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Ditch the color wheel and learn real skills that that you will learn in this course.  You DO NOT need to have a “knack for it.”  I can teach you the skills you need.

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Practical Color Planning & Virtual Dye Class

PCP & VDC are premium courses that need constant upgrading. Your questions help me to determine the direction of the course. If you cannot attend live, be sure to add a question to the Questions Area.

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All members of the following courses are invited:
The Rug Hooking Journey [TRHJ]
Practical Color Planning for Rug Hookers [PCP]
Virtual Dye Class [VDC]

Mark your calendar. I host a Q&A Office Hours every 5th Tuesday for members of this course and for the Virtual Dye Class. Watch your email for the Zoom link.

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Remember coloring? That’s color planning. What color goes where? There’s no DMC chart and no written instructions for most patterns. Where do you begin? Don’t be held prisoner by indecision or give in to copying. No one else can hook your version of the rug.

In the next few lessons, I will teach you some methods that will guide you through the color planning process. Creativity for me is often triggered by doing “work,” a systematic method or procedure that gets me in the zone.

Remember to have fun, give up control, turn the internal editor off, and hook naked – as in the naked truth, without judgement. {grin} Decide today to stop worrying about what other people think. There is no right or wrong way to do this and the people who think there are real rules are missing out. Relax. Now let’s have fun!

Just as in rug hooking, there is no right or wrong way to absorb these lessons. Print out each lesson’s PDF before you watch the video or print it after. They will be in the Lesson Bonus section at the end of each lesson. Watch the lessons in order or jump around. Each lesson has a Complete button. Click that and the system will keep track of your progress. You can unmark a lesson as complete at any time also. It is a great way know what lessons you have not watched yet.

The “New” Color Planning Process

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Skip to the Prep Your Wool – YOUR COLOR PALETTE Section.

Lesson Downloads

The course syllabus for Practical Color Planning for Rug Hookers online course available at howtorughook.com
Syllabus
The Color Planning Checklist
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Overall Process

Introduction

Introduction

Do this first….. Mark your calendar. I host a Q&A Office Hours every 5th Tuesday for membe...
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Replays

Replays

Every 5th Tuesday of the month, I invite all members of this course and the Virtual Dye Class to com...
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Color Theory

Color Theory Introduction

Color Theory Introduction

What usually happens when you start a rug… Choose the color for one of the motifs, hook it. Ch...
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Value is More Important Than Color

Value is More Important Than Color

If you can get the value right in a rug, the color does not really matter. We all see color differen...
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The Color Wheel

The Color Wheel

While this course does not get deep into color theory, I will explain enough of the basics to improv...
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Color Relationships

Color Relationships

Create a sense of depth using color relationships.
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Seasonal Color

Seasonal Color

Did you know you are programmed each season for certain colors? Walk down any aisle in a store and p...
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Personal Color

Personal Color

Did you know you are programmed each season for certain colors? Walk down any aisle in a store and p...
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Bonus: Value is So Important

Bonus: Value is So Important

Learn more at Texture Samplers
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Prep Your Wool - YOUR COLOR PALETTE

Creating your Palette

Creating your Palette

Video updated 6/1/19
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Paint Brochures

Paint Brochures

Those beautiful brochures in the paint aisle have inspired me in the past to buy paint to paint a ro...
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Fabric & Wallpaper

Fabric & Wallpaper

What creates a mood or feeling more than a printed fabric or wallpaper? This professionally produced...
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How Textures Work

How Textures Work

Textured wool is simply wool that is not one solid color. It can be a plaid, stripe, check or some o...
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Floor Dump & Sort

Floor Dump & Sort

This is a method that improves with time. You need to practice. Skill is developed when you do not g...
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Color Personality

Color Personality

Color personality is one of the most important color planning lessons I teach. Applying this rule wi...
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Tips for Buying Wool

Tips for Buying Wool

I sure don’t need to teach you how to buy wool. I think it is embedded in our genes. When we see wha...
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Prep the pattern: YOUR CANVAS

Prepare Your Pattern

Prepare Your Pattern

Secure the outer edge There are a few things you need to do with your pattern before you start hooki...
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Value Planning

Value Planning

Creating a value study is the core of my color planning lesson for most rugs. If this is the only un...
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Value Study Part 1

Value Study Part 1

Going through the planning process takes some time, but if you don’t do it on paper, you will do it ...
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Value Study Part 2

Value Study Part 2

Once you have a black line drawing you can do a value study. Using just three values, light, medium ...
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Color Distribution

Color Distribution

The video for this lesson will take some time because I need to finalize some new rug pattern design...
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Backgrounds: SET THE TONE

Borders

Borders

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Let’s Paint

Let’s Paint

When you hook a portrait of an animal or person, you already have a background in your reference pho...
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Marry & Marbelize Wool

Marry & Marbelize Wool

While this lesson is primarily a dye lesson, I thought it was worthwhile to include it here because ...
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Make Major Decisions First

Make Major Decisions First

As in life, if you take care of the big decisions, the little ones take care of themselves. Identify...
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Ready to hook: THE PROCESS

Create a Wool Key

Create a Wool Key

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Start with the end — Whipping Yarn

Start with the end — Whipping Yarn

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Where to Start Hooking

Where to Start Hooking

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Use the Value Study

Use the Value Study

If you Created a Value Study (which works on a majority of rugs), you have a value study ready to go...
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Sometimes More is More

Sometimes More is More

I wrote this lesson very differently than the other lessons. Do you find this format useful? Would y...
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Pinch Test

Pinch Test

Have you ever hooked two wools side by side that you thought were very different only to have them b...
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Rip Out or Not Rip Out

Rip Out or Not Rip Out

When something is not right, you just want it gone, right? If you rip out your rug hooking too early...
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Case Studies: LEARN FROM OTHERS

Welcome Deer Hooked in Neutrals

Welcome Deer Hooked in Neutrals

Stacey White of Marthasville, MO is hooking Welcome Deer from Encompassing Designs.This is a recordi...
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Traditional Floral Pattern

Traditional Floral Pattern

[caption id="attachment_883" align="alignleft" width="234"] Color distribution, not actual colors[/c...
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Little House Case Study

Little House Case Study

This color plan is for Marcia, a student of the Color Planning Course and a student in my weekly stu...
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Overall Process

Introduction

Replays

Color Theory

Color Theory Introduction

Value is More Important Than Color

The Color Wheel

Color Relationships

Seasonal Color

Personal Color

Bonus: Value is So Important

Prep Your Wool - YOUR COLOR PALETTE

Creating your Palette

Paint Brochures

Fabric & Wallpaper

How Textures Work

Floor Dump & Sort

Color Personality

Tips for Buying Wool

Prep the pattern: YOUR CANVAS

Prepare Your Pattern

Value Planning

Value Study Part 1

Value Study Part 2

Color Distribution

Backgrounds: SET THE TONE

Borders

Let’s Paint

Marry & Marbelize Wool

Make Major Decisions First

Ready to hook: THE PROCESS

Create a Wool Key

Start with the end — Whipping Yarn

Where to Start Hooking

Use the Value Study

Sometimes More is More

Pinch Test

Rip Out or Not Rip Out

Case Studies: LEARN FROM OTHERS

Welcome Deer Hooked in Neutrals

Traditional Floral Pattern

Little House Case Study

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