Art of Hooked Rug Landscapes

Sky and Water, Trees and Hills, Barns and Buildings

Artist Molly Colegrove has a love affair with barns and the landscapes that surround them. Take a walk with her through her beloved New York state and learn many of her tricks and techniques for reproducing a rural landscape in wool. Molly uses wool strips, wool yarn along with many alternative fibers and techniques to hook her lovely pieces and she shares her hard-earned knowledge with you. Do you want to use materials other than wool and techniques other than hooking? Molly incorporates quilting, roving, felting, beads, embroidery, and more. Capturing clouds and skies, water and fields, trees and fields—Molly has her own approach to translating a landscape into wool. Come along and learn how she does it!

Molly Colegrove is a native of upstate New York and has never strayed far from her birthplace. She learned her love of fiber arts from her mother. She earned a Studio Arts degree, but upon graduating realized that there weren’t a lot of jobs in that field. Thus began the journey that led her to the wonderful world of rug hooking, where she has become a widely recognized and sought-after teacher. She hooks and teaches from her home studio in Newark, New York

128pp, soft cover, color photos

from Rug Hooking Magazine