Show ON 7 THE aho HOME M E FRON 1 eu RUTH WYET HERE ERE is a hooked hearth rug that may some day grow up to room size the turquoise flowers and red cherries in the alternate squares are from dyed pieces of the old cream colored wool blankets twelve inch squares of burlap overcast around the edge made the foundation pieces patterns for the repeat design were cut 2 OOK BURLAP SQUARES HEM AND from paper and the burlap was marked by drawing around these with wax crayon loops of fabric strips were drawn through with a steel rug hook red was used for the curved lines shown at the upper left tones of brown for the flower and gray for the cherry background mixed colors for the rest of the design NOTE mrs spears ars has bas prepared a special pattern for the rug in sketch with detailed directions for beginners so even if you have never made a hooked rug you can start now making squares for a rug of any size you wish book 7 in the series of homemaking booklets contains 31 of these sketches with instruction instruction text also descriptions 0 of the series send your order to MRS RUTH WYETH SPEARS bedford hills new york drawer 10 enclose 10 cents for book no 7 a and rid lo 10 cents for rug pattern name address |