Artist Molly Colegrove has a love affair with barns and the landscapes that surround them. Take a walk with her through her beloved New York state and learn many of her tricks and techniques for depicting a rural landscape in wool. Molly uses wool strips, wool yarn along with many alternative fibers and techniques to hook her lovely pieces and she shares her hard-earned knowledge with you. Molly incorporates quilting, roving, felting, beads, embroidery, and more. Capturing clouds and skies, water and fields, trees and fields-Molly has her own approach to translating a landscape into textile art.

Take the intimidation out of hooking realistic or impressionistic landscapes with this full colour book that leads the reader step-by-step through the process of designing and hooking a rug landscape. Author Anne-Marie Littenberg combines the craft of rug hooking with basic art skills used for centuries, guiding readers through inspiration, design and planning stages, including chapters on perspective, contrast, and colour. Hooked Rug Landscapes contains tips and tricks for evaluating one's work, as well as providing specific techniques for various elements. This Book is an indispensable tool for those who wish to hook landscape designs. AUTHOR: Anne-Marie Littenberg lives in Burlington, Vermont, with her husband, Ben, and is the past president of the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild. She is a frequent contributor to Rug Hooking magazine and has served as a judge for Rug Hooking magazine's annual Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs. ILLUSTRATIONS 100 colour photos

Anne-Marie Littenberg is a well-known author and fiber artist. She teaches how to capture personalities and likenesses in wool in hooked rugs, an exciting current trend. Tips and tricks will add depth, dimension, and emotion. There is also a section for capturing the personality of your dog or cat.

Secrets Of Planning & Designing Hand-Hooked Rugs is a Stackpole Books publication.

Flags and flowers, gardens and pumpkins-all speak of tradition, family, and home. Mother-and-daughter team Julie Thomas and Carol DeCoteau, from The Old Tattered Flag, designed a collection of rug hooking and punch needle embroidery patterns for you. The 14 projects in these pages, presented to you as seven hooked rug designs and seven punch needle designs, allow you to go big or go small. Instructions help you complete these charming projects, which will fit into any home.

Top artisans have added technically innovative methods to this traditional craft and the results are visually stunning. Using many magnificent examples of finished works, from landscapes to whimsical animals to flowers and fruits, a longtime rug hooker shows how to incorporate alphabets and adapt patterns and borders, deleting what you don't want and substituting what you like. Play with texture and color, following the tips of four unique craftswomen. Put the guidance on stitching, designing, and developing a style to work instantly, on 10 original projects, plus sample alphabets, all created by these creative professionals.