how to create your own hand hooked rugs
Subway art in NYC is similar to rughooking in that many points of color add up to an image. I was in NYC in early June for a Wordpress Wordcamp. Even though I was there to learn more about the …
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It was another wonderful week at the Sauder Village Rug Hooking Workshop. I spent the week with Diane Phillips. I had taken her class before and I looked forward to the week. Some people in the …
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In March, I taught faces at Southern Teachers' Workshop. The difficulty of the assignment was that I only had one day to teach and whose face was I going to hook? I wanted to hook a portrait of my …
This portrait of my imaginary woman is now complete. Notice the lower part of her neck. I think the uneven edge actually gives the neck more dimension. I did do a bit of tweaking once all the …
Above is a picture showing the neck added. The photo on the right is the picture on the left with a transparent version of an earlier face. Note how the chin line is exactly the same as it was …
Notice how different she looks when I add the hair. I kept the forehead shape as it was hooked in the last post. I may decide to soften that later. I removed the one holding line I had hooked in …
