In the months since her nest emptied as her youngest child left home for college this fall, Mary Roberts, president of the Wauwatosa-based public relations firm Buzz Monkeys Inc., has been searching ...

TROY, Vt. (AP) - Carolyn Buttolph likes to like to makes things people can use. She hooks rugs, everything from pot holders to large rugs, and leads a class on rug hooking at the Vermont Quilters’ ...

Editor's note: This is the fifth story in an ongoing series about interesting hobbies in and around the Norwalk area. If you have an interesting hobby you would like profiled, contact Staff Writer ...

For Nancy Greene, it’s almost a form of therapy. For Leanne Sitler, it’s an art form, but so much more. Both women are hookers. OK, get your mind out of the gutter. They’re rug hookers, and they’ve ...

Katie Hartner has added making rug hooking patterns to her Tyler quilting business. She bought A Nimble Thimble here about 13 years ago and recently acquired Woolley Fox from Barbara Carroll, who ...

Mary Bajcz, who came to the Detroit News Stitch-Together in May, has an amazing talent for turning scraps of wool fabric, leftover yarn and discarded wool garments into beautifully handcrafted rag ...

Have you ever considered learning traditional rug hooking? If so, the Great Lakes Rug Hooking Guild invites you to join their group, which meets every second and fourth Wednesday at the Washington ...

(Pictured above) Linda Nolte, owner of Cottage Sampler, Beth Bellairs, Marge Huftalin and Linda Patterson, instructors at the Carriage House Primitives in St. Ansgar behind the Sampler, display some ...

They can be fine art or as practical as a potholder. While the origins of hooked rugs date to the Vikings, modern rug hooking really was born here in New England. With Hook in Hand, which opened in ...