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Skies

10/22/2013

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I am really into cloudy skies in my hooking lately. Having that kind of turbulent background in a rug can be tricky. You do not want to overwhelm the other elements in the rug and make sky take the predominant position.


For this particular piece I am combining a dip dye for the upper sky and spot dyes for the clouds.  Of course I am always throwing in bits and pieces from my fabulous worm bag! Don't know how I could ever do without that collection of bits!


I have begun removing the more opaque  whites and replacing them with the spot dyes that you see in the clouds on the left. After getting this much in place, I hung the rug and looked at it for a few days, This piece is quite large and I decided that much movement with the very opaque whites was going to command too much attention. I do like the more transparent look that the spot dye makes against this dipped backdrop. 


I hope that you are engrossed in your own rug hooking projects! It seems to be a great way to welcome the cooler, (who is kidding here?) more like downright COLD weather of this season. It is not even winter, yet!

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Dye Class and Editing

10/8/2013

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Well, that seems like all I have done lately! Truly, taking on the Editor position for ATHA has been taking up a lot of my time lately. After the first issue is completed then the next ones should be less time consuming. I have been doing a little hooking on a McGown teacher's workshop project from a few years back. It will be a bag when it is completed. I think that it is nice to have a "to go" project. Something small and manageable to take to do a little hooking with friends.

I am also working on a much larger project and will reveal that when I get more done. This week I have completed a large pattern for a customer and dyed wool for projects for several people.  All this while the leaves in the mountains are at peak color! I do enjoy the photos that they show on the news every night. . . but just have not had the time to tear myself away and go take a peek! The cooler weather is definitely refreshing! There is snow in the mountains and more coming. Just had our first in-town snow last week. The poor tomato plants were loaded with too small to harvest fruit.

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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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