Wild and Beautiful Heather Woodward

Size 9" worked on monks cloth. Second piece worked on monks cloth.

Punch hooked with hand dyed yarn and needle felted edge with hand dyed sheep fleece.
Inspired by the interest I have in the Green Man I have used his face in other peices of art.

A Splash of Colour Debbie Mairas

Here is my Hundertwasser - again using my 13" by 18" frame. hooked onto hessian using T-shirts and all sorts of patterned cotton fabrics and some sparkly ones. I have decided for my Hundertwasser samples to use different backing material samples and to use some different techniques that I learnt from an experimental workshop with Lynne Stein - watch this space!

Wild and Beautiful Debbie Marais

 Snowdrop
It is hooked from all sorts of fabric, mainly old t-shirts onto hessian. I haven't finished the edging yet as I want to do something different to what I normally do which is an overwrap stitch using fabric. The image is 13" by 18". I did try to do it smaller but I really wanted a more voluptuous snowdrop so it got bigger! I have always loved snowdrops and that was the first thing that popped into mine when i saw the brief in January. I just drew the design onto the hessian and then redrew it when I wanted it to be bigger.
One of the reasons that this is so late is that I had by some bizarre coincidence been working on a piece inspired by Hundertwasser. I will finish it and do some more samples by the end of June otherwise I will have nothing to do!! Looking forward to meeting people at the workshop in July.

Wild and Beautiful Linda Bishop

 This is for the January assignment to hook with different materials with a theme of "Wild and Beautiful."  I used a ball of thick and thin yarn for which I had not yet found a purpose.  The colors aren't very exciting but I decided it would make a nice sunset/mountain/desert hooked mat.  [My husband wants this for his office - probably a resting place for his coffee mug.  I guess these colors would conceal a coffee splash!]  The colors also remind us both of the West Texas high plains, where sunsets can be magnificent and the terrain quite harsh.I drew a few curved lines on the backing and started hooking.  The yarn was easy to hook - it was fluffier than it looked.  I had to roll out the yarn in color-phases so that I could get to the colors I wanted. I used what I think is a linen background which was easy to work with except the fibers split sometimes.  The yarn is 100% wool.  I whip-stitched around the edge of the piece with needlepoint yarn and I plan to sew a backing of wool plaid fabric.  The resulting mat is about 6" X 9".

Samples Mary Jane Peabody

 So I was able to put this exercise to use right away, to solve the problem of how to hook a tiny little rug for a dollhouse, a project I had been meaning to do for my friend for some time

 The next one I tried was a piece of rather loosely woven tweedy wool, and that worked pretty well, both for hooking and proddy

This was a piece of polartec fleece and it was just terrible to work on. I had to basically cut a hole with a seam-ripper tool to get my hook in and pull each loop through. So that quickly went into the "never again" category