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| Saundra Slagle |
Posted - Feb 03 2006 : 10:08:01 AM
I taught myself to rug hook by looking at the picturs in an issue of Rug Hooking Magazine and a Kindred Spirits booklet. Also when I purchased my first rug hook the woman showed me how I would pull loops up from the top. This is not latch hook with the cut pieces of yarn, but rather woven wool cut into strips.
Later, after practicing on smallish projects, I was ready to go to a rug camp to unlearn my bad habits and learn how it was really supposed to be done.
In the beginning my wool purchases were made at the thrift store where I would buy 100% wool clothing and come home and wash the clothing in the washer. Yup, ya sure do. You wanna get all those potential critters out of the wool (moth larvae) plus you want the wool to full up a bit for great hooking. Later I began to do my own dyeing to get colors unable to find in clothing.
I prefer wide cut hooking, #8 cut (1/4" wide), in a primitive style much like our farmgirl foremothers would have hooked. I've loads of rugs that I hooked and will tease you with one that was done from an antique rug. The background for this rug was dyed using onion skins. Again, much like our farmgirl foremothers would have done.
Oh dear, I don't know how to get the image from my CD to this message. I see the icon at the top, but don't know how to get it in here. Sorry. If any of you want to see the rug, please feel free to e-mail me personally at saundra@dmv.com and I'll send you the picture.
Saundra
Saundra from slower, lower Delaware |
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| shepherdess |
Posted - Feb 03 2006 : 10:38:04 PM
Hello
I have done traditional rug hooking off and on for about 10 years . I love it. I started going to a group once a month but it kind of fell apart. I wish I had a group around me again because I got alot more done when I hooked with my friends.
I attended a rug hooking camp in Oregon one year and it was great. I took a class from a teacher from Nova Scotia and did a Celtic design. She taught so much history with the class. It was unbelievable.She was awonderful teacher.
I was taught by a group of very traditional hookers and I have noticed the gals that are rug hooking now are hooking much looser that what I was taught.
I have a rug started, Sunflowers and a crow. I haven't worked om it for quite sometime and i am anxious to get back to it.
Farm Girl from Western Washington
" From sheep to handspun " |
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