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.
How to make a rug hooking pattern.
This will help.
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.
Begin at the lower left hand corner or start at the lower right hand corner if.
The fabric looks like a grid with square shaped holes just large enough for you to insert the end of the hook.
Learn which colors are represented by which symbols on the chart.
Buying the pattern doesn t make sense because i ll only be incorporating a few of the original elements into my rug design.
Begin hooking the rug.
Purchase a latch hooked rug kit.
Repeat on all for sides to bind the edges of the rug push your hook through a square.
The hook will need to go under and through.
By filling the grid with different colors of yarn you can create a pattern.
So when that happens i draw the pattern freehand or use things from around the house like.
Decide what you want to back your rug hooked pillow with.
Fold an edge over one or two times and whipstitch around the edge until secure.
Drawing rug hooking patterns.
Gather your supplies to turn your rug hooking patterns into a pillow.
Sort out the cut yarn pieces by color.
A lot of the time i ll see a design online i like but that i want to adapt to suit my taste.