Benches
Benches are a great way to display your hand hooked rugs without walking on them. Rest your feet on a warm textile bench top. Below are a few benches I have constructed out of hand-hooked rugs and fancy legged painted bench bases.
Footstools
Before I became allergic to wool, I taught many Footstool Workshops. I constructed small funky footstool bases for the class kits. Participants got a head start hooking their pieces before class. During the 3-day workshop we upholstered, painted and assembled the footstools.
Klimt Inspired Ottoman
Hooking for Habitat Cube
Back in 2008, Terri Schaefer from In the Wool, created a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity. She challenged rug hooking designers to create a small house pattern. The rug hooking community responded and submitted a wide variety of house designs spanning from a tree house, house boat, ice shack and more. Terri sold the patterns through her shop in St. Croix Fall, WI. Part of the proceeds went to Habitat for Humanity. I chose 5 house designs from the collection and Terri combined them to make a pattern to cover a Kim Nixon Cubed Footstool. My challenge was to meld one house design into another to create my Hooking for Habitat Cube.
