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Standing Wool And Quillies

Couronne de Noël - Christmas Wreath

Year Completed: 2015
Height: 350
Width: 50
Materials Used: all kinds of fabric in #8 cut
Designers Name: Anne-lise Bresson, inspired by Annette Shaffer and Linda Pietz
A mix from RHM November/December 2015, XXVII, No.3—p. 23 (quillies) and p. 53 (Advent calendar design). I gave it to Caritas, who furnish me with fabrics for Christmas. It was a very pleasant thing to do. (And sorry about my English.)

Primitive Rugs

Three Horses

Year Completed: 2012
Height: 24
Width: 36
Materials Used: wool
Designers Name: Tricia Travis
Hooked witih #7, scrap wool, textured wool.Teacher was Dianne Stoffel

Huck & Bow
Year Completed: 2015
Height: 11
Width: 9
Materials Used: Monks Cloth and Hand-Dyed Wool
Designers Name: Jodi Desjardins
I recently discovered the art of rug hooking and was thrilled to have found a hobby that I could express my creative side through pattern design. I am a business owner with four children and the process of designing a rug pattern and then hooking to completion is something very relaxing and gratifying for me. This is my second ever completed rug and my very first self designed and hooked pattern that I called Huck & Bow. I am still very new to this hobby and so of course my hooking is not perfect, but the nice thing about this art is how forgiving the end result can be and still very primitively beautiful! I used pre-cut hand dyed wool that I purchased from etsy. Most of the strips are #8 and when I needed detail I cut the strip in half. When completly hooked,  I found a used vintage frame from a thrift store to finish and protect my rug.

Inspired by Textiles

Quincy Street 1630 Runner
Year Completed:  2015
Height:  16
Width:  59
Materials Used:  wool
Designers Name:  Anne Bond
Adaptation from coverlet. Patterns are on linen, I used 2 colors and hooked in sizes 6 and 8.

Quincy Street 1630 Pillow
Year Completed: 2015
Height: 13
Width: 23
Materials Used: wool
Designers Name: Anne Bond
Adaptation from a coverlet. Patterns are on linen, using 2 colors and hooking in cut sizes 6 and 8.

Footstools and Furniture

Pheasant Footstool
Year Completed: 2010
Height: 27
Width: 15
Materials Used: #6- to 8-cut wool and proddy on linen.
Designers Name: Kim Kaelin
The footstool legs are salmon with red dots, similar to several of the hooked sides of the cushion. The bottom of each leg has a black and white striped ball, which reflects the black-and-white check in the hooking. I also painted a pop of teal blue on the legs to bring out the teal coloring on the pheasant's head. For more details, see the article in the March/April/May 2012 Rug Hooking Magazine.

Red Suns
Year Completed: 2011
Height: 12
Width: 18
Materials Used: Wool on linen.
Designers Name: Nancy Parcels
Interesting sun/star shapes move the eye around in this country footstool.

3D Hookings

Matroyoshka Dolls
Year Completed: 2006
Height: 10
Width: 11
Materials Used: #3 cut wool on linen for doll bodies poly stuffing pie weights for stability wool covered foam core for the bottom
Designers Name: Carol Koerner
These hooked dolls are based on the wooden Russian Matryoshka dolls, are three dimentional and were each hooked in three pieces plus the round bottom piece that was  made from a  piece of foam core covered in wool. They are 10" 7" 6" and 4" tall. The pieces  were carefully sew together from the outside, stuffed and weighted with ceramic pie crust weights and  finished with the bottom sewed on last.

SPCA Dollies

Year Completed: 2015
Height: 22
Width: 10
Materials Used: #5 cut wool strips on linen; muslin body stuffed with polyester filler; dressed with recycled woolen clothing
Designers Name: Joan Hull Strausbaugh
I designed the "SPCA Dolly" pattern as a way to grow my contribution to our local shelter. I invested $200 in myself, drew up a pattern and produced illustrated instructions on how to make the doll. I have been selling the pattern and have made over $2000 to contribute to our animal shelter. The first one looked like a metro-sexual George Washington. Over the years I have refined my "hair" technique to make it easier to hook and assemble.