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 blurry so I am familiar with the look.
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Hook an interesting background using small circles and spot dyed wool so that it looks like distant foliage.
After spending an entire week in the company of good friends, in a room painted a beautiful shade of turquoise, I am finally putting the finishing touches on my room-sized hooked rug. As we still have another full day here, we could have waited a little longer to take the photo, but the weather might…
Day 281 I spent the 4th hooking! As promised, here is another picture of the rug. I made a lot of progress this weekend. Most of the progress is in the upper right hand corner. When I lug it back upstairs, I will hook more of the border this time. Once I decide that the…
Hook a trial border on your rug to see if it works. Usually a 6″ length of the border will tell you if it is right.
Getting the pattern drawn on the backing for my room sized rug takes all day of Day 1. I Begin hooking the flowers and the scroll.
I am beginning to add some of the background hooking foilage without hooking foilage, just small green spot dyed circles.
