Rug Hooking Kits
Original Designs by Deanne Fitzpatrick
To order call 1-800-328-7756 or use our online shopping cart. Our order line is open every day. Please call if you have any questions 1-800-328-7756 or if you have any trouble using the online cart. We'll be happy to help you. We accept visa and mastercard. Simple step by step instructions can be found at the bottom of this page. We ship by expedited post and the shipping on most parcels is between $10 to $15.
All Patterns are printed on primitive burlap. All patterns are also available on linen or Scottish burlap. If you do not know how to hook you can easily teach yourself.. I also have a step by step book, Hook Me Story, (17.95 C) that is a great tool for teaching yourself this wonderful craft. All of these kits can be created by a beginning rug hooker. Each kit contains: Stamped pattern, recycled wool cloth strips, easy to follow instructions, rug hook.
To our American customers please note your prices are approximately 15 to 20% less than the prices displayed in Canadian dollars. Right now, November, 2008, the American dollar is valued higher than the Canadian dollar so your credit card will be charged the lower US prices which will vary depending on the fluctuation in the dollar.
Three Swimmers $160C This rug is also available as a poster for $10 with poem, and as notecards with poem written on the back. If you would like either just ask me to add them to your order in a second email or call 1-800-328-7756. |
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The Woman on the Path 20 by 32" |
Living on the Edge 24 by 24" $140C complete with wool cloth strips, and stamped pattern, instructions. colour key and rug hook |
Coastal Girls 20" by 30 $160.00C complete with wool cloth strips, and stamped pattern, instructions. colour key and rug hook Pattern Only $28 on linen$49 |
Textured Kit This kit emphasized the use of hand spun, natural sheep's wool , fancy yarns, wool cloth strips to create a field rug with plenty of dimension and an almost sculptural quality to it. The pattern is drawn on but you rely somewhat on your intuition to create a luxurious and artistic field rug.Complete with wool cloth strips, and stamped pattern, instructions. colour key and rug hook Pattern Only $28 on linen $49 |
Great Beginnings Rug Hooking Starter Pack
This package makes an excellent gift. It includes everything you need to get you or your friend hooking rugs. $99.00CIt includes our top quality ash hoop, which will be good for future larger projects, a pair of sharp scissors, a rug hook, my complete how to book, "Hook me a Story", and your choice of one of four rug hooking kits that comes complete with pattern and cut wool strips. It is everything you need to begin a new craft all in one package. Choose from Welcome, Old Fashioned Posy, Pitched Roof House, Starfish, or Little house chair pad kits all pictured below. Specify which kit in the comments section if you order online or tell us when you call 1-800-328-7756 to order.
Large Kit Starter Pack
$159.00C |
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These are Fine Beginner Projects or a Wonderful Gift to Get Someone Started Rug Hooking |
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| Pitched Roof House ,Star Fish or, old Fashioned Posy 11 by 11"
$42C Funky Fish 11 by 23" $59C These kits contain Pattern, Wool cloth strips, Rug Hooking Instruction Booklet, Colour Key, and hook |
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Dory Man13"round $50C
Going Shoppin' 10 by14 $50C
Cape Islander13"round $50 |
Getting out of the house 12 by 24" $89.95C
I Only Told My Sister 12 by 24" $89.95C These kits are both shown with our solid pine hand painted frames. We offer custom frames for rugs. They are available in several colours and various sizes prices range from $28C to $50C |
Some Traditional Favorite Kits |
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The Wash 18" by "31 Pattern $26 |
Folk Art Cats 18" by 30" Pattern $26.00 |
Family Farm 19" by 30" |
The Lightkeeper 18" by 30" |
The Parkas 12" by 32" |
Washing the Quilts 18 by 34" |
One and Only Sunflowers 20"by30" |
Antique Posy 16" by 32" |
Safe in the Harbour 19" by 34" |
Mixed Farm 17" by 33" |
Quilts on the Line 14 by 36" |
Willow and Saltboxes 20" by 34" |
Great Beginner Project |
Great Beginner Project |
The Three Saltboxes, 12X30" |
Hit and Miss Runner 18" by 72" |
Row Houses 8" by 26" |
Hot Mat Kits Choose one, 6X6" |
For Information or to order kits you can contact us at 1-800-328-7756.
