I have become a hooker - all in the name of making artwork for my next CD. OK, full disclosure: a rug-hooker. (See, those are the kind of jokes we rug-hookers make… pretty hilarious, right?)
The story is this: I had been trying to come up with an idea for the CD cover to go along with my penchant for making hand-made artwork, when I had a bathroom epiphany. Yes, you read correctly. During a pee-break while mastering the album at Ryebread Mastering (too much information?), I looked up from where I was sitting to see a wonderfully detailed rug-hooking of a countryside scene, and my heart leapt with joy! THAT was what I would do for my artwork. I would choose an image and make my own rug-hooking pattern for it. Easy as pie, right?
Little did I know what I was getting myself into. It took about a month of searching for an image that would work well, doing tests with different wool and sizes of canvas, researching ways to pixelate photos, sourcing materials and at the last minute, the lucky break of coming across a website that creates a rug-hooking pattern for you (www.leftsource.com).
Then, the wait for the materials to come… But at long last my box of wool and canvas arrived! And I was ready. Ready to start making a 2’ x 2’ fuzzy painting. Ready to hook 14,400 little knots with 2½” pieces of yarn. Ready to take photos every hour to create a time-lapse video. Ready. To be continued...
the FIRST stitch!!
The story is this: I had been trying to come up with an idea for the CD cover to go along with my penchant for making hand-made artwork, when I had a bathroom epiphany. Yes, you read correctly. During a pee-break while mastering the album at Ryebread Mastering (too much information?), I looked up from where I was sitting to see a wonderfully detailed rug-hooking of a countryside scene, and my heart leapt with joy! THAT was what I would do for my artwork. I would choose an image and make my own rug-hooking pattern for it. Easy as pie, right?
Little did I know what I was getting myself into. It took about a month of searching for an image that would work well, doing tests with different wool and sizes of canvas, researching ways to pixelate photos, sourcing materials and at the last minute, the lucky break of coming across a website that creates a rug-hooking pattern for you (www.leftsource.com).
Then, the wait for the materials to come… But at long last my box of wool and canvas arrived! And I was ready. Ready to start making a 2’ x 2’ fuzzy painting. Ready to hook 14,400 little knots with 2½” pieces of yarn. Ready to take photos every hour to create a time-lapse video. Ready. To be continued...
the FIRST stitch!!