Rug Hooking for the Holidays, Thursday live: Episode 169

Good morning from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Deanne, I love the Christmas rug you’re working on. And Darla, your rugs look good!

I’m curious that you many use wool in your rugs. I recently finished your kit Poppies on the Edge of Town, which used a lot of cloth strips. Two questions:
1. Is hooking with cloth something you are moving away from?
2. What are the main differences between cloth and wool in the finished product? e.g. is cloth better for certain design aspects of a rug?

p.s. Your Thursday live from the studio videos are the best part of my week!!

Hello from south Texas. Here for the winter from Ontario. Love the Thursday Live but missed last week as we didn’t have any wifi. Will try and find it now. Keeps me in touch as I don’t have any rug Hooking cohorts here.
Darla’s rugs are beautiful.
Love the way your Christmas one is coming along.

Hello Deanne,
You look fabulous. It looks like you’ve lost a lot of weight. I’m hooking little snowman faces rug mugs for my granddaughter. I started last year and she loved it. I hope all is well with you and yours!!!
Love ya,
Janet

It’s a joy to watch another Thursday Live in Calgary, where we woke up to snow covering everything again.
Darla your rugs are terrific! Thank you for showing them.
I’m too slow at it to be hooking for Christmas, although I did have ambitious dreams of it. I’m working on a big (for me) rug inspired by the one of Deanne’s I did with wildflowers at the front and mountains in the back. I’ve done the bottom, which is 24’ X 8” of wild flowers. It is my first drawn by me and will be taller than it is wide. I will post it eventually.