For as much as I am enjoying hooking the Initially Yours series it will be nice to start something that doesn’t have a letter in it. I have a number of projects I’d like to do. A rug for the pattern room that says “Patterns” to hang inside the door jam. Surprisingly, people come in the shop and leave and tell others I didn’t have any patterns. No serious rug hooking shop would be caught dead without patterns to sell. So if you come in and don’t see any, please ask!
So I thought I would hook a long vertical rug with the letters “PATTERN” blazed down it, maybe on coloured burlap so I don’t have to hook the background and then mount it on a wood frame. Make it simple and basic so the letters stand out and are legible from the front door. If they still can’t find the pattern room, maybe the glasses need changing, just sayin!
As soon as the initials are completed I would like to begin work on the Welcome Mermaid, one of my latest designs that's as cute as a button. I plan to hook it and mount it to a board and hang it in the shop for this summer’s tourist trade so all the visitor’s, rug hookers and otherwise will feel welcomed!
And then I’d like to hook an art piece, show off a bit of my shading technique. My Temptation design that’s been calling me since the day I drew it out. This will be a challenge and I like a project that tugs on the grey matter.
I finished my Initially Yours Q over the weekend and I’ve pulled the wools to begin the letter H. I’m thinking Honey Bee so black and gold. It will be completely different from any of the ones hooked to date. The background will be a gold and black herringbone so I’ve chosen a matching yellow called Golden Yarrow, a new formula Shane created and several degrees of black. It’ll be interesting placing the colours. This will be 6th of the final patterns to hook. I’m saving the N for the very last. N is for Nova Scotia and it will be the most difficult to hook by creating a Nova Scotia Tartan background. Stay tuned!
So I thought I would hook a long vertical rug with the letters “PATTERN” blazed down it, maybe on coloured burlap so I don’t have to hook the background and then mount it on a wood frame. Make it simple and basic so the letters stand out and are legible from the front door. If they still can’t find the pattern room, maybe the glasses need changing, just sayin!
As soon as the initials are completed I would like to begin work on the Welcome Mermaid, one of my latest designs that's as cute as a button. I plan to hook it and mount it to a board and hang it in the shop for this summer’s tourist trade so all the visitor’s, rug hookers and otherwise will feel welcomed!
And then I’d like to hook an art piece, show off a bit of my shading technique. My Temptation design that’s been calling me since the day I drew it out. This will be a challenge and I like a project that tugs on the grey matter.
I finished my Initially Yours Q over the weekend and I’ve pulled the wools to begin the letter H. I’m thinking Honey Bee so black and gold. It will be completely different from any of the ones hooked to date. The background will be a gold and black herringbone so I’ve chosen a matching yellow called Golden Yarrow, a new formula Shane created and several degrees of black. It’ll be interesting placing the colours. This will be 6th of the final patterns to hook. I’m saving the N for the very last. N is for Nova Scotia and it will be the most difficult to hook by creating a Nova Scotia Tartan background. Stay tuned!
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