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	<title type="text">Cindi Gay | Rughookology|</title>
	<subtitle type="text">It&#039;s an art AND a science: Learn rug hooking online with Live! and recorded lessons, buy supplies and join a community of &#34;your&#34; people</subtitle>

	<updated>2025-09-17T08:37:23Z</updated>

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		<author>
			<name>Cindi Gay</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Sauder Village Rug Hooking Exhibit]]></title>
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		<id>https://rughookology.com/?p=7543</id>
		<updated>2025-09-17T07:49:58Z</updated>
		<published>2025-07-30T14:35:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="News" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Register your rugs for Sauder Village.  This picture is during 2008's show and tell.  This is where you eat breakfast if you are staying at the Heritage Inn.]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Cindi Gay</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Rug hooking the background on Primitive Roses stair riser]]></title>
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		<id>https://rughookology.com/?p=7495</id>
		<updated>2025-08-29T02:44:51Z</updated>
		<published>2025-07-27T11:27:00Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Rug hooking the background is easy if you start early and break the area into shapes.  Find out how.]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Cindi Gay</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Chicken Hook a Doodle Do rug hooking pattern]]></title>
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		<id>https://rughookology.com/?p=7304</id>
		<updated>2025-08-07T06:20:25Z</updated>
		<published>2025-07-23T11:16:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="Rug Patterns" /><category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="CHICKEN HOOK A DOODLE DO" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Chicken Hook a Doodle Do rug hooking pattern is now available.  A chicken with a hook in her wing surrounded with primitive roses and a border with lots of places for colors.]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Cindi Gay</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Rosenweeds Footstool Pattern]]></title>
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		<id>https://rughookology.com/?p=7280</id>
		<updated>2025-08-06T09:49:01Z</updated>
		<published>2025-07-22T15:29:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="Rug Patterns" /><category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="footstools" /><category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="ROSENWEEDS" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ideas on how to hook the footstool rug hooking pattern, Rosenweeds, designed by Cindi Gay.]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Cindi Gay</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[ATHA Education Fund rug is hooked by nine different teachers]]></title>
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		<id>https://rughookology.com/?p=4570</id>
		<updated>2025-09-17T08:37:23Z</updated>
		<published>2025-07-22T13:48:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="News" /><category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="Rug Camps/Workshops" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Be sure to pick up your raffle tickets for this wonderful rug. Nine teachers contributed to this project. Stay tuned for the latest news, meet fellow rug hookers, and check out our new stair risers display. Rug Hooking Teachers Behind the ATHA Education Fund Rug First row Gail Dufresne Cindi Gay Frank Bielec Second row...]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Cindi Gay</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Simplify Stair Riser Rug Hooking Pattern]]></title>
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		<id>https://rughookology.com/?p=7128</id>
		<updated>2025-08-06T09:51:05Z</updated>
		<published>2025-07-18T13:18:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="Rug Patterns" /><category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="SIMPLIFY" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Simplify stair riser rug hooking pattern designed by Cindi Gay, includes quantities for the amounts of wool you will need to hook the pattern.]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Cindi Gay</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Introducing Chicken Doodle Do rug hooking pattern]]></title>
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		<id>https://rughookology.com/?p=7050</id>
		<updated>2025-08-06T08:51:32Z</updated>
		<published>2025-07-10T12:08:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="Rug Patterns" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Cindi Gay introduces a new rug hooking pattern.  Hook a "Chicken-Hook-a-Doodle-Do" rug!]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Cindi Gay</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[To dye or not to dye]]></title>
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		<id>http://www.rughookology.com/blog/?p=38</id>
		<updated>2025-07-31T01:43:09Z</updated>
		<published>2025-07-06T17:40:00Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I received a question and thought I would answer it in a new post. I am a newbie to rug hooking, and have a slightly silly question. Do you buy undyed wool? Or do you over dye? New rug hookers are often frustrated when their rugs do not look the way they want them to....]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Cindi Gay</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[You. . .Can Hook Rugs by Pearl McGown]]></title>
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		<id>https://rughookology.com/?p=6863</id>
		<updated>2025-09-17T08:02:01Z</updated>
		<published>2025-07-01T22:18:00Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[One of my favorite passages from Pearl&#8217;s book: Many women have said to me: &#8220;I&#8217;ve always wanted to hook a rug and I&#8217;m going to some day.&#8221; But it is the woman who says: &#8220;I want to hook a rug. How shall I start?&#8221; that I am most interested in. The first is usually a...]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Cindi Gay</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Hooking a birch tree &#8211; let the wool do the work]]></title>
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		<id>https://rughookology.com/?p=4557</id>
		<updated>2025-09-02T07:59:24Z</updated>
		<published>2025-07-01T17:22:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="Rug Hooking eSchool" /><category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="birch bark" /><category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="pictorial rugs" /><category scheme="https://rughookology.com/" term="shagging" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I used my specially dyed birch bark wool to hook the birch tree. Just simple hooking here. I cut the darker part of the wool in a #5, the lighter in #7 and simply hooked it. I did change the shape a bit. I used to have a birch tree in our backyard. It was...]]></summary>

		
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