ROCK SPRINGS — Mary Huff provided instruction on making rag rugs during the Busy Hands Section meeting of the Woman's Club of Rock Springs.

Making stuff with your own hands can be very rewarding. Not only do you get the satisfaction of being creative, but research shows do-it-yourself hobbies relieve stress.

Lippitt was inspired the moment her friend’s mother showed her one of the rugs. “It reminded me of how rugs looked in the 1800s,” she said, “and when we would go antiquing where I would ...

I looked around for some way to make extra money. I saw an ad for a loom for making rag rugs. I talked to my mother-in-law. She said she knew how to thread a loom and how one pulled strips of rags ...

Participants can learn the tradition of grain painting wood at a one-day workshop scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012 from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m. at the Mennonite Heritage Center, 565 Yoder Road, Harl… ...

Rag-rug maker Dee Nierman lets it be known right at the top of a conversation that, at 87 years old, she is holding up as well or better than her indomitable, fourth-generation loom built more ...