My latest rug project. Dove (Chloe) Cameron.
I selected this image, a recent photo of Chloe, to be the inspiration for my latest rug project.
I then reduced the image until it was 120 pixels across. At this point, I assign a colour to each pixel and blow it up to create a graph I can work from. This image, 120 pixels wide and 150 pixels tall, was printed out on 12 sheets of paper
I digitize and plot my own graph. You can see the page I'm working on under the corner of the briefcase. This rug took 12 sheets to graph out. Each sheet is 40x40 stitches or knots. The blue squares on the canvas are 10x10, so each completed square has 100 pieces of yarn knotted into it. This rug will be 120 wide by 150 long. (12x15 of the blue squares). Most of my portrait rugs are 120 wide because that gives me a pixel/knot count that yields a decent image. The bigger the rug, the more detail I can do, but I'm happy with 120 pixels across.
