a few loops ~

I pulled a few loops last night,

haven't had much time to work this weekend ~

I am under the crunch of a deadline....

 

...but I did want to show you my slight progress.

horse is all hooked, now I want to add a little background...

 

 you can see that I am using a Miller hook,

I love using this with my wide, hand-cut strips...

 

great little hook!

here are some of my strips...

some are wider than others, but they are all between 1/2 & 3/4 inch strips.

I love the look they lend to my work ~

 

 



varying widths of my wool strips by hand cutting them...

 

 can you see how the large strips, when pulled through the linen with a smaller-shanked hook,

give the loops what I call 'rolled shoulders'?

 

 

dark outline completed around horse

 

when the larger strip of wool is pulled using a smaller-shanked hook,

the edges of the loops don't really pull completely through the linen,

...giving an almost knotted, or rag-rug appearence to them...

...I love this look!

 

 

loops pulled high through linen, and because of the wide cut strips, hooking goes faster :)

I'll finish hooking the dark outline around the other motifs,

...then start to 'block-fill' in the background.

 

notice the purple wool in the flower below?

the original rug has hints of purples in it, but I think these might have been reds or blues

that faded to lavender over time...that's the look I'm wanting to achieve...

 

 



little by little, loop-by-loop ~
 

what hook do you use?

do you hand cut your strips?

 

off to the post office & bank for me today ~

then I will get back to work on that deadline!

 

have a beautiful Monday my Friends!

 

Lori from

Notforgotten Farm