Rug Hooking Tutorials

In this post, I will show you how I made a hooked rug Santa sign. I will be making the sign by adding the hooked rug and other embellishments to an old cabinet panel board. This hooked rug Santa pattern is adjustable in height so you can make one to fit your board! Watch the […]

How much shrinkage should you expect when felting wool for rug hooking, applique, or other projects? Not surprisingly, it will depend on the tightness of the weave in the wool and other factors in the wool itself. But I decided to do a little experiment with some recently purchased wool fabrics to see if there […]

With the recent release of a hooked rug crow make-do pattern in my shop, I thought you might enjoy a tutorial on how to make a rug hooked make-do. You don’t have to stop at making a crow though. You could make lots of make-dos from small rug hooking patterns! I am going to use […]

In this rug hooking tutorial, I will make a hooked rug sunflower. This sunflower can be used as a bowl filler, add it to a crow make-do, or you can add a stem and place it in a floral arrangement. Perhaps with other hooked rug flowers! It has a hooked rug flower center and felted […]

In this rug hooking tutorial, I am going to make some hooked rug cone flowers. These will be on a wire stem so you can bend them to suit your flower arrangement. Watch the Video Tutorial: Prepare the Flower Stems: Take three brown fabric wrapped floral wire stems and twist them together. This will make […]

In this rug hooking tutorial, I will show you how I make rug hooked bowl fillers. You could use these in your decor to place into wooden bowls, or place on shelves. Watch the Video: Making the Bowl Fillers: I like to make shaped pillows and bowl fillers using monks cloth as the foundation fabric. […]

In this rug hooking tutorial, I will add a wool backing to a small hooked rug project and add a hanger so the project can easily be displayed. I completed this tutorial using a spring hooked rug pattern, but any small sized rug hooking pattern would work! Watch the Video Tutorial: Add a Back to […]

Instead of hooking loops as is done in regular rug hooking, proddy rug hooking hooks short strips of wool to make a fluffy, fringed look. Just a few things you could use proddy hooking for are bunny tails, flamingo wings, and flower petals. There are special proddy hooking tools you can purchase, but I have […]

You can use monks cloth as a foundation fabric for rug hooking or rug punching with yarn. In this post, I will show you three different ways to finish the edges on monks cloth so it doesn’t unravel while you are working on your project. I know some of you don’t have a serger or […]

Once again, we have my mom joining us for this post. She is going to demonstrate how she outlines a rug hooking project when using monks cloth as her foundation fabric. This rug hooking pattern has both straight lines and a curved outline edge and she will show us both! For the background on this […]

In this post, my Mom, an avid rug hooker, will be joining us again with another rug hooking tutorial. She is going to show us how she hooks letters. It is fairly easy to hook letters with straight lines – such as a capital F. The curved letters, like O or S can be more […]

My mom has been hooking rugs since I was a kid. Luckily, when I need some rug hooking advice, she is always happy to help. In this rug hooking tutorial, my Mom shows us how she gets the points crisp when rug hooking the points on a star. Watch the Video: Hooking the Points of […]

I was gifted a vintage footstool from a friend. It was in pretty rough condition, but I love the legs on it. In this post, I will show you how I fixed the stool and made a rug hooking top from a quilt pattern. The stool had a small piece chipped off so we glued […]