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Birch Bark Wool

This bark is wonderful for rug hooking birch trees. I’ve also seen students use it for an old picket fence and for a cat. Use your imagination. I used this wool cut with the stripes to hook the...

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Sky Rug Hooking Wool

This 1/8 yard of hand dyed dipped wool.  I triple dip this wool and cook it extra long to preserve this precious blue color for as long as possible.  Cut this wool horizontally and hook it into zones...

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How to *not* rug hook evenly

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...

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Hooking a birch tree – let the wool do the work

This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Jasmine's Butterfly Garden I used my specially dyed birch bark wool to hook the birch tree. Just simple hooking here. I cut the darker part of the wool in a #5,...

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How to hook tree leaves: Birch Tree

Notice how the leaves are in front of and behind the trunk and branches Hooking the leaves on any tree is more about observation than it is about hooking. Really spend some time, or at least an hour or...

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Hooking a natural sky: Step 1

This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Jasmine's Butterfly GardenThe first pass of sky is hooked in loosely Today I had a few moments to hook, but no brain energy to scour up the next few colors. I...

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Dyeing sunset or sunrise sky for rug hooking

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Sunset or sunriseI received a call from Rhonda Smith about dyeing wool for a sunset sky. An image popped in my mind. I asked her to mail me the photo she had in...

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How to rug hook a sunset sky and water using specially dyed wool

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Sunset or sunriseHow to hook a regular sky I use an easy method with my specially dyed sky wool to hook a normal day time sky. Sky – 1/8 yard $8.00 Add to cart...

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Get help hooking your pictorial hooked rugs – New edition

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 found it...

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