Welcome to the blue tulip woolery s rug hooking website.
How to make hand hooked wool rugs.
Begin hooking the rug.
Put your hook down through a hole in the burlap backing and catch the piece of wool pulling it up thru the burlap.
Buy supplemental yarn in the same weight as the yarn in the package in the colors you need to make the modifications.
Rod method 1 make loops with a coordinating colour of rug binding probably what was used on the back to finish the rug and sew them along the top of the rug attaching them to the back just below the area where you whipped and directly on the rug binding used to finish off the rug.
Deanne has a 60 minute how to hook rugs video.
Place your rug hook design face up and lay your two back pieces face down on top of your rug hook design.
Cut a strip of wool cloth about one quarter an inch wide and about eight to twelve inches long.
Begin at the lower left hand corner or start at the lower right hand corner if you are left handed and take a string of the first color.
I hope you enjoy looking at the hand hooked rugs kits hand dyed wool and needle felted creations that are on the following pages.
Loop or fold the yarn around the base of the hook beneath the swinging latch.
Here is a free clip from her how to hook rugs video where she shows you how to hook a rug available at http.
Hold the rug hook in the hand you write with and position it over the top of the frame.
The back pieces should overlap a few inches at the center.
Bring your other hand under the frame while holding onto your first strip of fabric.
Put the hook through a hole in the burlap wrap the wool around the hook on the underside of the burlap and pull the end of the wool up through the hole.
Imagine the modifications you could make to the design.
Visit a craft store to examine the kits available that include a hook yarn and a printed background to make a rug.
Poke the hook through to the back of your base fabric and pull up one end of the strip of fabric in your other hand.
Take a strip of wool and hold it underneath your pattern.
Fill in the rug by working the outlines first.
Pin layers together at edges.
Take your hook holding it in your hand as you would a pencil.
Buy a blank hooking background and yarn to invent your own design.
Hooking rugs is the most rewarding craft i believe i have ever learned.
Customers ask why can they buy a supposedly hand hooked rug up the street for a fraction of the cost compared to what they see in my shop and i explain that those rugs are made in china using goodness knows what possibly a machine whereas the rugs in my shop and other local venues are selling the traditional handmade craft as our grandparents would have constructed.