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Article: Topeka woman shares quick and easy recipes that are favorites with her rug hooking group.
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- April 11, 2001
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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, ...