Getting Ready

With April rug camp right around the corner it's about time I started getting ready.  I've cut and serged the edges of the linen foundation and hope to draw the pattern today.  I've a follow-up doctor appointment this morning and who knows how long I'll have to wait until he sees me.  But, I'll be taking Lancaster Barnyard with me and continue binding it.

There is also a pot with wool soaking to over-dye. 

I will attempt to dye a sepia color.  A rug hooking friend ('Ms P') shared a recipe and I just happened to have all the Pro-Chem colors.

And another friend ('Ms L') said Donna Hrkman only used one brown Pro-Chem dye to hook her "Paul Laurence Dunbar" piece.  Not sure which brown she used but in looking at the wool samples in the binder the two which look most like the color are #501 Mocha Chino, on the left and #502 Choc. Brown on the right.

This is a photo of Donna Hrkman's Paul Laurence Dunbar.

I re-read the article in an old issue of Rug Hooking magazine hoping to find out which shade she used but didn't see a Pro Chem name or number.  But she did describe how she got the values.

Back in the day when I worked in the office there was a phrase used and heard often.  It was the K I S S theory......"Keep it Simple Stupid".  So I will choose a number, use just one dye and keep the process simple.

Happy hooking.

Saundra
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Had an Idea this Morning

Immediately upon waking up I had a thought ~ it's as if someone sent it to me.  More on that later.....

April rug camp is moving in closer and had decided to hook "The Cousins".  Here's the photo:

The sketch:

I advised my teacher Cindy Irwin this was my initial plan, would be hooked in most #8 with more narrow where needed.  But confided I had concerns on getting a small green plaid for one skirt and blue plaid for the other.

A couple days later I wrote Cindy again saying I'd decided to hook the rug in sepia monochrome colors.  I've never hooked a monochrome rug before and it seemed interesting.  However did say that in case the project became too overwhelming (and camp is supposed to be fun) I'd take a back-up primitive small piece to hook.

So this morning it was as if my Mother was speaking to me from heaven.  Was reminded of two photos I adorded; one with my  mother and me on a bench and another when she was pregnant with me looking at a fishbowl.  

This one would be a challenge because the photo is so old and have never hooked translucent water in a fishbowl.

Kept looking and didn't find the original photo of us in matching plaid skirts and perhaps it is in a photo album recently loaned to my brother.  But in searching previously saved scanned photos did find this one with Mother and me on a dock.  Actually this might be even nicer to hook than the other.

Now I've a question for you who dye wool....do you have a recipe for sepia?  

You who are regular followers know I'm a fickle hooker so who knows what will go to camp with me.  Before I decide I've some sketching to do but can promise there WILL be a back up 😁.

Saundra