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 is …
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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
Antique Rose Runner hooked by Cindi Gay, design by Karen Kahle 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 …
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