#12 - 161. Latch Hook Skull
What drew me to this one, is a memory. My aunt (now deceased) taught me how to do latch hook when I was a young girl. I still have a partially done rose project that she gave me. This makes me want to finish it and add it to the collection of finished ones. For this skull piece, I like that Noah took an existing kit, rearranged the colors and pattern, so he could make this. I like the use of monotone colors for the shading and highlights. The colors remind me of coffee, tea, tobacco, orange juice, spices, tar and dirt that might be ground into a well used rug. I wonder if you could dye yarn with such substances.
I understand that he did this in one day, which I know from experience is really rough on your hands. Especially the knuckles which can drag across the rough canvas as you latch hook the yarn. I know that the process of latch hooking is time consuming and rather precise, so I commend him for doing such a detailed project using latch hook.
**Flashback Friday was a weekly countdown of the fan selected top 52 skulls of Skull-A-Day 1.o. Each week during year 3.0 The Skullmaster posted the original skull along with some additional commentary in order from lowest to highest rated, with the #1 skull appearing in the last week of year 3.0, all 52 can be found here.
3 comments:
Thanks for appreciating how hard that was to make in one day! I had no idea what I was getting into when I started it.
I've torn up my knuckles many times doing latch hook rugs. I think through out this project we all have had those "What the heck was I thinking when I chose this!" moments.
Ha, indeed!
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