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| Major reverse hooking in the crow and lollipop bush areas to calm the rug down as of 2-17-12. |
Reverse hooking, what a funny name for re-work! By the time I'm done with this rug, I will have hooked parts of it 3 - 4 times.
I have reverse hooked the background around the lollipop bush 3 times because I was not entirely happy with it. The third time is a charm, and now I like the background. I find using light wools the most challenging of all combinations for a background.
I have rehooked much of the rug in a "less is better" approach, scaling back on miscellaneous lines all over the place, even though that's Magdalena's style.
Now I am enjoying this rug, and I better like this rug, because it is HUGE! Here are more pictures of the progress I made through this past weekend.
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| More hooking as of 2-19-12. I took the vase wool out; I didn't like it. |
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| Lulu likes the left dog; as soon as I put the rug on the floor to look at it, she and Maggie sit on one of the dogs. |
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| Upper right leaf as originally hooked. |
I hooked the leaf above, then decided it was not "Magdalena" enough, after consulting my book with photos of Magdalena's original rugs. So I rehooked it as pictured below. I like the revised leaf better.
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| As rehooked, the leaf has more lines of colors. |