Where rug hooking wool meets imagination
Gave Jack a bath today to help him with the bug bites from West Virginia. His markings have changed quite a bit. He is loosing some of the white around his muzzle and his chest is very different. Up to the last month or two it was pure white. Now he looks like he has [...]
I wish I had gotten this as a movie, but it happened so fast, I only got this shot because the camera was in my hand. I’ve been dying wool all month and started in on anther new bolt. I decided to rip the selvedge off as I went so that I had a long [...]
I use my hand hooked rugs as rugs. It is remarkable how well they hold up. Wool is one of the very best fibers for rugs. It does not accumulate dirt and because I hook on rug warp, my rugs can take what my animals dish out. Watch the movie below to see what I [...]
I’ve been home a little over a week and I am back at the rug hooking frame. I am concentrating on hooking the center of the rug. As soon as I have it completed, I will check for holidays. What this means is that I examine the back of the rug and look for large [...]
If we have talked about rug camps before, you have heard me say that my favorite rug camp is Rugs by the Sea in Cape May, NJ. I arrived with no idea what I was going to hook. I had a project I had started on my own earlier and blank rug warp. I taught [...]
We went to family reunion in West Virginia. We needed ice so we went to Wal-Mart. In the parking lot was a sign, “Free Puppies.” Enough said. Jackson is part boxer and part so something else. We are still trying to figure that out, but he has been very trainable so far. He meets the [...]
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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