I found this video by Jane Halliwell Green and knew I had to share it. Beautiful even loops are not an advantage when hooking landscapes or pictorials or anything else found in nature. The straight …
Hooked Rug Gallery: Beginner Square
This is the project that I encourage all beginners to start with for many reasons: All straight lines, no curves Small enough to finish in a short time, often less than a …
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How Important is Hooking Technique?
Kelly, a past student, had an email question about hooking techniques. I will explain more over the next couple of posts. First, I view hooking technique as a way to make hooking easier on your …
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Rug Hooking an Interesting Background
There are many ways to hook a background. Here is the way I chose to hook the background on Woman with Baby. I wanted the background to remind the viewer of foilage. Image that the woman …
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My favorite backing: rug warp
Sheri's question: Hi Cindi, what's the difference in rug warp and say primitive linen. That's what I usually hook on but it's so darned expensive. I use an 8, 8.5 and 9 cut. I am also experimenting …
How to hook crooked rows not straight ones
My focus for the last two years has been to "get crooked." I thought I had made a breakthrough with Karen Kahle at Sauder Village in 2006. I was working on her Antique Rose Runner during the lunch …
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