The Wild West Rug Hookers and I ventured to Kemmerer Wyoming for the very first Wyoming Wool and Sheep Festival. Patty, Debra, and Catherine all demonstrated hooking rugs and I sold hand dyed fiber and yarns.  We were settling in for the day. The Triangle Park in Kemmerer was the perfect place and the weather was perfect as well.  I am getting my frame all ready even though I never had a chance to sit down and hook. Patty was all ready and had a great time demonstrating rug hooking to a lot of interested people. Catherine Buttrick who is the new ATHA Region 10 Rep came wit ..read more

 I feel a sense of relief that for the first time since Covid the Wild West Rug Hookers are meeting at the Library in Cody!  We will meet on Saturday, July 17th, 2021. As usual, we will start hooking at 9:30 and hook until we want or 4:30. Bring a lunch or go out to eat. Come and go as you please. I'm excited to see everyone in our "old gathering spot".  ..read more

 A wonderful lady I finally had the pleasure of meeting created a Worm Challenge that ended in April. Catherine Butterick challenged ATHA Region 10 to use only left over strips of wool from other projects to make a rug. We were to send pictures of our worms to begin the challenge.  This was most of the worms I started with. I seriously wonder how many rugs I can make just from this pile. I still had a few containers in the basement. Here is the rug I made with the worms. I can never get the colors right. the leaves are greener, teal. I am so happy with the way it turned out. It is ..read more

I finished hooking my Ipswich rug from Woolley Fox. I hand dyed a lot of the wool for this rug and I changed the pot to a redware design. I hadn't bound or steamed it yet when I took this picture but as soon as I get a sleeve on it I will be hanging it up. It turned out to be one of my favorite rugs ..read more

I have had this Sunflower Footstool pattern, designed by Kim Nixon, for quite a while now and decided to get it done. First I had to spot dye all the fabric. I knew exactly how I wanted it to look. The pattern didn't have a flower that would be on top of the stool so I put one in. I'm so happy with how it turned out. Now I need to make the footstool. For the Coverlet I dye the fabric after seeing one Barb Hagler brought to one of our meetings. I love how it turned out. I had wanted to make this pattern from The Old Tattered Flag for a long time but until I saw Barbs I never really knew wh ..read more

In the last month I have really been getting a lot of rug hooking finished. In fact I've been obsessed. I hooked the runner from Theresa Rapstine. It matches the pillows I did a couple years ago. I hooked it in a size 10.  This was a kit I bought in Denver at the ATHA Biennial. It is a Tricia Travis design.  Then I finished up two pillows I started earlier. I always stuff my pillows and things with snippets. On the blue pillow I made a piping and I did a proddy edge on the heart. The bird is a Two Old Crows design. It was a crock pattern but I wanted it a pillow. The heart was in a Maggie ..read more

When I was at the ATHA Biennial I bought this massive rug pattern from Theresa Rapstine. It is 36"x92" and I hooked it in torn strips. When we had the Hook-In in Shell, WY, Katie Hartner from Woolley Fox color planned it for me. I can't tell you how happy I am with how this rug turned out. It sure doesn't look like it's that big. Patty Tyrrell had to stand on a step stool to photograph it for me. I'm now on the binding and I expect it to take a few days to do.  At the Hook-In in Shell, Katie Hartner was the Vendor and I bought this beautiful pumpkin kit from her. I was binding it on Saturday ..read more

I finished two rugs after the Denver ATHA Biennial.  The flowers is a design by Theresa Rapsting using torn strips. The paper is from the Shell Hook-In where Patty took the picture for me. I got the kit in Denver and it didn't take long to hook. I love it so much! This is one I started before we went to Denver. It is a Red House Wool design. I am really happy with the way it turned out. My next post will be pictures of our Shell Wyoming Hook-In so Stay Tuned ..read more

I haven't posted in so long I'm not sure where to start. In August Patty, Debra, and I went to Denver Colorado for the ATHA Biennial. It was beyond words. The first two days I sold my necklaces and bracelets. This was my first time Vending so I wasn't sure what to expect but my jewelry sold really well. The Spoons have words like Rug Hooker, Imagine, Create, and Wool stamped on them. I hand made each of the rug hooks and the hook earrings and flattened and stamped all the spoons.  My bracelets are hand woven with silk and wool threads hand dyed by me and they are attached to copper ..read more

 When I started this rug from The Old Tattered Flag I had a burgundy background and a different medium neutral. I realized about 1/3rd of the way through it that I wasn't going to have enough of the red. It had been so long since I dyed the wool that I couldn't remember how I dyed it so I pulled all the red out. After I chose a brown I realized the medium tone wouldn't work so I pulled it all out too. I just felt like it HAD to get done so pulling the colors out didn't bother me as much as an unfinished project did. I'm glad I reworked the rug and I'm glad it's finished. The binding still need ..read more