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'Stocking The Chimney' by Della

1/10/2013

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I loved hooking this Christmas Stocking called "Stocking The Chimney".  Your website is wonderful, lots of pictures and you've been posting pictures on Facebook and I saw the partially hooked Stocking The Chimney you were working on and knew right away I NEEDED to do that rug.  lol

I love geometric designs and when I saw your brick work I thought oh my, that is beautiful, I'm  going to pay close attention to try to figure out what Christine did so I can do  the same! I was very pleased with my resulting brick work.  I had some overdyed  burgundy that I thought would look  great as the bricks, it was an old skirt from  Frenchys' and the grey was also recyled wool from Frenchys' probably a skirt as  well.

You've commented about Santa's jacket on Facebook, I struggled getting the  'right' shade of red for his jacket.  I've recently been learning to dye wool  using the Wooly Mason Jar method but knew the shades for that weren't going to  be a deep enough red.  I tried some Pro Chem and Majic Carpet two different  shades of red and didn't find it was going to be 'right'.  So back to my stash I  went and found
what I thought would work best for the jacket, it was something I  purchased at some point, looks to be spot dyed.

I've been hooking since  2007 and I don't think I've ever done a human face so I did what I thought  looked right but the nose bothered me.  I tried bright red, then pinkish then a  light brown.  I
haven't sent you a pic of the nose changed back to the original  red I had started out with.

I've decided that I will probably try to do  one Christmas sock each year for my family members but this one will be for  me!  Thanks for the pattern and it helps seeing the patterns hooked, it  inspires one to do it! Keep up the good work.     Della

By Guest Blogger Della Ackles

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A closeup of the items in Santa's goodie bag.
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Ribbon I used for the Christmas present in Santa's sack.
5 Comments
Mary Doig
1/11/2013 09:05:50 am

Hi Della. What beautiful work you did on your stocking.

I am curious about the wooly mason jar method you used for dyeing. Could you tell us more about that, please?

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Sunny Nestler link
1/22/2013 12:12:02 pm

Wowser! Y'all have the BEST blog! Would you mind if I shared this link on my rug hooking blog? Your article on transferring patterns is terrific... and then I saw your Christmas stockings... and your Mahone Fog pattern! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the pattern you used on facebook with the link to your Red Dot transferring article! I have GOT to get one of your Celtic patterns, but I don't think I'm good enough to do that one yet! As a matter of fact, I'm telling my Hubby which patterns I want... my birthday's next month, and he's always trying to find something I really want!!

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Christine Little link
1/22/2013 09:18:09 pm

Your note just gave me an idea for another blog. The easy way to hook Celtic designs. Thanks!

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Sunny Nestler link
1/22/2013 12:13:44 pm

I forgot to ask... RE the Red Dot transferring article, is that by Christine or Mary? If I get to share the link, I want to be sure to get that right!

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Christine link
1/22/2013 09:16:24 pm

Hi Sunny,

All articles are written by me unless they say 'Guest Blogger'. Go right ahead and share.

Christine

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