2007

16" x 20"

This rug was inspired by a picture in a "How to Paint Book", the name of which I forget. 

It shows geraniums in a corner of a window box. It was done with recycled wool #6 cut. I gave it to my sister Linda, and it hangs in the family room of her cottage at Sixteen Island Lake. She says it is her favourite. 

Original

2009

3 ft x 6 ft

I chose the predominant paisley motif to create a modern rug with a symmetric field, skipping the border and its ornamentations. I used non-directional hooking (or higgledy-piggledy), with a three-colour palette for the background, instead of the traditional monochromatic straight lines. I used #5 and #6 cuts of recycled wool.

Designer unknown

2006

22” x 40”

I got this floral pattern from Kay Cousineau. I hooked the background in a higgledy piggledy fashion  using darker values of reds to both harmonize with and to highlight the soft pastel primary colours used to hook the flowers. I chose a #6 cut.