Today is my 500th post! Thank-you all for reading and commenting on my blog. I appreciate my small but mighty community. 🙂
As a thank-you to my readers I am offering the following giveaway…
- My first kit!!! – a 6″ square poppy rugette design on 18″ x 17″ primitive linen backing with serged edges, and the wool and silk fiber to hook it (value $40 CAD).
The finished design should look something like this, depending how you vary it to suit your tastes!
To win this contest all you need to do is add a comment to this post telling me how you got started in rug hooking and what keeps you hooking.
I got started when I decided I needed something to do after my eldest was born. My sister-in-law suggested we both take rug hooking classes. I took a beginner course from Lucille Roxburgh and fell in love. I love rug hooking because I can create and play with colour and texture. Now your turn! 🙂
Contest closes Saturday, May 24th, at midnight CST. Sunday I will put the names in a hat for hubby to draw a winner. The winner will be announced in Monday morning’s blog post.
I started rug hooking when I inherited my mother-in-law’s rug hooking frame. She made beautiful rugs that I admired. I ordered a kit online (a leaping cat) and hooked my first piece. During this time I met members of the local ATHA group at a local fair. They invited me to join and I’ve been hooking since.
Wow, 500 posts already! Congratulations Jean.
My interest in rug hooking simmered on the back burner for years. While at a quilt show one spring my friend and I bumped into a work colleague who asked us if we did rug hooking. She told us about a weekend Rug Hooking Retreat in Alfred Maine that was just two weeks away. We decided to sign up, thinking that this retreat opportunity might not occur again. Little did we know how many passionate, talented and friendly hookers we would come to know by going on this weekend. Rug hooking world just blossomed from there!
I haven’t actually started rug hooking yet. I have been following your blog trying to figure out if it is a medium I could incorporate into my naturally dyed stitched and beaded pieces. I keep thinking it might have potential especially on larger pieces.
Thank you for sharing your work through the blog . It is interesting to view all your wonderful pieces.
Deb, if you win I can also toss in a beginner’s hook, but you’ll need to buy a frame I’m afraid. Best of luck!
Do the snap style lap quilting frames work? That is what I use for my stitching and beading.
Off topic, have you ever used a tambour hook/needle? The process (as much as I can tell from the internet) looks like it should be a cross between embroidery and rug hooking.
Hmm…I’ve never tried the snap style lap quilting frames. Might be worth a try. It has to hold the backing taut, while you pull, sometimes quite forcefully, through to the front.
Have you checked out the rug hooking videos on YouTube by Deanne Fitzpatrick and myself (hs2oca)? They will show you how to rug hook.
No, I’ve never used a tambour hook/needle. I have a punch needle here, but have no idea what to do with it. I think you need a bigger frame and to work from the back of the piece with it.
So many different things to try! I will have to check out the videos.
Sweet design – would be fun to hook it up! I am a self-taught rug hooker – I decided I wanted to learn how after seeing beautiful rugs featured in decorating magazines. There were very few hookers in Utah twelve years ago, but now we’ve got several local groups and an official state guild – WooHoo!
Congratulations on your 5ooth post! My aunt was an interior designer with Ethan Allen furniture stores., and she and my uncle were renovating their home in the colonial style. When they finished their living room they invited my parents and me over to see the room. By the fireplace, was a frame, with a partially finished hooked piece on it (blue delft), and a hook in the burlap, with a basket of wool, and scissors on the floor next to it. Gorgeous! I asked what type of needlecraft it was, my aunt told me it was traditional rug hooking. I asked if she could show me how to do it. She didn’t feel she could teach me, but her teacher made room in the class for both me and my mom. I was hooked at first sight! lol By the way, when I asked my aunt how long it would take to finish the piece, she said never. That she did it to that point, and was using it as effect in the room – like the needleworker had just left and would return momentarily to work on it again. To my knowledge, she never did finish that little rug, but did others, including a 7 foot round with a fruit border for her dining room. That was 43 years ago. I can’t explain the appeal – I just love the creativity of choosing colors and fabrics and seeing a rug come to life using them.