[Nfb-krafters-korner] Rug Hooking Book ...

Tue Sep 29 11:54:36 UTC 2009

I'm curious. I used to do latch hook rugs and then once somone showed me a 
hooked rug where the strands weren't tied in knots like with a latch hook, 
the strands were closed loops. Is that the same?
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From: "Annette Carr" <amcarr1 at verizon.net>
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Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 7:35 PM
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> Many years ago I used to do rug hooking.  I would try to find kits that 
> did
> not have a lot of little sections of color.  I would start with one color
> and have someone go through and mark the start of the color I was working
> with by putting in one strand of that color at the start of that color on
> that row or in that section, and mark the end of the run with 2 hooked
> strands.  So if a row was made up of 5 strands of one color, then 5 
> strands
> of color 2, 5 strands of color 3, and this pattern repeated 3 times on 
> that
> row, then it would be set up as follows if I was working with color 2.
>
> 5 empty spaces, 1 strand of color 2, 2 empty spaces of color 2, 2 strands 
> of
> color 2, 10 empty spaces, 1 strand of color 2, 2 empty spaces of color 2, 
> 2
> strands of color 2, 10 empty spaces, 1 strand of color 2, 2 empty spaces 
> of
> color 2, 2 strands of color 2, 5 empty spaces.
>
> I would then fill in color 2 in the empty spaces.
>
> I hope this makes sense.  I can't say that this was the best way to
> accomplish this, and it required that you have someone around who was
> willing to work with you to set up the beginnings and ends of the color
> runs.
>
> I've used a technique for making my own designs by marking off sections 
> with
> masking tape, or weaving thin yarn through the canvas to outline the 
> design
> I wanted to make.
>
> Annette
>
>
>
>
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> Way back in high school I hooked a butterfly pillow for my mom. We still
> have it somewhere.  They are very durable.
> But it is hard for a low vision person to see the pattern.  A bird on a
> branch sounds like a very pretty pattern.  My butterfly was kind of pretty
> (blues and greens), but not as bright as a bird.  I modified the pattern a
> little bit and put little butterflies around the central large butterfly,
> extending the size of the pillow a bit. It turned out nice, but took a 
> while
> to make.  When I was that age I never liked following a pattern exactly --  
> I
> would get the general idea, possibly following it if it was good, but 
> always
> felt a need to make the design my own by adding embellishments.
> Anyway, happy krafting.
> --le
>
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> From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <Terry.Powers at nih.gov>
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>
> I wonder if this is about latch hooking?  I did one long ago.  They come 
> in
> kits and are not very accessable for blind people.  This was a picture of 
> a
> bird on a branch.  My mom outlined with the yarn stitches of the color and 
> I
>
> filled it in.  A majority of it was white background.  I tried holding the
> canvis against a white pillow case and even that did not help much.
> Terry
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carol Osmar [mailto:osmarc at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 9:02 PM
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> Eileen, I am always interested in the new crafting books you find.
>
> Carol
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>
>> Hope you don't mind, but here is one other book I thought might be of
>> interest to some on rug hooking.  This one is in DtB format:
>>
>> Author:        Lovelady, Donna.
>> Title:         Rug hooking for the first time [sound recording]
>>                  / Donna Lovelady.
>> Published:     Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for
>>                  the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of
>> Congress,
>>                  2006. (APH, recording studio).
>> Book Number:   DB58033
>>
>> Eileen
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