Using Roving In Hooked Rugs

Sew the pillow layers together using the thick rug hooked layer as a guide.

Using roving in hooked rugs.

Hand woven fabric covering a 9 x 9 custom built frame hand dyed wool 8 cut and ready to use hand dyed roving for felting with color choices foam felting needles chalk pencil and pattern. Deco and botanica are both worsted weight rug wool is bulky. We love to touch our fiber feeeeel it sqeeeeze it. Give this a slight twist open the shed and lay the wool into the shed.

So glad to have you join us. Switch your sewing machine s standard sewing foot for a zipper foot and move your sewing machine needle all the way to the left. Jenni offers courses on the traditional rag rug techniques of hooking progging prodding and. Beat it into place.

Wool roving rug weaving. Use this clean white natural colored wool roving in your rug hooking project to add interest and dimension. Basic students must have basic rug hooking knowledge experience. In 2003 jenni also started weaving using british rare breed fleece with recycled textiles.

She made adorable sheep pillows using this method. Pull a small section of the roving apart the length of the staple. Halcyon yarn a mail order yarn company also online has three yarns that i love. Learn details on choosing the correct rag rug crochet hook for your rag rug project.

A friend of mine showed me how to take washed wool and use it the same way you would use the wool strips in rug hooking. Welcome to from roving to rugs. I totally identify with your fiberholic ways. One ounce provides approximately 4 yards 12 feet of roving.

This is optional but it ll help you sew nice and close to the edge of your rug hook design. That being said while i go through a ton of the above yarns i also consume vast amounts of other brands. We press it against our face and gasp. Weave a 2 inch header using 2 ply wool for the edge of the rug.

This rug was hooked using the above natural colored yarns. With all of this curly gotland wool around i kept thinking about those sheep pillows and decided to design my own hooked pillows reminiscent of my own gotland sheep. Pull another small section of roving and lay it in place slightly overlapping the previous piece. Santa s beards angel wings and wooly sheep are just a few ideas for using wool roving.

From roving to rugs using roving to locker hook or crochet beautiful soft rugs.