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Most Recent Rug Hooking Lessons
Hook Cat Eyes Realistically
How to rug hook a cat eye is sometimes simpler than hooking the fur. Hook well inside the line to avoid making the eye too large and choose realistic colors. This video is only 1/2 of the full video. If you are a member of The Rug Hooking Journey, visit this page for the full…
How to create your own Texture Sampler
Textured wool (anything that is not solid) can be tricky especially if the repeat is large, but these wools often make the most interesting backgrounds. When I first started teaching in 2000, I was the only teacher with textured wools. My students had not been exposed to them and many did not know what the…
How much wool do I need to hook a rug?
As a general rule of thumb you need four times the wool to cover an area. Calculators are included inside The Rug Hooking Journey* membership inside The Basics course. *The Rug Hooking Journey is a paid membership site offering hundreds of hours of videos created since 2016. In this video I will teach you how…
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How to Rug Hook… The simple steps
Here is an example of one of my Lessons from The Rug Hooking Journey
I’ve been enjoying listening to your webinars on The Journey. I can’t believe how much I didn’t know after 35 years of Rug hooking. Thank you so much.
-P. McCartt
Time needed:Â 15 minutes.
Rug hooking is not difficult. It is very easy to learn, less than 1 minute to pull your first loop, then years to learn the finer points of rug hooking
- After stretching the backing on a hoop or frame, push the hook through the backing.
Put the hook in where it makes sense — do NOT count threads!
- Scoop up the wool from underneath.
Move the hook, not the wool. Wrapping the wool onto the hook will cause twists.
- Pull the wool to the surface and adjust the height of the loop.
Pull it up as high as it is wide.
- Repeat a million times. You are now a rug hooker!
Concentrate on pulling the loops up high enough and spreading them apart. Avoid overcrowding.
Make a rug hooked footstool – 2 ways
Build the stool yourself
This method creates a classic low footstool but it time consuming and expensive.
Cover an IKEA Stool
Less expensive and a great way to prepare for the classic stool. Be sure to buy your stool BEFORE you join the course.
Follow along with other projects
Room Sized Rug: Chalfonte Fantasy
Named for the hotel in Cape May, New Jersey. I spent a lot of time on the Victorian porch. The porch support details inspired the main scroll. FYI: This project is still in progress. I’ve been rug hooking on it since Oct 2007.
Southern Woman
This challenge was rug hooking a face using just three textured wools. I taught this class at Southern Teachers’ Workshop in 2009 and later in the Dayton area. If you have a finished project, I’d love to post it on this series!!
Woman with Baby
After I hooked Southern Woman, I wanted to see which textures would work with darker skin.
The background is just two spot dyes. They are the same color, just two different values.