Seattle artist Andie Solar got hooked on rug hooking and now it's her full time gig. Her website Myra & Jean has classes and kits to get you started in punch needle.

“Traditional rug hooking is done with a crochet hook, so with a hook you pull up loops. That started in the 1830s. What we do is called punch needle rug hooking, and we punch down,” she explained.

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“If you have anything to do with fiber, you know who she is,” said Yvonne Buus, who runs a rug-hooking design business in Nampa, Idaho and has written a punch needle book. Now Oxford has her ...