When your rug is complete you can roll two inches of the excess burlap into the twill tape and hand sew it along the backside of your rug.
How to rug hook for beginners.
Basic equipment stitches and tips.
You can sew by hand black cotton twill tape around the outside edges of 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.
Deanne has a 60 minute how to hook rugs video.
Hook right up to the twill tape or sew it on after the rug is hooked.
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Loop or fold the yarn around the base of the latch hook beneath the swinging latch.
Always begin at the lower left hand corner or start at the lower right hand corner if you are left handed.
Hold your hook in the hand you use to hold your pencil and the strip of wool in the other hand.
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Begin hooking the rug.
After exploring the rug hooking journey you are ready for more in depth courses such as the practical color planning for rug hookers what colors go where or the virtual dye class.
Bring the first end right up through then continue the hooking pulling it up loop by loop.
Holding your hook in the hand you write with gently push the hook into a hole in the backing just inside the drawn line of the pattern.
Loop or fold the yarn around the base of the hook beneath the swinging latch.
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.
Take your first strip of wool in the hand you don t write with and hold it under the surface of the backing.
This beginner course is still being developed and is available only inside the rug hooking journey.