In the months since her nest emptied as her youngest child left home for college this fall, Mary Roberts, president of the Wauwatosa-based public relations firm Buzz Monkeys Inc., has been searching ...

SELINSGROVE -- After a long day at the office, Ruth Roush would come home and hook rugs. What began as a hobby evolved into a long-time avocation. "You could say I was a hooker for 50 years," she said ...

They can be fine art or as practical as a potholder. While the origins of hooked rugs date to the Vikings, modern rug hooking really was born here in New England. With Hook in Hand, which opened in ...

TROY, Vt. (AP) - Carolyn Buttolph likes to like to makes things people can use. She hooks rugs, everything from pot holders to large rugs, and leads a class on rug hooking at the Vermont Quilters’ ...

Mary Bajcz, who came to the Detroit News Stitch-Together in May, has an amazing talent for turning scraps of wool fabric, leftover yarn and discarded wool garments into beautifully handcrafted rag ...

A corner of Pam Bartlett's rug hooking studio in Loudon. When you walk into Pam Bartlett’s studio in Loudon, you’re greeted by an explosion of color. The shelves of her basement-turned-workshop are ...

For Nancy Greene, it’s almost a form of therapy. For Leanne Sitler, it’s an art form, but so much more. Both women are hookers. OK, get your mind out of the gutter. They’re rug hookers, and they’ve ...

CABOT, Vt. (WCAX) - Cabot’s Sandy Ducharme has loved fiber arts since she was a little girl. “Learning to sew, knit, crochet,” she said. With a family full of fiber artists, it comes as no surprise.

Everything’s old fashioned in the Log Cabin Museum at the annual Tunbridge World’s Fair. Atop Antique Hill, with Civil War reenactors camped outside, the exhibition hall features weavers, printers and ...