Judy Taylor Books

Rug Hooker’s Guide to the YARNIVERSE! is the perfect sequel to The NEW Joy of Hooking (With Yarn!). This book takes you beyond the basics of hooking with yarn, including hooking fine detail, realistic shading, primitive rug hooking, working with natural colors, the benefits of handspun yarn, with hundreds of pictures and illustrations, and dozens of templates to practice your new skills.

Winner of the eLit Book Awards, 2014

192 pages

Reviews:

Anyone interested in rug hooking with yarn will likely find this book a treasure trove of how-to information on dyeing and design techniques including realistic shading and creating portraits. The practical and easy-to-follow instructions, well detailed and buttressed by a series of descriptive pictures, can aid readers to develop this skill and hobby. The oversized paperback is filled with many colorful and striking examples of rugs which show many different designs. The cover is clever and inventive, especially with using “Yarniverse” in the title, and it’s bound to attract attention. (Writers Digest)

This fun, colorful book– a follow-up to the author’s previous title, The NEW Joy of Hooking With Yarn!— presents techniques for hooking with yarn that go beyond the basics; various methods of dyeing yarn, using handspun and natural yarns, getting fine detail and more. Six projects, with full-size patterns and detailed instructions and tips, give readers a chance to try out the techniques they’ve learned. The book includes a refresher on basic rug hooking techniques, and 11 featured artist sections that look at the work of rug hookers from across Canada (and the U.S.), with even more examples and creative ideas for using yarn in hooked rugs (Rug Hooking Magazine)

Her latest book, Rug Hooker’s Guide to the YARNIVERSE! proves she has inspired many others to enjoy this craft. Judy invited at least eleven other yarn-hooking experts to share their creative process with photos of their rugs intermixed with her ideas and instruction. I enjoyed reading everyone’s process as well as Judy’s instructions for repair and refinishing of old rugs. Judy’s dyeing techniques bring her complex designs to life. The book includes several small projects with templates for the reader to try the different dye and hook techniques presented.  (Black Sheep Newsletter)