Rughooking a face: Hooking the Nose and Lips
Continue with the wide cut face rug hooking tutorial by hooking the upper lip and nose.
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Rug Hooking an Interesting Background
Hook an interesting background using small circles and spot dyed wool so that it looks like distant foliage.
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Rug Hooking begins on the Mother’s Arm
Be careful to hide the lines when you are hooking something organic such as a person. In this post I am rug hooking the arm. After breaking it into light, medium and dark areas all that is left is to fill it in.
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Hooking the eyes of Woman with Baby
The first steps in rug hooking a face using wide cuts and textured wool.
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Day 426 – 659 Progress on Room-sized rug
Day 434 Background progress One question that I hear often is about background. What direction do you hook? To answer this question fully I would have to write a full article. But to show you my favorite way to hook a background is easy. The first picture below shows the first step I take. I…
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Day 276 – 425 Progress on Room-sized Rug
Day 281 I spent the 4th hooking! As promised, here is another picture of the rug. I made a lot of progress this weekend. Most of the progress is in the upper right hand corner. When I lug it back upstairs, I will hook more of the border this time. Once I decide that the…
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How to Hook a Face Workshop
Explanation of the faces workshop I taught at Southern Teachers’ Workshop in 2009. See a finished student’s piece by Maddy Frioli.
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Rughooking a face: Adjusting the Forehead Shading
The rug hooking on the textured wide cut face continues. A slight adjustment to the forehead and a bright highlight on the lower lip help to refine the face.
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Rughooking a face: How to hook the eye
Use these step by step instruction on how to hook an eye. Part of the wide cut faces tutorial.
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Green Blurry Foilage Background Continues
Background rug hooked with spot dyes is beginning to take shape. A darker version of the spot dye is used to fill in the areas around the circles.
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Rug Hooking Some Background on Woman with Baby
I am beginning to add some of the background hooking foilage without hooking foilage, just small green spot dyed circles.
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Rug Hooking the Mother’s Blue Head Scarf
Adding a blue scarf to this woman matches her mood. I had originally planned on rug hooking some elegant jewelry. She look too tired for jewels.
