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Sky Style
I’ve finally finished the roadside and pavement of my Prairie Sky piece, (after making a number of colour changes and adjustments to the hooking style). I ended up using a variety of materials….3...
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Catching Up
It has been several months since I last posted, the longest gap in all the years I’ve been recording my hooking adventures here. With fall well under way and a skiff of snow on the ground this morning,...
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Hands On
Well now I know why I didn’t hook the remaining three hands when I hooked the rest of the maidens nearly a year ago. They were tricky! …It took me several attempts, a couple of methods and lots of...
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The Power of Value
Do you often find you have some part of your hooking that really pleases you? For me it is frequently just a small touch that really warms my heart. It has worked just the way I had hoped….or perhaps...
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Hooking the Buildings
After completing the arch, I was so happy to move on to the buildings visible in the background. Some time ago, inspired by a post by Gene Shepherd on dyeing very pale tints, I dyed a few small pieces...
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The Third Building.. My Modus Operandi
My modus operandi is definitely….”if at first you don’t succeed….try, try again”. And boy was it being used when I hooked the third building. Now that it’s finished, I can see that I had several...
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Hooking a Pathway
With the background village completed, (well I’ll likely still make some adjustments), I turned my attention to the ground and how I would hook it. My first thought was that I wanted it to be round...
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The Flag Stone Struggle
Oh my! Three months to the day since my last post, and those flagstones are finally nearing completion, and yes, they have been a struggle…..Both the hooking of them, and figuring out how to make them...
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Hooking a Dip Dyed Sky
Hooking the sky for the Virgins piece has been quite a learning experience with lots of little problems to solve to make it work. First of all, the test pieces I dyed were of course WAY too narrow. To...
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Applying Crewel Embroidery over Hooking
To take some of the starkness away from all the stone work in the arch and flagstones, I decided to add some flowers on top of the finished hooking. As I mentioned in the last post, I had done this...
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