Locker Hook Rug Making

Find all the supplies you need for your next latch hook or locker hook project here in this collection from joann.

Locker hook rug making.

In talking to other stitchers a good many of us have a fabric stash and we don t know how we will ever use it without a. Follow the tutorial of the basic preparation to gather all the materials you need prepare the edge of the hooking rug canvas cut the fabrics into 2 cm wide strips. Afghan aluminium crochet hook knitting needle hand knit tool with threading hole. Yarn is threaded through the eye and the hook is used to pull strips of fabric through the.

You are limited only by the fabrics available. A simple easy way to handmake a very soft rug using the locker hook technique. You will need about 1 1 2 yards of fabric stripped up in 1 inch strips to make this project which are not included. It s an easy skill to pick up and you can finish a small piece in an evening.

Using strips of fabric and a large count canvas you can make rugs ornaments book covers trivets and much more. 3 75 mesh rug canvas 60 wide aluminum locker hook 5 6 skeins of 185 yard 6oz. Locker hooking uses a rug hooking canvas similar to that used for latch hooking but the tool and technique are different. The sky is the limit when it comes to your design you can follow an ornate pattern do a simple geometric pattern or just randomly use up scraps.

Yushen 20 x 20 inches blank rug locker hooking mesh canvas kit with latch hook tool supplies crafts. Get it as soon as thu oct 1. In the early days women sometimes substituted strips of cotton fabric for the more costly strands of wool for locker hooked rugs which were quite similar in appearance to. A locker hook looks like a hybrid of a crochet hook and a darning needle with the hook on one end and a large eye on the other.

Free shipping on your first order shipped by amazon. Locker hook is a hand craft that turns scraps of fabric and twine in to coasters rugs bracelets bags or art pieces. Download the free pattern for the welcome hone locker hook rug by clicking the above photo. Locker hooking 101 kit includes rug backing to make a 9 x 9 trivet instructions 4 ply 100 cotton yarn sample fabric strips to showing how to attach them without sewing and an aluminum locker hook.

Locker hook rug. Acrylic yarn i sued the softest i could find tapestry needle scissors it took me 5 days lots of movie watching to make this 57 x21 rug for my guest room. In the 1940s americans enjoyed locker hooking too but due to the high cost of the specialty yarn the craft of locker hooking never seemed to become a widely embraced hobby. 4 3 out of 5 stars 16.