My Little Rug Collection

What a wonderful surprise to be so welcomed to the blogging community.  As promised, I'll post some of my finished projects.  I started with rug hooking kits and now I'm moving to using more of my own wool stash. 

This was my first "rug" which I made into a pillow.  It looks so bright in this photo, but the colors are richer in person.  I love penny rugs and would like to tackle one in applique as well.

My Santa, also a Sharon Perry kit came next.  This hooked up fast and was easy and fun to do.

This was a great schooner pattern that I found in Rug Hooking Magazine.  I hooked this before I discovered dyeing.  The original sky in the magazine was made of lovely shades of grayed blues.  I tried that with blues that weren't in the same color family but it didn't work.  So, I ripped out the entire sky and went with a gray plaid.  It looks stormy...but I am still tempted to rip again, dye wool, and do the whole thing over.

My little stool is a Karen Kahle pattern from Rug Hooking Magazine.  Hers was done in those wonderful antique muted shades and I loved it.  I went with all the little worms I had and mine is darker by far.  I do like it though.

I'll post some yarn photos later. 
Have a great MLK day!
Courtney