is fraying but it looks ok. I loved working out the colors for the moth that is on the bottom of the panel.
I finally finished the hooked rug of the water at Wharton Bay. I had a lot of trouble with the white crashing surf and how to recreate it. I am not totally happy with the results but overall I am happy with it. I hooked the white clouds and thought they just looked like plain white blobs so I took a variegated yarn and hooked it up between the white wool. This gave it a beaded effect which added to the depth and texture of the clouds. That was my new discovery. My photo has lightened the colours a bit. The teal colour in the middle is actually a bit greener and brighter in real life.
This is the one that I am working on currently. It was inspired by a recent fishing trip to the Duc of Orleans. I fell in love with the water at Wharton Beach and took lots of photos of it. On our way home through Esperance we stopped for breakfast and I ducked into a little craft shop and found a basket of Cascade 220 yarn in the range of colors that I had seen. I bought them not knowing what I was going to do with them. So most of this rug is hooked with yarn rather than cut wool.
I worked on this little rug for an online class with Deanne Fitzpatrick of Nova Scotia. She is the lady that I bought my first kit from. We were working on water and sky. It was inspired by my memories of a two week family vacation to Cape Cod. I was not happy with the grey house in the lower left corner. Deanne said that because I have so much movement going on with the water and the sky I should make the land a place for the eye to rest. So I ripped out the left corner and redid it. Not sure I was successful at making it more restfull. You be the judge.
Mr Pickle. The pattern was an inexpensive pattern that I bought on ebay of a traditional looking cat mat with welcome on it. I embellished the border and the background. I made it for TV who loves her kitten Mr. Pickle so I made the cat look like him.
This was my second attempt at hooking. I bought the pattern again on ebay from Olde Scotties Primitives. I loved the simplicity of it and since I was going back home for the Fourth of July it was appropriate. I put 2010 on the plant pot since it was the year that I went and Ana was graduating from University. It is now a nicely backed pillow.
My first rug should be here but I have to get a photo of it. It was the first kit that I bought from Deanne Fitzpatrick of sunflowers. I thought myself as I worked on that rug. I laugh now when I think of some of the rigid ideas I had about hooking back then. It took me about a year to do it as I would only hook for short periods of time and I had it on a huge quilting hoop that was quite awkward. It now belongs to Ana.
