Description:
Sally is known for her use of warm textures and richly colored hand-dyed wool to create an antique look in her hooked rugs. Many of her designs are filled with whimsical and primitive farm animals. In this workshop, Sally will share the tips and techniques she has mastered over the years, to help you create a primitive animal mat with an antique look.
Students will be working with a wide cut #8.5 and hand-cut strips on Sally’s 10.5" x 12.5" pattern called Primitive Kitty. She will bring a wonderful assortment of luscious textured woolens to use in your project.
Sally believes that classes should be fun as well as informative. Some of the topics she will cover in this workshop are:
-Choosing the right value and texture of wool for animals.
- How textures can add to the primitive or realistic look of animals.
- How widths of strips and direction of hooking help create shape and volume of an animal.
- Many tips and techniques to make your animal rugs come to life.
- Hooking more realistic animals with guidelines for hooking an animal from the eyes to the toes.
- Different styles of hooking animal rugs.
- Tips on how to make a portrait rug of your pet.
- Techniques for background treatments.
She will bring a collection of her own rugs that feature animals - which will be both inspiring and informative.
Your finished mat is the perfect size to make into a pillow.