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
