You can create a custom rug from old T-shirts or knit sheets. Tips:1 Although the latch hook technique is extremely simple, this is a time-consuming project. The rug I made is 3×5 feet and I’d estimate that I spent about 40 hours on it altogether. But it cost me a lot less than it would to …
Top 10 Locker Hooking Tips: learn essential tips for beautiful, long lasting locker hooked projects and designs.
You guys, I have a newfound obsession. Latch hooking! It all started with a beautiful palette I had saved to my desktop while pinning inspiring color combinations – another new addiction as of late. I wanted to…
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Speedweve loom for darning socks, darning jeans and other clothes. Set includes Darning loom (14 hooks), Wooden disc (67 mm), Rectangular wooden platform and 2 latch hooks for lifting loops. Rectangular platform size 11 x 6 cm (4.3" x 2.3"). The wooden platform made from plywood. Speedweve darning loom with wooden platform has 14 hooks. Handcrafted darning loom for visible mending and repair clothing. The set contains 2 hooks for raising the loops(darner ladder hook). Speedweve with a rectangular wooden long surfaces. This design of the working surface allows you to create longer patches than on a round wooden disk. Rectangular platform size 11 x 6 cm (4.3" x 2.3"). The wooden part of the speedweve is made from plywood. With this Speedweve loom, you will be able to repair your favorite clothes. Darning loom for easy darn is truly a great gift! Speedweve darning loom is perfect for gift for mom and gift for her. With this darning tool, you will be able to repair your favorite clothes. In my second store you can choose your own wooden darning mushrooms: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DarningMushrooms?ref=seller-platform-mcnav§ion_id=33256109
...pull the locker hook through the loops...
I saw this book in Hobby Lobby one day, and it was calling my name..... It had a gorgeous hooked canvas journal book cover on the front...I waited and waited for awhile, then I caved in and bought it....Theresa Pulido is the rug hooking artist/ author, and she has a website devoted to locker hooking with videos, free patterns and gorgeous fabric strips. Locker hooking is a vintage method of rug hooking, where after you pull up 4-5 loops on a special long crochet hook with the hook at one end and a large needle eye at the other, you pull yarn through your loops and the loops are "locked" down to the canvas. They can't pull out. Here's what the needle looks like...Hobby Lobby has them.... For the "yarn" for hooking loops, you use fabric--you can use cotton fabric strips, you can use wool, and/or you can use a combination of fabric strips with specialty fibers, the possibilities are many. There are two sizes of rug canvas---5 mesh, and 3.75 mesh. The larger number mesh means that the holes to pull your loops through are smaller to the inch than the 3.75 canvas which has slightly larger holes. If you are wanting detail in your project, you would choose the smaller holed mesh, but honestly, I counted the squares per inch for both, and there's only one square difference between the two sizes. Hobby Lobby carries the larger, more common 3.75 mesh. You cut or tear fabric strips...1/2" width is the usual size used if you are using batik fabrics, and 3/4" is the size for all other fabrics. Batiks are wonderful because the print is the same on both sides. Here I've torn my fabric strips and wound them on little scraps of cardboard so I don't have to stop as much during my project, I've got lots of choices ready to use. If you use regular fabrics, then you will need to fold your strips in half because the print is only on one side of the fabric. There are several great YouTube videos that teach you how to join strips and tie up your loose ends as you work your way through a project, so a video is a better way to learn, I found for me. Theresa Pulido's website, Color Crazy, is another great way to learn how. Here is a basic idea of how to do it with still photos. My first project was a hot pad/trivet....This is what it's going to look like when I'm all done. You cut your size canvas to be about 3/4" bigger all the way around than what you want the finished size to be. Next, you fold each of the four sides over, about two to three squares and crease it down. You whip stitch the edges with fabric strips, not using any twine or yarn just yet, you are just binding the raw edges down so they don't unravel. They still might do a little unraveling as you start hooking. Next, you take a strip of fabric and hold it behind the rug canvas like this, ready to pull thru a hole with your special long crochet hook/needle eye. This is the back side. At the eye end of the crochet hook needle, you thread the eye with your locking yarn/cotton/twine, like a threaded needle. It just dangles off the back end of the crochet hook till you are ready to use it. Now, you reach through the rug canvas hole, and pull up a loop on your hook, leaving it on the needle... Then, you pull another loop with your crochet hook and leave it on the needle....Each time you pull up a loop, give a little tug with your finger on the back side, to keep the loops consistently the same height. You want them to be about a quarter inch tall. I find a tug from the back of the canvas with my finger holding the strip of fabric, keeps the loops about as tall as the width of the crochet hook, which is just perfect. The loops need to be tall enough so your locking yarn/cotton/twine can be pulled through, which is usually no problem as it's a lot skinnier than