How To Proddy Rug Hooking

Skipping a few holes in the backing pull the tail through.

How to proddy rug hooking.

For other designs you may prefer cutting the peices 3 long x 1 2 wide. A hoop or frame is used to keep an open weave foundation fabric traditionally burlap stretched taut. See more ideas about rug hooking proddy rugs hooked rugs primitive. Push your hook down through the hole the tail is in and pull the next strip up through.

Making a flower proddy pin is an easy introduction to rug hooking. Here is a photo tutorial to help along with the written instructions. Learn about the different proddy tools and various proddy techniques while watching shepherd create a bouquet of colorful posies. How to use a spring hook if making a proddy picture mat thick wool fabric is perfect it gives your rug body and cutting your peices 2 long x 1 2 wide allows the peices to stand up firm keeping the picture in shape.

Push the first strip to the side. A blog devoted to the art craft of rug hooking wool dyeing fine sewing and the random thoughts of a fiber artist. Using your rug hook pull one end of the strip through the fabric very close to your flower center. Like all old fashioned crafts rug hooking is fundamentally low tech and simple.

Proddy is an old fashioned british variation of rug hooking using shaped pieces of wool fabric lifted up with a hook wool prod or prodding clasp. This technique is perfect for creating beautiful three dimensional blossoms. If the material is thin as in cottons cut them 3 long x 1 wide. Now you have your first strip in.

Take one of your proddy strips. Narrow strips of wool fabric are pulled up through the mesh of this foundation to form a series of little loops one by one forming a uniform pile. In this in depth video gene shepherd presents instructions on how to create beautiful proddy mats.