Work in Progress
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Small Cat Cushion Cover Summer/Autumn 2020 Sketches, collage and first steps in hooking. Back and front views. |
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(Left) Very early stages using cut T-shirt, knitting and tapestry wool.
Front view features look a total mess until all the space is filled in with fabric. (Right) Cat face nearly completed. Hooked and sheared. My cat is looking much grumpier than I intended. I'll have to see if I can modify that a bit! |
Front view
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Back view
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Small Runner Rug - Spring 2020
This small runner rug for our smallest (very narrow) bedroom was a project started some years ago and then abandoned. It's loosley based on the print of one of Wassily Kandinsky's Circles paintings which hangs on the bedroom wall. This isn't my usual sort of hooked rug - this one is made using a latch hook, with pieces of T-shirt fabric all cut to the same length and hooked onto rug canvas - the sort of canvas my aunty used to love hooking. The canvas she used would come as a complete kit with a printed design and pre-cut lengths of wool, and made small rectangular rugs or semi circular hearth rugs.
Now we're in lockdown and I'm looking for another project, it seemed a good time to resume work on it!
Now we're in lockdown and I'm looking for another project, it seemed a good time to resume work on it!
By Wassily Kandinsky
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Latch Hook with wooden grooved block for cutting fabric (or wool) to size.
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This latch hook version doesn't really work - the design needs to be more defined, so am restarting and reverting to hooking it.
Abstract Shapes (for cushion cover?)
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Collage and oil pastel sketch for a new project using T-shirt material (October 2019)
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I'm not sure if this is going to be a small wall-hanging or a cushion cover, but it's progressing slowly! The colours have changed a bit - the yellows have started out paler and the orange side progressed to dark oranges and red. |
Front view
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Back view
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After a few changes - removing the pinky shapes on the right and some alterations to make the background colour changes more gradual - it's finally finished!
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Leaves and Pods Cushion Cover
Front view
Back view
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I was a bit stuck on the background colour for this piece, then one of our group suggested blue. My first reaction was that this wouldn't work, but then I found a bit of teal-coloured T-shirt in my stash and it does seem to work very well! Some scraps of other colours have been added to the background for contrast.
The stalk colours in the seed pods on the left (front view) have been changed to shades of purple as they were very dark and the colour too similar to the stalks on the green leaf. They'll be much more visible when I shear off the tops of the loops. Only the large leaves and a little of the background has been sheared so far (pix on left), so most of the loops are still visible.
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