Our catalog is available by sending $5.00 DEanne Fitzpatrick 7 Electric Street Amherst B4H 1W9
All kits include a hook, a stamped pattern, easy to follow instructions, and all the recycled wool cloth strips you need to complete the kit. You can easily teach yourself if you do not already know how to hook. It is a simple technique of using a hook to pull a strip of cloth up through burlap loop by loop. In primitive hooking you outline and fill in the picture that is already drawn on your burlap backing (stamped pattern). It is a simple technique that has been done in North America for over 150 years. The early settlers made hooked mats out of old clothes and feed bags to warm their cold damp floors. Rug Hooking is an important part of our heritage and culture. My book Hook Me A Story (86pg.,full colour $12.95 US $16.95 C) includes a history, a complete how to guide, and several chapters on colour texture and design.
RUG HOOKING INSTRUCTIONS
How to Hook a Rug
Hooking rugs is a simple task of pulling strips of wool cloth, usually recycled clothing, washed , dried , and torn apart through a burlap backing loop by loop. There are no hard and fast rules. The simplest way to learn is to pick out a kit at www.hookingrugs.com or you can start from scratch. It was a craft born of necessity as early settlers tried to warm cold damp floors , they would use the feed bags in the barn, a hook fashioned out of a nail, and old torn and ragged clothing. Using four boards clamped together as a frame, women would set up a rug by the kitchen stove. The old clothing was torn into strips and hooked loop by loop onto burlap. Often children would tear or cut the rags into strips. The husband would make the hook, and the frame, and the woman of the house would hook the rug. Rug hOoking is a rich part of North American heritage. It is often said to have originated on the Eastern Seaboard of North America, making it one of the few crafts indigenous to North America. If that is so, it has clearly been derived from other types of hooking that existed in many European, and middle eastern cultures. Todays it remains a faithful past time. Generations after our ancestors arrived in the new world, rug hooking can still be carried out with out electricity or technology, in the same authentic way it was carried out years ago.
You will need:
- Rug Hook
- Backing of Burlap or Linen
- Wool cloth scraps cut into one quarter inch strips
- A hoop, stretcher bar or rug hooking frame
1. You first fasten your pattern, which is a piece of burlap with a picture drawn upon onto a frame such as a heavy duty quilting hoop, or a stretcher bar.
2. Cut a strip of wool cloth about one quarter an inch wide, and about eight to twelve inches long.
3. Hold your hook in the hand you use to hold your pencil, and the strip of wool in the other hand. Put your hook down through a hole in the burlap backing, and catch the piece of wool, pulling it up thru the burlap. Bring the first end right up through, then continue the hooking pulling it up loop by loop.
4. In primitive hooking , you generally start by outlining an area and then filling it in.
5.Continue hooking until the whole mat is done. Bring all your ends of wool to the surface and clip them evenly with your loops.
6.When you finish your project, cut the excess burlap away from the edge, leaving no more than two inches all around. Use this to bind the rug by folding it and sewing it along the backside of the rug. You can also use cotton twill tape to bind it along the edge.
7.The final stage is to press you rugs with a wet cloth and hot iron on both sides to even out the loops and give your rug a finished look
If you have more questions about rug hooking look at our Frequently Asked Questions Page
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Step OneSecure your pattern onto a hoop or a frame so that it is taught like a drum. This will make the hooking easier. Put your hook in the hand you write with. Put the strip of wool in the other hand and put this hand, holding the wool underneath your pattern. |
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Step TwoPut your hook through a hole in the burlap pulling |
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Step ThreeContinue pulling the loops up in every second |