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’ ...

It's hasn't quite reached lost-art status yet, but the craft of hand-hooking rugs definitely is a hobby and passion that should be embraced by more people. That opinion comes from Wilma Hill, the ...

SELINSGROVE -- After a long day at the office, Ruth Roush would come home and hook rugs. What began as a hobby evolved into a long-time avocation. "You could say I was a hooker for 50 years," she said ...

Everything’s old fashioned in the Log Cabin Museum at the annual Tunbridge World’s Fair. Atop Antique Hill, with Civil War reenactors camped outside, the exhibition hall features weavers, printers and ...

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 ...

STANFORDVILLE – "A Collection of Hooked Rugs," presented by the arts nonprofit Creative Crossroads, opened this weekend at the Stanford Grange in Stanfordville. The free exhibition features dozens of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KITCHENER - Kate Seely has a lapel pin she loves to wear. It reads: “proud to be a hooker.” This fibre artist has heard all the jokes about one of her favourite crafty pastimes, rug hooking.