The big rug hooking question: Should I outline or not?

Sally-Freund

It is easy to get overwhelmed with the decisions you need to make for rug hooking if you do not have the guidance of a teacher. Especially for children’s rugs, consider outlining everything in a nice dark wool, preferably a texture. Then you just have to fill in the blanks. Sally used this approach for [...]

How to *not* rug hook evenly

I found this video by Jane Halliwell Green and knew I had to share it. Beautiful even loops are not an advantage when hooking landscapes or pictorials or anything else found in nature. The straight even lines that perfect loops create are distracting and do not look natural. I’ve been teaching a method where you [...]