Working from twenty years’ experience as a rug hooker, studio owner, and teacher, Deanne Fitzpatrick
shares her sources of inspiration, work habits, ideas about creativity and design, and helpful guidelines
for creating beautiful, expressive rugs. Practical suggestions for hooking houses, landscapes, seasons, stories, and people are accompanied by the artist’s insight into tapping creativity and learning how to
make art from life. Tips for choosing colours, experimenting with texture, preparing a backing,
transferring a design, and achieving realistic depictions are interspersed with passages on artistic
inspiration and process. Best of all, over 80 striking colour photographs of the author’s own projects
and techniques provide readers with excellent reference points for turning their own experiences into magnificent rugs.
Rug-hooking artist Deanne Fitzpatrick is renowned worldwide for her stunning rugs and patterns. Her work is in permanent exhibits at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Museum of Civilization, among
others, and she has made frequent radio and television appearances. Deanne is also the author of East
Coast Rug-hooking Designs and Hook Me a Story. She lives in Amherst, Nova Scotia.