Rottweiler Memorial

What piqued my interest in wanting to learn to hook rugs was the look of the primitive rugs I would see while looking thru issues of the older Country Living magazines, plus the fact that I have antique furniture (well eclectic and antiques).  So then as a hooker and visiting camps and rug shows I'd see these lovely narrow cut rugs.  I wondered if my choice to hook wide cuts and primitive was really because I would be lousy at narrow cut hooking.

So I decided to try a narrow cut but knew it would have to be something near and dear to my heart or I probably would never finish it.  So I decided to do a memorial profile portrait of my dearly beloved Rottweilers Shumba (the mother) and Panzer (her son).  They are hooked in #3 cut and I was so happy to have successfully finished that so did the background in #5.  If I thought I could have pulled it off successfully I would have hooked the background in #8 but knew there would be too much difference.

So just as soon as that was bound and hung on the wall I immediately drew out a primitive pattern of my dear dogs and hooked it in #8.  Ahhhhhh, I was in heaven.