Monday, February 9, 2009

Emma's Garden


Here's a new design I hooked up for a workshop I'm teaching later this week in Mississippi. I named it "Emma's Garden", in honor of my lamb Emma (of course!). I hooked it up to be a sampler of various techniques and materials. The leaves all have antique paisley veins, the flower petals are prodded using various lengths and widths of wool strips, the seed part of the flowers have an accent line of beading, the little sheep is hooked with Corriedale roving, and curly sheep locks were worked around the lamb's face. Yes, those are some of Emma's real curls! The lamb's ear is also dimensional...it's a proddy strip that was trimmed in the shape of an ear, pulled up through the backing, then the two pieces were sewn together. Three different textured wools were hooked into the background and I echoed around all of the shapes to give a nice soft movement to the rug. The rich plaid in the border helps bring the colors of the rug out to the edge. I think it has a nice flow all the way around.
But of course, this pattern could be entirely hooked with wool strips without any special embellishments and it would be equally wonderful!

7 comments:

BeFRuiTFuL KReaTioNS said...

Emma's Garden is delightuful. Love this rug.

JoEllen

Kris Miller said...

Thanks JoEllen, your comments mean a lot to me!
Kris

Plumruncreek ♥ said...

I like it also Chris!! Very nice!!

Amanda said...

Wow, that's beautiful, Kris.

Amanda said...

Wow, that's beautiful Kris!

Alice ~ Folk Art Primitives said...

Oh, Kris ~ that's so cute!! Love the addition of the proddy, and the fleece ~ especially Emma's ~ she should be so proud of her 'Mama'!!! Alice

linda spear said...

Kris, Emma is one sweet girl ... love your choice of wools and 3-D techniques ... Emma's Garden is special
Linda