So when that happens i draw the pattern freehand or use things from around the house like.
How to make a rug hooking pattern.
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.
Begin hooking the rug.
The fabric looks like a grid with square shaped holes just large enough for you to insert the end of the hook.
Sort out the cut yarn pieces by color.
Learn which colors are represented by which symbols on the chart.
Read the instructions for the rug.
When you wrap the two ends of the cut yarn around the hook and pull the hook back through the first wrap you secure the yarn around the top of the square.
Decide what you want to back your rug hooked pillow with.
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.
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.
Repeat on all for sides to bind the edges of the rug push your hook through a square.
Something i didn t do but highly suggest to do before you cut the burlap burlap frays quickly.
The hook will need to go under and through.
A lot of the time i ll see a design online i like but that i want to adapt to suit my taste.
Begin at the lower left hand corner or start at the lower right hand corner if.
Purchase a latch hooked rug kit.
Drawing rug hooking patterns.