Week 2 of this weird stuffy cold I have. I wouldn't doubt its some Covid variant...stuffy nose...tired as all get out. But that's it. For a cold it's not too bad. But it doesn't leave me much energy to get much done besides work.
That said....I did manage to start a texture sampler. What is that? Oh, I'm so glad you asked! One thing rug hooking and quilting has in common is that with both of them, you take perfectly good fabric, cut them up to form something new. With quilting the visual appearance of the fabric basically doesn't change. (Well unless you are collaging it!) But with rug hooking it can change drastically, especially with textures. Textures are what the rug hooker names most non-solid wools like plaids, houndstooth, ombres etc. Once you cut them up into little strips and then hook them into little loops, they look totally different. Plus, the look may change with the size of the strips.
To get a feel of how a texture will hook up, you can start a sampler. The concept is easy enough. You take pieces of the fabric whole and then hook a sample square next to it. I would have started this long ago but I got all caught up on getting the layout done. Silly me! I mean why? I haphazardly cut some
rectangles and strips and got going. I used a blanket stitch to sew down the whole pieces and hooked in size 4. At least one I did. The next one was so loose it needed to be in a 6 because the 4 would not hold together. That isn't totally uncommon because some textures are too loose to hook in small size strips. For this start, I picked three colors I wanted to audition for the next step in my Santa rug.
This is far as I got. Cool right? I don't think any of three will do but at least I know what they look like hooked up!
Hopefully I get more done this week!
So, What Have You've Been up to Creatively?!
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