News, weekly blog posting from Della's Rug Hooking.

Another year has passed and another begun. Do you make new year resolutions? I haven't been in the practice of making resolutions. That would entail making goals and trying to stick to them. I'm good at this in business but not so much for myself perhaps.

My year end for my business is September of each year and having come from working 37 years in the corporate world, I've learned a thing or two and one thing that has stuck with me is strategic planning. If you don't outline where you...

Christmas is fast approaching, it will be all over before we know it. I'm going to take a break from blogging until the new year and wish each and every one of you a wonderful holiday. Enjoy your family, tell them you love them, relax and be in the moment. The next blog I'm planning for will be January 5th, 2020! Wow, that sounds so amazing, 2020. My 2020 is lining up to be very busy! I also have a couple of trips planned in February to add to things.

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You can see from the above picture, our cat, Mr Jaxon has been up to no good once again. Sitting chill-axing in my favorite chair, not a care in the world. Notice anything behind him that seems not to belong? hmmmmmm

It was a busy week last week, so much going on. We began the week on Monday with a wonderful group of rug hookers, learning from Donna Legere, how to make our very own 'personal plaid'. Donna I think will be busy teaching this to lots of you as it...

December 4th, Wednesday is International Rug Hooking Day. I hope you will be able to pull a loop or two in celebration of this art form. A good friend of mine (Lucy Richards) messaged me asking what I was doing on International Rug Hooking day and I said probably hooking. She asked if she could come to my studio to hook with me. Well of course you can and I'll put the word out for anyone else who would like to join us. If you would like to join us please...

The feature picture above is the Christmas stocking my daughter designed and picked the colors. I have lined the stocking down to the fin part. I am happy to have this project completed. I wasn't able to attend the Bluenose workshop but I have managed to finish hooking my leaf pattern. I'm going to make this into a pillow.

Last week in the studio we had a local celebrity, Janice Boiduk, Tapestry Artist join our Tuesday group. Janice lives 3 doors down...