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Art for a beholder's eye!

1/26/2013

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A clever mind and able fingers made this fun "Family Portrait" of sheep.  Actually, Sue said she nearly burned them off hot gluing the backing on the frame but I think it’s worth losing a bit of skin over.  Everything Sue does is immaculate.  This piece of art is ready to  be taken home and hung, all you need is a picture hook. 

A while back, we received a shipment of coloured burlap and linen.  Sue had been in the States and saw that folks were appliqueing designs on coloured burlap and then sewing it into pillows so we thought, "Why not hook something?  Same deal, no background!" 


Some of the colours really spoke to me, begging to be used and I'm losing sleep coming up with different ideas to utilize them.  If only I could hook as fast as I think, or at least have the time to do it all!  Now I’m imagining hooked salt boxes of various colours on the different coloured backings; whimsical, eye catching gifts for the coming tourist season.  

Sue Cunningham bought a piece of the seafoamy  coloured burlap and whipped up this fetching piece called “Family Portrait” .  The sheep are all wearing coats of Curly Locks (Mohair Boucle).  Some are done in the natural while others are hand-dyed charcoal and what I call Sooty Santa, to separate the various bodies and of course black for the little bad boys!  She hooked the faces and legs in black wool fabric. 



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Julie McDonald
1/26/2013 06:05:35 am

Could you dye linen and get the same effect?

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Christine link
1/26/2013 08:07:11 am

I'm not sure. You would have to have the right dye...wool dyes wouldn't work. Then you would have to make sure the weave didn't shrink, maybe block it when it is wet with tacks it to make sure it holds its shape. I didn't dye the burlap or the linen shown in the picture...I bought it that way. It would have been woven with previously dyed strands, not dyed after the fact. I would worry that the dye wouldn't pentrate evenly in the fibers. Worth a try I suppose.

I have several colours of dyed linen in the shop as well as the burlap.

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Sue Dollhopf
1/26/2013 10:50:37 am

What colors do you have of linen?

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Christine link
1/28/2013 12:21:47 am

All of the coloured linens and burlap are now posted on the website under
Shop/Supplies/Backings

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Christine link
1/26/2013 11:48:35 pm

Let me see...I'll have to do this from memory so hope I don't miss one or two.

I have a seaform green/blue, navy, white, pink, light blue, charcoal, brown, grey, green, red, gold....I could take a picture on Monday of the colours and send them to you.

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