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The queen of the craft Amy Oxford offers crafters a one-stop punch needle resource to keep at your fingertips!

This is the guide you’ll keep throughout your punch needle adventures for years to come.

Enjoy Amy’s amazingly effectiveinstruction, tips, inspiration, and in-depth info about every aspect of enjoying punch needle rug hooking.

Create her colorful contemporary pomegranate project and ginkgo project, and learn to skillfully turn your work into long-lasting treasures like wall hangings, chair pads, rugs, cushions, stair runners, and whatever else your imagination can dream up.

Enrich your work with fascinating info on things the other books don’t include: the top secrets about the craft that beginners need, and careful step by step photo instructions for doing it rightfrom choosing your first project’s materials, to creating a lovely result the first time, finishing techniques, mounting, adding complexity, and making your own designs.

Enjoy the history of the craft of rug punching, gorgeous photos of works by today’s biggest names, fun interviews with top makers, how to handle the unexpected, and much more.

[AuthorName]By Amy Oxford[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]Amy Oxford is the founder of the Oxford Rug Hooking School and is a nationally renowned instructor. She’s been teaching the craft since 1986, and her teacher certification program has over the past three decades resulted in over 130 Oxford Certified Instructors in the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, the UAE, and Japan.Amy is the inventor, manufacturer, and distributor of the Oxford Punch Needle and is the founder of Red Clover Rugs, a rug hooking shop and mail order business. Amy has been licensed by the Shelburne Museum to make adaptations of their antique rugs, and has helped catalog the museums renowned collection of historic hooked rugs. She is the author of seven books including the original bestsellerPunch Needle Rug Hooking; Intermediate & Advanced Punch Needle Rug Hooking; and four volumes of Hooked Rugs Today. amyoxford.com[/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]450 color & b/w images, patterns, and diagrams[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]Your Complete Resource to Learn & Love the Craft[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]450 color & b/w images, patterns, and diagrams[/ColorPattern]