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Lessons, tips and tricks about traditional rug hooking.
I recently finished a footstool for a friend. It gave me a chance to look at alternate ways to do the finishing. I did all the work during my Thursday Live! Hook-ins. You can join me every Thursday …
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Are you struggling while rug hooking pictorial rugs? This book can help. Some of you picked up the book when it was available for the first time at Sauder Village in August 2015. Many of you …
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test June 2016 update: I cannot get the calculator embedded into the website. Click this link to visit it in another page. If it ever stops working again, please let me know. In case you are …
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Ready for some rug hooking rules? Just one: Do what you think is right. It really is just that simple. This is an art form. Does the painter get criticized about how the brush is held? Do people turn …
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Choosing the right wool is all about choosing the right value. Color is important, but value is what makes it work. Look at these wools I pulled off the shelf to hook a pine tree. Will they work? The …
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How to hook a regular sky I use an easy method with my specially dyed sky wool to hook a normal day time sky. The method is described in detail in Pine Trees, Grass and Sky. This method does not …
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