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BobM

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My wife is a quilter (for over 30 years), a quilt teacher (for the last 3), a rug hooker (for about 3 years), a beader (recent), basically all things crafty (all her life). She started rug hooking about 3 years ago and, in her typical fashion, decided to go big right away. She designed a pattern to fit into our kitchen decor with her rug teacher and completed it in about a 6-9 month period. It's about 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide, to give you some idea.

It came out pretty cool. All her associated rug hookers told her to enter it into an international rug hooking magazine, so we had some photo's taken and submitted it. Damn, her rug was selected to be in the annual "best of 2013" edition.

Now, we just found out that she won 2nd place for their readers choice awards, where the readers of the magazine submit their votes for what they liked best among all the winners in the annual contest. Unfortunately they never contacted her for her in-depth commentary (bad phone # or e-mail?) but here's a link to the article.

Celebration XXIII Readers' Choice Winners | Rug Hooking Magazine

Holy crap! I'm so proud.

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BobM said:
My wife is a quilter (for over 30 years), a quilt teacher (for the last 3), a rug hooker (for about 3 years), a beader (recent), basically all things crafty (all her life). She started rug hooking about 3 years ago and, in her typical fashion, decided to go big right away. She designed a pattern to fit into our kitchen decor with her rug teacher and completed it in about a 6-9 month period. It's about 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide, to give you some idea.

It came out pretty cool. All her associated rug hookers told her to enter it into an international rug hooking magazine, so we had some photo's taken and submitted it. Damn, her rug was selected to be in the annual "best of 2013" edition.

Now, we just found out that she won 2nd place for their readers choice awards, where the readers of the magazine submit their votes for what they liked best among all the winners in the annual contest. Unfortunately they never contacted her for her in-depth commentary (bad phone # or e-mail?) but here's a link to the article.

Celebration XXIII Readers' Choice Winners | Rug Hooking Magazine

Holy crap! I'm so proud.

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Congrats! Way cool! :)
 
Thanks for the compliments boys.

This style of rug hooking is called McGowan. It uses a much finer/thinner cut of wool, and as a result you can have much better shadings and color transformations than you typically see on hooked rugs using a wider cut. Those look fairly crude in comparison.

Well done McGowan rugs very often closely resemble traditional Chinese cut rugs in their color shadings, dimensional beauty, and finer detail. What really separates one from another is the beautiful subtle shadings.

The first place winner (if you follow the link) is done similarly. Of course, the current rug my wife is working on is in a similar style to that one, but with a black background which truly makes the colors pop.
 
Bob, congrats to your wife. I think this type of skill is really cool & adds to the walls visually as well as acoustically.
 
Congrats, Bob! Very cool! I love all the subtle shadings and blending of colors. Awesome!
 
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