Once I ripped out the olive toned leaves I hooked using the dip dyed swatches that I had hooked the scrolls in, and I found the results made more sense to the overall color theme.

I pulled a lot of leaf color swatches when I was color planning this rug. The ideea was to have the scrolls in a different color way than the leaves. Once I began hooking the leaves the olive tones were too distracting and seemed incongruent with the remainder of the rug. So, I pulled them out and began again. . . . and again.

Jubilee is a rug that I began during the two-day class at South Central McGown Teacher Workshop. Kathy Kovaric and Jude Vegso taught the two day class. I started with a set of dip dyes using Hunter Green Cushing dye over a variety of mill-dyed yellows, blues, green and pinks.  I dip dyed each of the mill dyed wools so that just the tips of the fabric retained the original color with the dip slowly progressing to the darkest color at the bottom.

Here she is releasing ideas into the universe. Creativity Goddess still needs more work - embroidery and layering of fabrics, but she is coming along.

The Goddess of Creativity
This design was inspired by a Hubble photo of a far away galaxy — and what I saw in that photo. The original photo is below next to a sketch of what I envisioned. With this newest venture I continue to play with overlaying my hand-dyed wool with embroidery and layers of nylon,  silks and organza fabrics. There will be more layering as this piece continues to develop.