CURVES AND SPIRALS

I'm taking a break for several days from the tarot rug project (only five rugs left to show!) and getting back to other things that I have put on hold.  Things will likely be quiet here for awhile, and then I'll get back and finish the tarot rug posts.

I mentioned I had accidentally started a new punch-hooked rug, "Moon and Clouds," a couple of weeks ago (I just couldn't resist a few "experiments" with punching, and it turned into an actual start).  But realistically, I've had to set it aside while I find time to finish color planning it.  Once I complete that, I will need to dye the rest of the yarn.  Until that's done, it needs to wait.  I'm feeling impatient!  Sigh. 

The Moon and Clouds rug has lots of curvy motifs. 

I notice that curves and spirals are taking up room in my brain right now, as you can see in my latest design:

START OF NEXT TRADITIONALLY-HOOKED RUG. BLACK AND RED WOOLS.

This is one corner of the design for my next traditionally hooked rug.  Spirals.  Curves & spirals...or in this case, it will likely be straight lines and spirals.  I'm using an 8-cut on linen, and my plan is to buy no new wool for this rug at all.  I should have enough already on hand to  make it from the leftovers of previous rugs.  The plan is to make a "scrappy rug" using only my red and black scraps, but who knows how it will evolve.

So I have 2 rugs underway at this moment.  Alas, one of them is temporarily on "pause"; it'll be 2-3 weeks before I can get back to the dyepots, so Moon and Clouds will be waiting quite a while.

In the meantime I am also trying to get back to my tangling.  The other day I posted the tangle on the left below, but that same night I produced the one on the right, a variation.  I like that one too, and I like them together.

MOLLYGON TANGLE (on the left, shown previously on this blog; on the right a new variation using graphite only, no color.)

More curves and spirals there.  After all...

"When life gives you curves, flaunt them."
Anon.