With demands from work, newsletter and pony, my mat sat still for a couple of weeks. Going to the hook-in this past weekend spurred me to bring it out of hiding. Here's how it looked after the hook-in (poor photo - sorry!)
As I mentioned on Monday...I was feeling very eager to get this project put to bed, so I decided to shrink the size, from a rug to a mat. The hooking was all complete on Sunday....I pressed it on Monday, and then spend much of last night on the finishing. And here it is...
It's probably about 11-12" by 20-21" or so - I forgot to measure it this morning. It will be a useful table mat/runner. Here is a close-up of some of the +++. I tried to alternate light/medium + with darker + signs...so you can see a bit of a diagonal pattern if you look. And especially if you're legally blind like me and you gaze at it first thing in the morning without any glasses ;-)
I think that it would be fun to try a similar design using different colours in each diagonal row. You'd have to do some careful planning...but it could look really neat. And, it's a great way to use up leftovers...
