Article: Topeka woman shares quick and easy recipes that are favorites with her rug hooking group.

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By LISA M. SODDERS

The Capital-Journal

About once a month, Judy Cripps and 15 to 20 of her fellow rug hookers get together for a marathon rug-hooking session. Food is always involved and the recipes below are some of the group's favorites, she said.

Cripps, a lifelong Topekan, has a rug hooking business, Rustic Rugs (273-2093). She designs and makes traditional hooked rugs with strips of 100 percent wool fabric and also sells rug hooking supplies and teaches classes. The craft dates back to the 1800s, but is better known on the coasts, she said. Older rugs from that time were made with whatever materials the women had on hand --- wool, silk or cotton. Very few examples survive today, ...

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