January 2025 - Mystery of the Close Knit Neighbours


The Mystery of the Close Knit Neighbours

PLEASE NOTE:

Hi Everyone, 

Hello, and welcome to the 2025 Mystery Art Project: Salon Style!

If you’ve been a part of the Mystery Art Project before, it’s so wonderful to see you again! If this is your first Mystery Art Project, I’d like to extend a special warm greeting your way.

I have a couple of “housekeeping” items I want to tell you about before the fun begins. First of all, you’ll be charged one month in advance for this subscription. So when you signed up in December, that charge was for January’s kit, and the charge that went through during the first week of January is for February’s kit, and so on until the final charge in November for December’s kit. Secondly, some people have been asking about frames for these rugs, and we are working on making available a full set of frames for this year’s salon style collage, so you can display your gorgeous finished products. Stay tuned for more details on that front! Finally, the patterns will be sent out around the 15th of each month. If you’re getting a physical kit you’ll get an email with a tracking number, and if you’re on the digital pattern subscription, you’ll get a link to the pattern in your email.

One more thing I’d like to ask: if you could wait a few weeks before posting your finished rug online (like in our Wild With Wool facebook group, for example)  to https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildwithwool/ that would be great. Some shipments take longer for people to receive them.

We will be posting a video here each month. The video will act as your colour key, instructions and lessons for your Mystery Project Kit.

Remember that the wools we send you might not be exactly the same as I have used. We do our best to get them really close. Also your pattern might look different then mine when I start out. That is ok as I often adjust the pattern as I go along.

Also, don't worry if I use a colour and you do not have it. Sometimes I hook a colour in and take it out.

Remember this is your rug. You can adjust the pattern as much as you like. You can change the colours a bit. Add them from your stash and make them your own. 

Mystery Art January / Introduction and Lesson



List of Materials Used

Moon:

Faded Pebble 3 Ply
Coral Superwash Merino

Tree:

Briggs & Little Dark Grey 2 Ply
Briggs & Little Dark Grey 4 Ply

House #1:

Briggs & Little Harvest Gold
Natural Wool Cloth

House #2:

Briggs & Little Evening Shadow
Rosy Red Wool Cloth

House #3:

Briggs & Little Gold Bloom
Briggs & Little Mountain Green

Sky:

Windowpane Blue
Lavender Fields
Big Softie Wallace Bay
SD Cobalt
Briggs & Little Nova Sky

Windows:

Waves-Space
Briggs & Little Plum

Grass:

Malabrigo Chunky Olive
Briggs & Little Dark Green 4ply
Briggs & Little Island Green
Curly Locks Green