Color Planning

As many years as I've been hooking I still feel out of my element in color planning a rug.  For Hannah's Hen (a Woolley Fox design) my first thought was to use the wool on the left for the background and the mixtures at the bottom for ground.  Hmmm, but maybe I want a more creamy background so threw the top wool in to take a picture.

Perhaps a little more hooking on the hen would be better for me to make up my mind.  Heck, I hadn't even fully decided which wools to use for the hen.  Some seemed too dark and others seemed too bright but had the textured colors.

So then I pulled a few more loops on Hannah and took another picture.  It is hard to see but I did hook a short row of the wool on the top right at the neck of the hen.  That row would be one of the two lights to the top that I'd be using and think I'll go with those.  The other more creamy stripe would be too close in value with what I want to use for the ground.......which is a combination of all or at least two of the wools below Hannah.  Still an UN-decided.

Check back to see what changes I've made because I'm not quite sure about the colors for Hannah's wing separation either.  Could go lighter could go darker? 

 

Hey, Barb Carroll, where are you when I need you?  I know you read my blog so feel free to chime in to me personally.  Wish I could go shopping in your wool collection and your knowledge was close at hand.  Anyway, I'll get my Barb Carroll fix in May and Deb and I are looking forward to it.

 

Have a great evening everyone, hope all of you (and me) in the area of the winter storm will be safe.  Thank goodness the 4 days without heat was this week and not next. 

 

And, as always, please be kind to one another.

 

Saundra

Good Katz Bad Kat

Oh my but there is one nasty Kat giving me fits and I'm considering changing the design of it to make it more hooker friendly.  It worked fine when doing the silk painting but when you're painting with wool it makes it a little more dicey.  Uh, unless I were to hook it in a #3 NO thank you!  The problem Kat is the unfinished orange and pink to the far right. 

Yeah, I know there isn't a whole lot of progress.  That is because I get up and walk away and do something else to get a break from trudging on or changing things. 

With the body design and the tail triangles going on I'm afraid it will look like one HOT MESS.  I've re-drawn so many lines on the body to follow that I can no longer figure out the atlas I've drawn.  So ME is thinking that perhaps I'll leave this side of the rug and go finish the polka dot tail of that lovely dark orange kitty on the left and the cutie behind it.

Of course I love the design and can't wait for it to be finished so I can enjoy it.  But now is the first time since starting it that it hasn't been fun.  I'm sure things will change once I start working on the other side.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Sunday. 

Saundra