how to create your own hand hooked rugs
This pictorial is a very simple design, but really pulls you in. Joanne hooked the largest birch trees that I know of using my specially dyed rug hooking wool. This rug is 21" x 34". The sky was …
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I love being a part of rugs that mean something to the student. Lois wanted to hook a photo of her mother and uncle taken at the beach. I drew the pattern and dyed the flesh wool. She …
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Nancy Weaver sent me this photo of her completed hooking for Annie's Flower Power Footstool - Square. She started this stool in September of 2011 at the Rugs by the Sea Rug Camp in Cape May, …
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I taught a class at Pat VanArsdale's last fall. Mala wanted a sunset/sunrise background behind the pumpkin and crow. I got busy in the dye pot. One way to dye a sky for a rug like this is to dye it …
Patty invited me to teach a three-day class in her home in October. She lives in Floyds Knob, IN which is across the river from Louisville, KY. It was a great group of rug hookers and I had a great …
Meryl has been one of my students at the Cape May Rug Camp, Rugs by the Sea, for the last 6 years. She has an unusual point of view when it comes to her rug hooking. In this piece, she hooked her …
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