The Rapid Resizer

Morning Glory, designed and hooked by Jane Halliwell Green, Edgewater, Maryland, 1998.

Even rug hookers who enjoy the planning phase of a new rug can find the prospect of sizing the pattern elements awkward: enlarging images on a photocopier can be expensive, using a grid to redraw and resize is slow and tedious, freehanding the design directly onto the rug foundation leaves too much room for error. So what's a rug hooker to do?

This article is from the January/February 2010 issue. For more information on our issues, check out our issues page.