Loop or fold the yarn around the base of the hook beneath the swinging latch.
How to make a latch hook rug pattern.
Keeping the yarn in place slide the tool under a straight never twisted line in the rug canvas.
Pull the tool toward you so that the latch catches canvas.
Repeat on all for sides to bind the edges of the rug.
Draw your design on the graph paper.
Push your hook through a square.
Fold an edge over one or two times and whipstitch around the edge until secure.
By creating your own iron on paper you make a design you can transfer to your latch hook fabric.
Wrap a piece of pre cut rug yarn around the metal of the tool near its handle.
Grab both ends of the single piece of yarn and try to keep the ends together evenly.
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The hook will need to go under and through.
Choose a digital image that you want to make into a latch hooked rug then pixelate the image to the resolution that you want your rug to be.
Start with a piece of graph paper and blow it up in a copy machine until the grid is the same size as the grid of your latch hook fabric.
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If you are using photoshop go to filter and scroll down to pixelate and then select mosaic the more pixels in the image the lager the rug will be.
Begin hooking the rug.
Blank latch hook canvas latch hook yarn you can buy pre cut latch hook yarn but to save money i cut mine by hand 2.