Welcome to the website for Fair Oaks Wool Designs – my studio where
I create rug hooking, applique or penny rugs, and punch needle designs. This website is still a work in
progress so please forgive the roughness as I figure out WordPress.
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Tracy Kellen, Owner/Designer at Fair Oaks Wool Designs My rug hooking journey started in 2002, when my mother showed me a new craft she had learned in a class at a local fiber. I was hooked the moment I tried it (pun intended)! In…
All images were hooked or punched by me. Designers of patterns are listed below pictures
My favorite way to finish a rug is to whip the edge with wool yarn over cording. Here is the method I use to whip a rug. I steam it on both sides, starting on the back side then turning it over and doing…
I had a dye day on Monday of this week. I want to hook a pattern of an orange striped cat’s face but did not have any wools that would work for the cat’s base color, nor the stripes. I started out with 2…
Since we are under a Stay At Home order in Minnesota I have been working on finishing some punch needle designs. The smaller flower on the left – I glued a patterned scrapbook paper sheet to a piece of light cardboard then glued the…