Stripping and Hooking

Those of you with your minds in the gutter will be disappointed to find out the title referred to a new hobby of mine involving wool. Wait, that still doesn't clear things up, does it?

When Bob and I drove across the country to move to Washington, we stopped in Colorado Springs to visit one of my dearest friends, Robin Ruzicka, who is staying with her parents while her husband is in Korea for a year. Robin's mom, Bobbie, teaches me a new craft almost every time I visit.

This time, she taught me rug hooking. It's a wonderfully fun process where you start with yards of wool, shred those into tiny little wool strips, and use this sort of dental tool to work into a design on monk's cloth. The picture above is my first project.

It's something I'd like to keep doing, but it's super expensive. Wool is around $40 a yard...
I'm thinking of doing the unit patch from each of Bob's units. I should get started on those now instead of 15 years down the road when I've got to play catch up.

Hook on, friends.