Cat's Paw Rug

Cat's Paw, 2011

I was reading Gene Shepherd's rug hooking blog and he had several articles on cat's paw rugs. The cat's paw design is made of concentric circles or near circles. My design uses circles and my own dyed wool. I used his technique for hooking circles by starting with a tail at 12 o'clock, then a loop at 4:30, followed by a loop at 8 o'clock, and then the final tail in with the first tail at 12 o'clock.