Where rug hooking wool meets imagination
Today I had a few moments to hook, but no brain energy to scour up the next few colors. I decided to get some of the sky hooked. The method I am using is described in my book, Pine Trees, Grass and Sky.Hooking in the sky loosely helps to make the project move faster and [...]
Hooking the leaves on any tree is more about observation than it is about hooking. Really spend some time, or at least an hour or so, looking at trees. This hour will save you hours of hooking frustration. Hooking the leaves on a tree is all about finding the shape that will give your tree [...]
I used my specially dyed birch bark wool to hook the birch tree. Just simple hooking here. I cut the darker part of the wool in a #5, the lighter in #7 and simply hooked it. I did change the shape a bit. I used to have a birch tree in our backyard. It was [...]
The text of the series on footstool construction has been posted, but images for the last post and all the videos are still in progress. I will be offering for download a PDF with all the steps in one place once all the instructions are finalized.
Please note that the current instructions will probably change a bit as I work through this process.
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