A little inspiration ~

I know that many of us are inspired by our surroundings ~

and it only takes a quiet look around to see colors and textures

that would be good in a new design...

 

that happened to me today!

 

while working in the shop this morning,

and rearranging all of the beautiful new wools we have
(from Rebecca & Besty)

my mind kept wandering to a certain rug in one of my older books on rug hooking...

 

 

big old cupboard stocked with wools

heaven !

 

another cupboard, this one is an old hoosier ~ packed with wools

delicious !

 So I grabbed the book, Joel & Kate Kopp's book to be exact,

and found the rug I was thinking about....

(I made a copy of the photo from the book, so I wouldn't have to lug the book around with me)

and got to work designing a large adaptation of the one in the book.

 

 

my adaptation of the antique ~

then the fun began!

...choosing the wools for this design would be a challenge,

 because I'm using mostly as-is textured wools

but with the help of friend Joan,

I think we did a good job at picking just the right ones...

 

 



is there anything more fun than playing with wool?...nah, didn't think so.

I never include my initials in any of my work,

choosing to either sign it or add some kind of label to it...

but

for this rug I wanted to include 'LB'

 



initialed and ready-to-hook !

as you can see by the photo below, there are LOTS of motifs in the antique rug ~
I chose the ones that I liked best and drew them in my "style"

...more whimsical than the original, I think...

 

 



birds, urns, horses...tulips, roses, vines...berries and leaves!
 

I will block-hook the background in browns & blacks,

... as the original was done.

 

I already have the horse hooked and flower above it,
and the lower portion of the tree-trunk hooked too...

 

will work more & share a few snaps of the progress in tomorrow's post :)

 

Peaches has become quite comfortable here with me...
he comes into the shop to work when I do ~ so be sure to say hello to him!
(we're trying to get him talking!)

Yesterday he entertained us by dancing to Country music on the radio...

(the little goober dances better than I do!)

 

have a beautiful evening.....

 

 

Lori from

Notforgotten Farm