your fabric strips! I've pulled my locking medium through the last set of loops, so it's sitting there waiting, dangling off the back end of my crochet hook till I get my next cluster of loops on the hook. I usually pull up about 4-6 loops, then it's time to slide the crochet hook to the left, like you are "threading" the loops, leaving the loops standing up in the canvas. Your locking medium, which is threaded at the right end of the hook, now slides through those standing loops, following the crochet hook path. Here, I just need to pull a little more with my crochet hook to tighten up the black yarn so it disappears between the loops. Sometimes you can see the locking medium and that's no big deal. The loops will close up a little more once the trivet/hotpad is done and the loops get a little "squished" from pots or dishes or candles sitting on them. I picked a black yarn since there are so many colors on this trivet. White might have been better, but white would show the rug canvas threads a little more, so I picked black. You could use any color yarn, as long as it's worsted weight or thicker. Hobby Lobby sells a stringy twine for locker hooking. I have some of that but have not tried it yet. The bulkier yarn helps "fill" the little loops, I think. I chose to go back and forth for a linear look for my first one. Then, I decided to do a "spiral" design. I started around the outside edges and went round and round. After my sister saw my first one, she said, " I want FOUR!" so I was off and running.... Here is the second one, almost done..... And, my set of four for my sis. Thanks, sis, for your order! And that's the very basics of locker hooking! Let me know if you decide to try this....It's fun, but I will say it's hard on the hands and fingers...
Make your own handmade rugs to enhance rooms and serve as focal points on their own. Make an elaborately crafted rug if you know how to a weave wool tapestry with a large floor loom. Take on a moderately difficult project by designing a hooked rug.
Learn how to crochet the bullion stitch with a latch hook and make a pretty bullion stitch flower to embellish your projects in the process.
I saw this book in Hobby Lobby one day, and it was calling my name..... It had a gorgeous hooked canvas journal book cover on the front...I waited and waited for awhile, then I caved in and bought it....Theresa Pulido is the rug hooking artist/ author, and she has a website devoted to locker hooking with videos, free patterns and gorgeous fabric strips. Locker hooking is a vintage method of rug hooking, where after you pull up 4-5 loops on a special long crochet hook with the hook at one end and a large needle eye at the other, you pull yarn through your loops and the loops are "locked" down to the canvas. They can't pull out. Here's what the needle looks like...Hobby Lobby has them.... For the "yarn" for hooking loops, you use fabric--you can use cotton fabric strips, you can use wool, and/or you can use a combination of fabric strips with specialty fibers, the possibilities are many. There are two sizes of rug canvas---5 mesh, and 3.75 mesh. The larger number mesh means that the holes to pull your loops through are smaller to the inch than the 3.75 canvas which has slightly larger holes. If you are wanting detail in your project, you would choose the smaller holed mesh, but honestly, I counted the squares per inch for both, and there's only one square difference between the two sizes. Hobby Lobby carries the larger, more common 3.75 mesh. You cut or tear fabric strips...1/2" width is the usual size used if you are using batik fabrics, and 3/4" is the size for all other fabrics. Batiks are wonderful because the print is the same on both sides. Here I've torn my fabric strips and wound them on little scraps of cardboard so I don't have to stop as much during my project, I've got lots of choices ready to use. If you use regular fabrics, then you will need to fold your strips in half because the print is only on one side of the fabric. There are several great YouTube videos that teach you how to join strips and tie up your loose ends as you work your way through a project, so a video is a better way to learn, I found for me. Theresa Pulido's website, Color Crazy, is another great way to learn how. Here is a basic idea of how to do it with still photos. My first project was a hot pad/trivet....This is what it's going to look like when I'm all done. You cut your size canvas to be about 3/4" bigger all the way around than what you want the finished size to be. Next, you fold each of the four sides over, about two to three squares and crease it down. You whip stitch the edges with fabric strips, not using any twine or yarn just yet, you are just binding the raw edges down so they don't unravel. They still might do a little unraveling as you start hooking. Next, you take a strip of fabric and hold it behind the rug canvas like this, ready to pull thru a hole with your special long crochet hook/needle eye. This is the back side. At the eye end of the crochet hook needle, you thread the eye with your locking yarn/cotton/twine, like a threaded needle. It just dangles off the back end of the crochet hook till you are ready to use it. Now, you reach through the rug canvas hole, and pull up a loop on your hook, leaving it on the needle... Then, you pull another loop with your crochet hook and leave it on the needle....Each time you pull up a loop, give a little tug with your finger on the back side, to keep the loops consistently the same height. You want them to be about a quarter inch tall. I find a tug from the back of the canvas with