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Featured Rug of the Month
August 2011
Crown of Thorns, 36"x22"
Designed and hooked by Judy Taylor
This rug evolved from the Featured Rug of the Month, July, 2011.
Featured Rug, Box 'O Crayons
July 2011
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Box 'O Crayons was designed to use up some yarn samples that I put together for my book, Joy of Hooking (With Yarn!). Once I finished hooking this rug, I had, as you can imagine, a bag of leftovers. Hmmmm...
Overdye!
Rather than make 80 tiny skeins, each needing to be cross-tied, I tied lots of bits together and wrapped them on my niddy-noddy, making 8 big, multi-colored skeins.
I split them into three piles, and threw them into dyepots. One was Mountain Aqua, one was Lime Green and one was Very Hot Pink. The dyes were weak, so I wouldn't obscure the colors, I just wanted to lightly overdye them, so the colors harmonized.
Box 'O Crayons leftovers, wrapped into skeins
The skein at the bottom shows the cross-ties, which prevent the skeins from getting tangled in the dyeing process
Mtn. Aqua Lime Green Very Hot Pink
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And this is the result:
All the same yarn, but transformed to a softer, more muted color scheme. Fun!
But wait--- there's more! Check out next month's Featured Rug to see what I did with the leftovers from the Crown rug!!!
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