how-to techniques – Page 2 – Association of Traditional Hooking Artists

Hooking a Sky

How to organize your wool strips to hook a painted sky.

How to create motion and texture with the use of color.

Practice meshing or zippering to blend rows of loops together.

Use the grid method of enlarging a photo when designing a rug.

Learn how to hook light and dark shadows of snow in your rug.

Hook Block 5 using a wool plaid material.

Learn how to incorporate elements of Zentangle into your rug.

Follow the steps to hook your motifs using a layered style of hooking.