Where rug hooking wool meets imagination
How often have you thought “I should quit my job and go live on a tropical island?” My son, Bob, is doing exactly that. His long term relationship with his girlfriend has ended and NYC is killing him. He has given notice and will be leaving CBS at the end of January. He needed some Read more . . .
Once you begin hooking on your pattern, order the feet for the footstool so you will have them when your hooking is complete. You can find many sources on the internet. A few are listed below. These feet are 4″ in diameter and 6″ tall which will give you a final footstool height of approximately Read more . . .
Construction material list for building your own footstool. A rug hooked footstool can be the jewel in any room. Making one is simpler than you may think. Finish it off yourself using the instructions or take it to an upholster. This material list will get you started
If you get charged sales tax or shipping on a gift certificate. I will REFUND it. There is an error in the programming that I have not been able to figure out. Stuck on what to get your best friend who loves rug hooking for Christmas? Why not let her choose? A gift certificate is Read more . . .
Special thanks to Joan Bollaert of Moline, IL: Is it possible to have a pattern that looks like this (Rose Scroll Square Footstool) without the “scroll” surrounding the flower? I love the way this looks with the simple square look and lighter color wool making a little stripe type ridge around the square. This footstool Read more . . .
The name of the new footstool is Rose Scroll suggested by Joyce Fike. I loved several others, but this name was simple and described the pattern perfectly. Thank you to everyone who commented. Some of your names have actually generated some ideas for other designs, so I may still use them. I would hook this Read more . . .
It’s that time of the year and my focus turns to the website. I’ve made a lot of behind the scene changes with more to come, but today I changed some of what you can see. It is meant to last only for the month of December. I did not spend much time choosing colors Read more . . .
Nancy Weaver sent me this photo of her completed hooking for Annie’s Flower Power Footstool – Square. She started this stool in September of 2011 at the Rugs by the Sea Rug Camp in Cape May, NJ. This is the first one that I’ve seen finished with a gold background. It really makes the motifs Read more . . .
I saw these stainless steel pots the other day at Wal-mart. They are not very large but if you are dyeing for just yourself and usually dying 1/2 yards, they are plenty big. Add a yard of wool, a starter set of dyes (code: SLINT) from ProChem Dyes, and my dye book, “Dyeing by the Read more . . .
This is as far as I will go with this piece. I am leaving the sky unhooked on purpose because I think it will make a better teaching piece. Sometimes it is easier to duplicate a technique when you can clearly see all the steps. I posted this picture large. Click on it to enlarge Read more . . .