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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rug hooking fits into the “waste not, want not” mentality. Using recycled wool from clothing and remnants from textile mills, rug hooking was once common in households along the eastern seaboard in ...

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 ...

Rug hookers from New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania have been working for over a year to get ready for the second Hooked Rug Festival at the Mill that will be held at Prallsville Mills in Stockton, ...

WAUTOMA – The Heart of Wisconsin Rug Hooking Guild will sponsor its 25th annual Fall Hook-In from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 25 at Mount Morris Camp and Conference Center, W6016 Blackhawk Road, Wautoma.