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 ...

Katie Hartner has added making rug hooking patterns to her Tyler quilting business. She bought A Nimble Thimble here about 13 years ago and recently acquired Woolley Fox from Barbara Carroll, who ...

(Pictured above) Linda Nolte, owner of Cottage Sampler, Beth Bellairs, Marge Huftalin and Linda Patterson, instructors at the Carriage House Primitives in St. Ansgar behind the Sampler, display some ...

Rug hooking fits into the “waste not, want not” mentality. Using recycled wool from clothing and remnants from textile mills, rug hooking was once common in households along the eastern seaboard in ...

CORNWALL, Vt. (WCAX) - Amy Oxford is hooked on rug hooking. “We call it instant gratification with wool,” she laughed. She owns The Oxford Company in Cornwall, a one-stop shop for rug hooking. They ...

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 ...

Some people retire to play golf or travel. Fritz Mitnick left her job because she was hooked on another pastime — literally. Mitnick does rug hooking, a craft where rugs are made by pulling loops of ...

Michele Micarelli loves being a hooker. It’s lucrative, utilizes her imagination and allows her to meet many and varied people. No, it’s not what you may think. The 56-year-old Westville resident ...