my finger holding the strip of fabric, keeps the loops about as tall as the width of the crochet hook, which is just perfect. The loops need to be tall enough so your locking yarn/cotton/twine can be pulled through, which is usually no problem as it's a lot skinnier than your fabric strips! I've pulled my locking medium through the last set of loops, so it's sitting there waiting, dangling off the back end of my crochet hook till I get my next cluster of loops on the hook. I usually pull up about 4-6 loops, then it's time to slide the crochet hook to the left, like you are "threading" the loops, leaving the loops standing up in the canvas. Your locking medium, which is threaded at the right end of the hook, now slides through those standing loops, following the crochet hook path. Here, I just need to pull a little more with my crochet hook to tighten up the black yarn so it disappears between the loops. Sometimes you can see the locking medium and that's no big deal. The loops will close up a little more once the trivet/hotpad is done and the loops get a little "squished" from pots or dishes or candles sitting on them. I picked a black yarn since there are so many colors on this trivet. White might have been better, but white would show the rug canvas threads a little more, so I picked black. You could use any color yarn, as long as it's worsted weight or thicker. Hobby Lobby sells a stringy twine for locker hooking. I have some of that but have not tried it yet. The bulkier yarn helps "fill" the little loops, I think. I chose to go back and forth for a linear look for my first one. Then, I decided to do a "spiral" design. I started around the outside edges and went round and round. After my sister saw my first one, she said, " I want FOUR!" so I was off and running.... Here is the second one, almost done..... And, my set of four for my sis. Thanks, sis, for your order! And that's the very basics of locker hooking! Let me know if you decide to try this....It's fun, but I will say it's hard on the hands and fingers...
Using ceramic tiles and fabric strips makes it easy to create a beautiful, hand-crafted, locker hooked gift you can also personalize.
Description \n \nA loop turner is a very thin metal rod with a ring on one end and a hook and latch on the other. It's great for any fabric cylinder that needs to be turned right side out. If you want really skinny spaghetti straps or tubes for loop buttonholes, it will work the best. \n \nFeature \n \n- Color: As shown. \n- Material: Metal. \n- Length: 26.5cm; 17.5cm. \n- Turn spaghetti straps, button loops, string belts and much more. \n- Latch-hook end catches fabric to pull it through bias tubing. \n- Made of wire, hooked end grabs and hangs on to fabric as you pull. \n- Perfect tool for turning bias tubing, a necessity for home craft sewing. \nWarm Tip: Dear buyer, due to lighting effect, monitor's brightness, manual measurement, etc., there could be some slight differences in the color and size between the photo and the actual item. Sincerely hope that you can understand! Thank you!
This is the basic Locker Hooked Tutorial. The basic technique you should know before you get started with the locker hooked craft projects.
How to locker hook Easter egg coasters and baskets.
Locker Hooking is a vintage fiber art technique that you can use to create a rug, pillow, hot pad, wall hanging, book cover, and more.
What starts out like this... will soon become one of these....with a lot of fabric, time, and hard work!!! We use an open weave canvas and one inch cotton strips of fabric to create these wonderful table runners, mats, and samplers! Be sure to check out our new selling blog (there's a link to it at the top left side of this page)! Our first two items listed will be locker hooked table runners and you'll receive a free gift with purchase!!!!!!! Also, if you stop by our blog, we'd love to have you sign up to be a follower!
Learn how to do the locker hook. If you can't find the locker hook needle at your local craft shop, you can make one from the disposable bamboo chopstick.
Locker hook some fun summer crafts. Try the new Color Crazy locker hooking bracelet kits. 15% off until July 15.
Get the pattern & tutorial to make an eye candy locker hook indigo dial trivet. Perfect for the dining table. Video of similar tutorial is included.
What starts out like this... will soon become one of these....with a lot of fabric, time, and hard work!!! We use an open weave canvas and one inch cotton strips of fabric to create these wonderful table runners, mats, and samplers! Be sure to check out our new selling blog (there's a link to it at the top left side of this page)! Our first two items listed will be locker hooked table runners and you'll receive a free gift with purchase!!!!!!! Also, if you stop by our blog, we'd love to have you sign up to be a follower!
Locker Hook is a great way to turn fabric strips into rugs, art pieces and more. It's great for beginners and experieced crafters
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Top 10 Locker Hooking Tips: learn essential tips for beautiful, long lasting locker hooked projects and designs.
I stumbled across this craft known as locker hooking! From this To this And this And this Here is a good selection of information to get you and I started. Here is a link to another locker hookers post. Link to some free patterns. YouTube Video Tutorials. These tutorials will lead you to the next in the series too. You may also like to see some latch hooking Materials you may need. The locker hook from Amazon could not be posted to Australia, so I ordered mine from here.
