So maybe I misspoke last week when I told you I wouldn't have time for rug hooking until after the new year. I hardly put the hook and hoop away. I really just meant to experiment a little bit - wondering how it would feel and what it would look like if I gave it a go with yarn instead of the wool strips I had been using. I cut a piece of burlap, drew a design on it, promptly set about to ignoring that design, and free ranged this little thing. Besides the blue background yarn, the rest of it is my earliest of handspun yarn - thick and thin in places and very irregular. If I enjoyed hooking with wool strips (which I did), I am absolutely in love with hooking with wool yarn. My little experiment quickly became the only project I wanted to work on, and by the end, I was so wishing I could supersize the whole thing into a rug. Another wall hanging, I do not need. A rug I definitely do. But a pillow? Sure! Fresh ones are always welcome. I backed the piece with linen to make the cover, then made a quick inside pillow stuffed with raw fleece. I like it (and so does Piper the cat).
Some proper linen backing has just been ordered, more of each of these yarns is all queued up, and I'm spying floor frames. I'm ready to make something bigger of it all. This time, with yarn. My yarn! Oh, this is fun....
