Beginners add the lila fretz book 5 95 below to your order for excellent illustrations and advice for hooking your first rug each traditional rug hooking kit includes pattern with generous edge allowance and machine serged edge instructions and photo beautiful hand dyed and as is wool binding tape and a re usable vinyl zipper storage bag.
How to make a rug hooking pattern.
Something i didn t do but highly suggest to do before you cut the burlap burlap frays quickly.
The fabric looks like a grid with square shaped holes just large enough for you to insert the end of the hook.
So when that happens i draw the pattern freehand or use things from around the house like.
Fold an edge over one or two times and whipstitch around the edge until secure.
Decide what you want to back your rug hooked pillow with.
The hook will need to go under and through.
This will help.
Buying the pattern doesn t make sense because i ll only be incorporating a few of the original elements into my rug design.
Repeat on all for sides to bind the edges of the rug push your hook through a square.
Supplies 4 canvas stretcher bars i chose 18 inch carpet nail strips to cover the canvas stretcher small tack nails to attach the carpet strip to the canvas old pieces of towels to cover the nails monk s cloth pattern feel free to download the one i made carbon paper and sharpie to trace the.
Read the instructions for the rug.
Begin hooking the rug.
Purchase a latch hooked rug kit.
Gather your supplies to turn your rug hooking patterns into a pillow.
Learn which colors are represented by which symbols on the chart.
Sort out the cut yarn pieces by color.
Begin at the lower left hand corner or start at the lower right hand corner if.
Drawing rug hooking patterns.