Punch Needle, Rug Hooking, Cross Stitch, & Primitive Crafts Patterns & Tutorials
Welcome to DoodleDog Primitives! I love to inspire you to make your own primitive style folk art. Here you will find many patterns and tutorials to help you create your own heirloom quality punch needle, rug hooking, cross stitch, and primitive craft projects.
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Punch Needle:
Crafting can be expensive! While creating punch needle projects isn't as expensive as rug hooking or other primitive crafts, buying Read more
In this tutorial, I want to show you how fast it is to make punch needle strawberries. These are the Read more
In this post, I am going to show you how to assemble these two punch needle garden scenes. We will Read more
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Rug Hooking:
In this post, I will show you how I made a hooked rug Santa sign. I will be making the Read more
Today, I am going to show you how to create a hooked rug wall hanging that isn't droopy. This technique Read more
I really love the way these Santa hooked rug pillows turned out but I wondered if there was a way Read more
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Cross Stitch:
In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to make cross stitch bowl fillers with a sewing machine, Read more
I have a couple of embroidery projects in carved wood picture frames, so when I saw this picture frame, I Read more
In order to make an antique style cross stitch sampler in a specific size, I combined a few different patterns Read more
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Primitive Crafts
I had been wanting an antique shoo fly screen but they are difficult to find so I decided to make Read more
Today I want to show you how to make these redware style Christmas ornaments. They have been designed to look Read more
Last summer, I snagged these stackable oval wooden boxes. Now, the paint job is definitely not in my colors, but Read more
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Recent Posts:
- Country Goose Hooked Rug PatternIf you are loving the “new” country goose trend, this hooked rug pillow is for you! The pillow is designed in the vintage style of the 1980s and 90s country goose and… Read more: Country Goose Hooked Rug Pattern
- Country Goose Punch Needle Bowl Filler PatternI am sure most of you remember the very iconic country goose from the 1980s and 1990s. The goose is back again and gaining popularity. I have noticed at auctions and antique… Read more: Country Goose Punch Needle Bowl Filler Pattern
- Hooked Rug Tree TopperI found a coil Christmas tree topper at a garage sale that was the perfect size for me to transform into a hooked rug star tree topper. If you are looking for… Read more: Hooked Rug Tree Topper
- Upcycle a Halloween BucketI came across a small Halloween candy bucket in a thrift store earlier this fall. I loved its size, but I like a more primitive look so I decided to upcycle it… Read more: Upcycle a Halloween Bucket
- Over Dye Wool for Primitive CraftingI had a piece of felted wool that wasn’t quite orange and it wasn’t quite gold. I knew I would never use it in any primitive crafting project as it was. So,… Read more: Over Dye Wool for Primitive Crafting



















