Life is Good. Not to worry, I'm not abandoning the challenge group and will continue to post your progress on my blog but thought I'd give everyone a break to look at something different.
As soon as I pulled the last loops on my Tulip Challenge I grabbed the Patriotic Shield and reverse hooked the cotton flannel I'd hooked when it was my challenge choice. Grabbed some red, white and blue textured wool and my Townsend cutter. This is what I've accomplished so far. I drew this measuring 20 x 21, hooking the stars in #8 cut and the rest is hooked using #8.5 cut.
It is an adaptation based on the following antique rug. This rug was located in Shenandoah Valley, Va. measures 30 x 88 and sold for $13,000 in 2008. It was hooked 19th century. I've been wanting to hook this Shield for some time and now is the time. When starting to work on it for the challenge just knew it was too precious a piece to me and bigger than I wanted to do for the challenge. So I pulled out these loops and went for the Tulip instead. FYI, Lisa if you're reading my blog want you to know that I decided to straighten the lines and re-drew them down the ditch. I'd originally thought of following the unevenness of the antique but made more sense to hook them straight since I'm using #8.5 strips.
Happy Hooking everyone.
Saundra
WOW what an awesome antique rug. Yours will be patriotic as well! Janice
ReplyDeleteYou have a lot done on the antique mat,,,,Glad u decided to keep going but with wools,,,,Looks Great,
ReplyDeleteLove the antique rug! Are you going to do the background the same way the original rug was? I am enjoying seeing all the challenge rugs so glad you put it together.
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I'm planning to do the background with hit and miss like the original but MAYBE will put a bigger star on each side at the bottom.
DeleteYour patriotic shield is off to a great start! What size cut are you using for the stars? Did you hand cut them? They look amazing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the question and just provided that info on the blog. The stars were hooked with #8 cut and the rest with #8.5.
DeleteLove your shield .... the stars are perfect ! What is the foundation you are using ? It has little streaks going thru that , does it help with your designs ? Keeping things straight ???
ReplyDeleteI love your shield- current edition. The tones you chose are perfect. 👩🍳 (There’s not a Luigi kissing fingers of perfection)
ReplyDeleteLooking good. I do love that eagle in the original rug .
ReplyDeleteHa ha...the very first thing I noticed was how perfectly straight and even your stripes were! It's looking great although I am not sure I will love a hit and miss border.....I'm kind of boring like that. 😉 I would love to see you hook the crossed flags heart and the eagle too. They you would have a hooked version of a triptych.... ~Robin~
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