Room-sized hooked rug begins
Day 1: October 1, 2007 Room-sized hooked rug begins
This is the pattern design now. The borders will probably change as I go. It took me a full day to prepare the backing. I had to iron it because it was folded badly for a long time and some of the creases were quite sharp. Next I zig zagged the edges with my 1975 sewing machine that is in desperate need of an adjustment. That took forever. Then I traced the pattern onto red dot.[clear]
I only traced the center of the design out to the scrolls. I left off the borders because I will probably change them anyway.
Update Jan 14, 2018: The center of this design will be offered as a pattern in 2022.
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Day 5
Rug hooking on my room sized rug has gone fairly easy so far, but I did my home work before I started. I knew how the motifs hooked up and how all the wools worked together by doing several “study” pieces.
I am not satisfied with how the vine wraps over the center support. I will change it later if it still bothers me.
What I hooked in preparation of hooking the room-sized rug
I designed a stair riser, Queen Anne Rose, with some of the motifs that I wanted to use.
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Next I hooked a footstool, Square Pocketful, using more of this same color scheme.
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Karen Kahle’s pattern, Antique Rose Runner, used lots of hit and miss, again in the same colors.
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Next came another stair riser, Annie’s Scrolls.
Finally, I designed a companion footstool, Annie’s Flower Power, experimenting with shapes and using the same color scheme.
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I took the rug downstairs. This was no easy task. The backing alone weighs 20 pounds!
I wanted to be sure that the rug was going in the direction I wanted. You can see my couch with the footstool in front of it. I am pleased with it so far. I am now very anxious to get it done.
Day 7 Rug Hooking the Rose
I am not happy with the rose. I will try to hook it another way when I do another. For now, it will stay as it is. If I rip it out now, I will not have a record of what DOES NOT work. Knowing what does not work is often as important to know as what does work.
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I don’t want it to look like a spiral. Here’s a version of a rose that I like better that I hooked years later:
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Instructions for Queen Anne Rose Stair Riser
Day 10
I began hooking the scroll.[clear]
Day 35 Rug Hooking the scrolls
The design of this scroll is based on the porch supports at the Chalfonte Hotel in Cape May, NJ. I fell in love with this hotel and the area the first year I taught at the Rugs by the Sea rug camp. It is held every year in September. There are two weeks of instruction offered.
I started the hit and miss that will be outside the scroll. I haven’t decided how wide to make this border, so I hooked it the largest I think I want to go. If I decide later that I want to make it smaller, I will just rip out — that will be easier that adding to the length. I started with one row of dark at the outside of the scroll and I felt the scroll was getting buried by the hit and miss. I increased the dark to three rows of the background color, making the outline more pronounced. I think this will work.
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Cindi, where do you find backing large enough for a room size rug? Is monks cloth the only one that comes large enough to do say a 5 X 8 rug? I would like to attempt a room size rug but the monks cloth I have in bulk right now is not wide enough. Thanks!
I have rug warp in stock (as of June 2012) that is 75″ wide. Plenty big enough for a 60″ or 5′ rug with 7.5 inches of excess on each side.
You can buy it in my store, but I don’t always have it in stock. It only becomes available from time to time. I buy it when I can, but when I run out, I have to wait until it is offered again.
How much would that amount cost from you?
You can check the current cost here: https://rughookology.com/product/rug-warp-rug-hooking-backing/