Joy of Hooking (With Yarn!)
Writers Digest Awards writes: The book might be a revelation to many readers, especially women. Rug hooking is a absorbing hobby women in particular can undertake. Eminently practical in its treatment of the subject, the well organized and written how-to book explains what rug hooking is, its traditions and background, how to do it, and then projects beginners can try to do. Step-by-step instructions, with handy pictures, look like they would enable readers to achieve considerable successes. Needed equipment is listed. Using yarn to hook poems, sayings, and aphorisms into rugs is another feature extolled. The gallery of rug hookings is colorful and impressive. A valuable 28-minute beginners' guide DVD is incorporated inside the book. Overall, the book is a fine introduction to rug hooking that should hook readers into trying out this avocation. --Writers Digest Awards Self Publishing Awards, 2011