Tonight I’m a hooker!

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Rug hooking. That’s what you thought right?

We had to come to St. John’s because I had an appointment. That has allowed us to spend some time with our granddaughter, which is awesome. We also did the Costco thing and some maintenance stuff on the house. But now I have some down time, and I didn’t bring my sewing machine, so tonight I hook.

The pattern is one I bought years ago, and unfortunately I can’t remember the name or the designer. I was first introduced to rug hooking about 15 years ago using T-shirt material, but I really didn’t enjoy it. Last winter a friend encouraged me to take another short course, this time using wool, and I was hooked!

Baby Rachel got a rug.
Then I stopped again in favour of sewing. But there is a biweekly hook-in afternoon in Eastport that I wanted to join, so I dug out the burlap pattern I had started with T-shirt’s, pulled out what I had hooked, and took out my Briggs and Little wool again.

It’s very relaxing. If you want to see more, google Deanne Fitzpatrick, a rug hooking guru out of Nova Scotia. Happy Hooking! Cheers!


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  1. JMH NFLD24 October 2018 at 19:49

    The baby rug is SOOO adorable. I went in to a rug hooking exhibit at The Rooms (some of them were historic, all were fabulous) and they had a piece of burlap set up with some hooks and wool. Neither Jim nor I could figure out how it worked, lol.
    Janet

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    1. Denise Piercey24 October 2018 at 19:56

      It’s really quite simple. You run a piece of wool (or wool fabric) under the back of the burlap and then use a small hook, which you can see in my bottom photo, to hook a loop of wool up through the burlap. Visit me and I’ll give you a demonstration!

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