Wild and Beautiful Lynda Kinnard

My Wild and Beautiful Frog. Thought of wild animals and the wonderful colours they can be. Remembered going into the caves on Lanzarote when my parents lived there, and seeing the fluorescent, brightly coloured frogs who live in perpetual darkness. I have taken a little poetic licence and exaggerated their bright colours. I used the fine hooking technique on Hessian, using all recycled machine-knitted fabrics.

Wild and Beautiful Jenny Johns

The inspiration for this piece came from watching dolphins play around our boat when whale watching in New Zealand.I used a variety of materials on hessian, old bath puffs, satins,wool etc. Great fun hooking through and over the net for the sea spray. I used proddie and hookie method ,pulling T shirt into tubes for the waves.

The piece is 11x8 approx and I kept the shape irregular to follow the wild theme.

Wild and Beautiful Jennifer Rowles

This is my work for the wild and beautiful project. Last summer we visited Averbury and were lucky enough to walk around a crop circle there. This experience became my inspiration for the project. 
The design is of a crop circle made at a village called Sompting on the 25th of July 1990. I have used sari wool to outline the crop circle and the inner field as I hope it represents the energy which is so apparent when you have the good fortune to be able to walk a circle.

Tune into colour Debbie Marias

This  is a photo from my step-daughters wedding.  She has asked me to do a rug to commemorate the day.   I have used the paint charts to try and match the colours.  I have been gradually doing the colour pages but still find it difficult sometimes to match the exact shade of a colour as there are so many to choose from.  These are three different attempts focussing on different areas of the photo each time.  I know her favourite colour combinations are the ones shown in the main bouquet (colour sample one) the flower girls dress in the bottom LH corner of the photo (colour sample two).  The last is just a random selection of slightly different shades within the photo.  Next I am going to make up some samples of rugging to show her in April before I begin the main rug.  The aim is to finish it by their first anniversary at the end of July.  No mean feat alongside full time work and two children!! 

Wild and Beautiful Janet Hull

I started my rug with the dragonfly and lily, everything else evolved
around it. I dyed most of my wool which is blanket...I also used some textured and  sparkly threads in the dragonfly. It was done on an 8 cut. To finish off I have bound the edges with carpet wool and used tape to make a nice firm edge. It measures 12x12 inches.

Wild and Beautiful Wendy Lindsay

This rug measures 14 x 8 inches and was hooked on hessian. I used dyed wool flannel and skirt, along with some wool yarn for the dry sand and the white waves. It has been a while since I have actually sat down and hooked anything so I really enjoyed the whole process, including dying the wool for the sky. I think having a set time in which to finish the project was very good for me too – it really made me get on with it!

For me Wild and Beautiful is Sandwood Bay in Sutherland, on the far north-west coast of mainland Scotland. It is best known for its mile-long beach and Am Buachaille, a sea stack, and lies about 5 miles south of Cape Wrath. 

Wild and Beautiful Mary Jane Peabody

 

This is my "Wild and Beautiful" mat, 8.5" x 12" in size, and just made with cut wool that I had around. I was inspired by an antique folk art painting from the 1860s of a stately-looking cat on a rug.
I decided to add the "wild" by the colors I chose. Purples, greens and blues for the cat, and reds, oranges and yellows for the mat. Then I got stuck with what to use for the sky background, until I remembered one piece of wool I had dyed about three years ago.
I had collected about two cups worth of my "trimmings", the little bits you clip when starting or ending a strip of wool. I had soaked a piece of white wool, and then dumped all the little trimmed bits all over it, rolled it up, tied rubber bands around each end to keep it in a roll, and threw it into the dye pot for a while. It came out with a nice confetti sort of look:

So I found that piece of wool, and it worked out quite nicely for a "wild" sort of sky. Here is my finished piece (though it is not hemmed yet It was fun to make a small enough project to feel free to just fool around with color like this!

 

Tune into Colour Mary Jane Peabody

I started with a postcard from Rome, and then just picked snippets of all the colors I thought I would want to use if I were hooking it!