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So two weeks ago, my original plan for getting this large latched hook rug complete ran into a tangle. I had originally purchased all the necessary colors, and enough bags of those colors, to supposedly complete this rug without complications. However … the best laid schemes of mice and men, you know … And sure…

I don’t know about you … but I feel like I’m moving faster and faster on this project. I sit down after dinner, grab the canvas, and start hooking. I take a Saturday morning, go run my morning errands, come back home, and start hooking. I mean, this was where I was last week at…

This is crazy. I started this rug project – a recreation of a photo I took of the Middle Covered Bridge in Woodstock, Vermont – last year around this time. I dibbed and dabbed at it, and halfway through the project I put it aside, causing me to miss the deadline for completing it and…

Yes, I’m still plowing away on this custom-made latch hook covered bridge project. Background for those who are new to my blog. In October 2024, I took a photo of the Middle Covered Bridge in Woodstock, Vermont, just at the peak of foliage season. And I thought to myself, that would make an incredible latched…

As of right now, my left and right panels for this latch hook covered bridge are complete. Which makes me very happy. But I still have to connect them to a center panel. Here’s what I have so far. So what this entails is a third piece of canvas. I have to make the canvas…

Hey folks … guest what. I’ve reached a milestone on this major latch hook rug project. I finished the right panel. Let me explain. This is the biggest latch hook rug I’ve ever crafted; so big, in fact, that it takes three panels to complete. This is the left panel, I finished that a few…

So … we are at the one-year mark of the creation of this latch hook rug. One year ago, I took the original picture of the Woodstock Covered Bridge in Vermont that formed the basis of this artwork. A simple covered bridge that is part of the town’s infrastructure. And yeah, I thought this would…

While working on this recent latch hook rug project, I realized that I’m doing what my Grandma Betty used to do when I was a child. Let me explain. I lived with my paternal grandmother (my Grandma Betty) at her house outside Boston in summers, so that I could get away from my toxic home…

Yesterday, I dropped off my previous latch hook rug, A Bicolor Sunflower, to the Big Es New England Center for the 2025 Big E. Apparently the previous category for latched hook rugs was only available for youth; now it’s available for all. And if I’m thinking about entering future latched hook rug projects at locales…