~ Fading Rabbits & Beauty-lines ~

Howdy Friends & Folk!! 

a little windy where you are?

 March is marching in like a Lion i guess….

I'm finished hooking this little mat ~

Nancy B. has named it "Quick as a Bunny"…

I was stitching back the edges

~ and didn't really like how said rabbit is fading into the background…

so I did what any respectable hooker would do ~ I found some cinnamon-red-hot cotton fabric, and stripped it into 1/4" strips and am hooking it in-between my already pulled wool loops….

...see how he's fading into the blue?

in the photo below, you can see what I'm talking about….

where I hooked 'in the ditch' between my previous hooked rows.

~ hooking with cotton fabric is just as easy as hooking with wool ~

or velvet, or yarn, or synthetics…

it's the same loop, but you may want to make your strip wider if the fabric is flimsy.

when I am putting in a 'beauty-line' as I call it, 

I don't really mind if my loops go akimbo or this way & that…

I kinda like the character it gives, and keeps it humble 

:)

I chose the orange-red color fabric 

because the blue & the red are some-what complimentary colors on the color wheel

{green is actually red's complimentary color…opposites attract}

but I may tone the red down a bit after I'm finished with a bit of walnut stain…

we'll see!

more progress…

so I'll continue the beauty-line all the way around my bunny's body…

but not his tail since that was hooked with my own handspun sheep wool ~

but then again, I can change my mind on a whim!

I'll share more on this rug later…

Have a beautiful Early March day my friends!!!

get outside & enjoy the weather :)

~ Blessings from the Farm ~

 Lori