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DESIGN #10 - AUTUMN PAISLEY

4/17/2023

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I thought I would do something fun for the month of April.  The creative juices are flowing and I am working on twenty new patterns to add to our line of designs.  I will be launching them all this month.  Five patterns a week from Monday to Friday, starting today and winding down on Friday 28th.  Some are smaller, some larger and all else in between.  There are a few new Christmas designs, a bit of whimsy, a geometric, an interesting contemporary choice, etc. Let’s see what I can pull out of my hat. 



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DESIGN #10 is AUTUMN PAISLEY


Well, I seem to be one pattern behind because today is supposed to be #11 but I will catch up this week.  This project was probably more ambitious than I realized but I guarantee by the 28th of April I will have launched 20 new patterns, come heck or high water.  I'm having a great deal of fun, and after what I've been through with Long Haul Covid, it's a breath of fresh air to be creating again. The smart thing would have been to design them all in advance and then launch them each day with ease, but when do I ever do anything easy or simple.  I stopped beating myself up over the weekend end when I couldn’t make it to the shop to do up an extra one to fulfill the quota for last week. 

It’s a big deal to draw a pattern on paper, work out the details and make sure it is hookable, create the red dot and then draw out the design on linen with a sharpie.  The lines are always too light after the red dot is removed and they all need going over with a marker to darken them. It’s very labour intensive to be as neat as possible. Most of these new patterns, and most of our designs in general, are not simple with few lines and little detail.  Most are crammed with creative elements; interesting borders and a lot are of decent size.  

Today’s #10 is the largest so far in this project and I must be honest and admit that it was actually created several years ago so it isn't new to me but it is to you.  It was forgotten in the heap of semi-finished designs, in various forms of completion, that are cluttering up my office. I truly forgot this one, being distracted by the business of running a shop.  I’ve been digging around my office for various bits and bobs of ideas and notes and discovered it.  I also unearthed a pattern I created back in 2000 that is the largest one to date, that I only made once, it sold and was hooked by a very talented rug hooker in Yarmouth in yarn and although I’ve not seen it finished, I heard it was spectacular.  The poor pattern was then retired by a slip of memory.  I was tickled pink to see it again and plan to make it up at a later time as it would take me all week to draw it out. 

I used the center of Autumn Paisley as a free pattern in the Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia newsletter The Loop back in 2016 so it’s been around awhile.  I love the marriage of paisley and an October harvest of pumpkins, pomegranates, flowers, leaves and acorns.  I even coloured it in at one point with these gorgeous autumnal colours and still managed to forgot about it.  The initial drawing was small, 8” x 10” so I sent it out to be enlarged to 34” x 41 ½”, made the red dot and transferred it to linen today.   For those that like hooking with wider cuts this pattern is perfect with the larger details and motifs, but for those that prefer the finer cuts, it would be perfect as well.   
 
Autumn Paisley  34” x 41 ½”
https://www.encompassingdesigns.com/new-designs.html

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Autumn Paisley coloured in using Photoshop.  
13 Comments
Irene Michaud
4/19/2023 10:45:28 am

You just hit a nerve Christine! I love paisley patterns and this is really beautiful to say the least…..I just started working on Beach Partttty so it will be a while, but this is in the running for the next pattern…..love all of the new patterns so it will be difficult to chose💕

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Deanna Lynn Mehlenbacher
4/19/2023 10:46:23 am

Irene Michaud I second that I have four now that I just love! How to choose , how to choose…..

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Lesa Zwicker
4/19/2023 10:46:52 am

I was trying to imagine it with color. I got the pumpkins covered 😁. This is a beauty.

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Betsy Moore Sarver
4/19/2023 10:47:26 am

Beautiful pattern!

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Kathleen Lombardo
4/19/2023 10:47:59 am

Love this!❤️

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Audrey John
4/19/2023 10:48:26 am

Gorgeous!

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Sherrie Robinson
4/19/2023 10:48:59 am

Love it!

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Elizabeth DeHaven Abel
4/19/2023 10:49:49 am

Love it!!

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Deanna Lynn Mehlenbacher
4/19/2023 10:50:26 am

oohhhh WOW I love this one.

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Adena Clark
4/19/2023 10:50:56 am

Wow, this is a stunner!

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Bee Oh
4/19/2023 10:51:34 am

Always wanted to do a paisley, lord knows I have enough of a wool stash.

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Debbie MacIntosh
1/30/2024 01:52:27 pm

Just love this one,I automatically thought of plums and navies.Would it work,I wonder?

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