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Letting Go

1/31/2014

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I have again begun work on the rug that I blogged about back in October - called Letting Go. Between teaching at Little River, then Steamboat Springs, Thanksgiving and getting layout and edit done on ATHA magazine, and then Christmas — I have not had time to hook much. But now I am happily hooking away!

Editing the magazine has made me think more about how I edit my hooked creations. There are many times that I will rip out a whole section to try to get things more the way I want them to be. I will often hook in elements very quickly so I can study things like body gesture and color. Then I go back and refine the hooking. I did not feel that the little girl looked little enough, and the balloon was too easy to over look.


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So, I made the balloon red, and gave the little girl a pony tail and changed her dress color. You can see by my toes  in the photo above, that this is a larger rug!
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Steamboat Springs Camp

1/31/2014

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It is hard to believe that it has been 2 months since I taught a faces camp to the wonderful ladies in Steamboat Springs! It was a fast few days of furious hooking, but they got a lot accomplished! Not only did they learn to visualize and hook a portrait, but we sculpted the faces as well. You can see what a fun texture the wide cut becomes when you clip the loops! I had a camera card melt down and am unable to put all of the portraits up for you to see. But, out of nine women there were 9 wonderful portraits!

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    I am a fiber artist and sculptor living in sunny, Tennessee.  I have a home studio where I dye and sell gorgeous wool fabric. 

    Teaching rug hooking, sculpting and how to dye wool are some  of my favorite things to do!

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