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This Christmas my family made a rag rug together. Like many families in this mad and increasingly bad world we are treasuring and prioritising analogue entertainments as a bulwark. Despite the global chaos, 2025 was for me a year dominated by the connections and comforts that the four humble pieces of wood that make up… Continue reading The Cymbeline Rug: Rag rugs in the frame.

I hadn’t seen this done before but when I hooked my lighthouse rug pattern onto a linen background, I decided it would look like a dark stormy or dusky sky if I left the background unhooked.

That left me wondering how I would finish it so that nothing showed through from the back. Here is the method I came up with that worked very well and was very easy to do.

First I laid the rug face down on the cutting mat. Then I cut a piece of fabric that was close ...

You probably remember the first kind, they were very popular in the 60’s and 70’s.

Latch Hook Rugs

The hook had a little door on it and you worked with a 3” piece of yarn. You started at the bottom and row by row worked your way up to the top. The canvas was preprinted and you just followed the colors.

Well we are now hooking rugs, much like one hundred years ago, using everything we can find. It is a way of going green. The thrift stores have a bounty of treasures and rug hookers are on ...