Editor's note: This is the fifth story in an ongoing series about interesting hobbies in and around the Norwalk area. If you have an interesting hobby you would like profiled, contact Staff Writer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Karl and Mary Jo Gimber, it started when they bought a hooked mat at a Bucks County estate auction. “It turns out that the woman who hooked it was there and she came over and introduced herself,” ...

Rug hooking as a fine art nearly disappeared but was saved through the teachings of Pearl McGowen and the writings of William Wintrhop Kent. By the 1940s, it had turned into a hobby that continues to ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Originally a pastime for sailors on long-distance voyages in the 1800s, rug hooking was brought into popular culture around the 1940s by Pearl McGown in Massachusetts. Her ...

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 ...

Amy Oxford holds one of the foreign-language rug-hooking books that feature the Oxford Punch Needle. Photo by Anne Wallace Allen/VTDigger CORNWALL – It was a Friday in 2017 when Amy Oxford, a fiber ...

Dear Helaine and Joe: This hooked rug measures 30 by 38 inches. A label on its back reads “Mountaineer’s Cabin,” with an address of Heritage Rugs, 54 Irving Ave., Providence, R.I. The fabric is in ...

Funny animal patterns such as panda, soccer, dinosaur, sunflower, owl, smiling face, and star etc. We will continue to design new patterns. Latch Hook Rug Canvas: This rug making kit has a colorful ...