If you like Gene's YouTube videos, you're going to love the expanded information available here in the 58 IRgC videos!

Thank you for visiting the home page of the Internet Rug Camp!

Is it easier for you to learn hooking concepts when you see them demonstrated?

Would you like your own personal teacher 24/7?

Do you have questions about rug hooking?

If the answer to any of those questions is Yes, then The Internet Rug Camp is for you.  For pennies a day you can have access to:

Expanded blog coverage - All the information that Gene posts on his popular blog will be here, only expanded with additional comments and photos especially designed for camp members.   Subscribers will also be able to participate with comments and questions in the ongoing discussion that goes with each day's post.

Instructional Video Library Open 24/7
Gene's ultimate goal is to build an expansive library of instructional and informational videos on all aspects of rug hooking.  Each lesson is designed to help you master all the aspects needed to create beautiful hand hooked rugs.  These videos remain on file so that you can access them any time you want.

Available now for your viewing pleasure:

Alternate Loop/Beac Stitch

Alternate Whipped Edge/Bilingual

Ann-Marie Littenberg's Rug Hooking Rules

Cambria

Corners and Colors:  Double Cross Rug

Crocheting a Hooked Rug

Diane Stoffel Interview

Discussing Scrolls

Drawing the Double Cross Pattern

Drawing the Pomegrande Pattern

Dump Dyes

Dyeing a Black Eyed Susan

Dyeing a Dip Dye

Dyeing a Lazy Swatch

Dyeing a Traditional Six Value Swatch

Elizabeth Black Interview

Fingering/Feathering

Heather Ritchie: Hooked Rug Story Telling

Heather Ritchie:  Teaching the Blind to Hook

Holiday Greeting form Gene 2010

Holiday Pudding

Hooking A Checkerboard

Hooking a Diagonal Line

Hooking Pancake, Ordered Wool

Interview w/Jane Olson

Lettering Without Lines

Marbleized Wool

Noah's Arc

Over-dyeing Textures

Pancake Ordered Wool Dye Session

Persian Part 1: Picking Your Colors

Persian Part 2: Correcting a Pattern

Persian Part 3:  Hooking the Corrections

Pickering Oak - Trouble Shooting

Prodded Pillow Fringe

Pordding a Black-Eyed Susan

Pordding a Realistic Lilac

Prodding a Three Dimensional Dahlia

Prodding a Three Dimensional Rose

Proddy Frames for Traditional Hooking

Purposeful Spot Dyeing: Corn

Rug Hooks & How to Use Them

Sauder Village 2010/No Narration

Special Hello from Anaheim

Special Invitation from Oz

Surprise Refrigerator Dye

Susan Feller on Frakturs

Susan Quicksall Interview

Traditional Proddy

Transitional Dyeing

Twisting a Fringed Edge

Ugly Wool: Antique Black

Waldoboro Hooking: Flower Center

Welcome video

Whipping the Edge of a Round Rug

Whipping the Edge of a Rug

Wool Dyeing Session

Zipper Stitch Technique

New videos are added every few weeks

Video Scripts Available for the Hearing Impaired

Free Patterns: The IRgC will also a selection of free pattern downloads. Each pattern will be supported by blog and video coverage so you will have a variety of information available to you when you decide to make your own version.

Desktops & Screen Savers
Just for fun, Gene often shares some of his favorite photos.  You are welcome to use them, as he does, as desktops, screen-savers and wallpapers for the computer.

There is a spot for you at The Internet Rug Camp.

To join the Internet Rug Camp, begin the registration process at the entrance area to the right.  If you are not a Pay Pal user, you can sign up for that as a part of the general camp registration.  The IRgC costs $36 for a 12 month subscription.   If you have questions, contact Gene Shepherd at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .