Using Roving In Hooked Rugs

Jenni stuart anderson is a designer maker using recycled and vintage textiles to make customised rugs hangings and 3d pieces with contemporary designs.

Using roving in hooked rugs.

Halcyon yarn a mail order yarn company also online has three yarns that i love. Give this a slight twist open the shed and lay the wool into the shed. Beat it into place. I totally identify with your fiberholic ways.

Wool roving rug weaving. Switch your sewing machine s standard sewing foot for a zipper foot and move your sewing machine needle all the way to the left. Use this clean white natural colored wool roving in your rug hooking project to add interest and dimension. Deco rug wool and botanica.

Jenni offers courses on the traditional rag rug techniques of hooking progging prodding and. That being said while i go through a ton of the above yarns i also consume vast amounts of other brands. 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. This is optional but it ll help you sew nice and close to the edge of your rug hook design.

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. Learn details on choosing the correct rag rug crochet hook for your rag rug project. We love to touch our fiber feeeeel it sqeeeeze it. From roving to rugs using roving to locker hook or crochet beautiful soft rugs.

Welcome to from roving to rugs. So glad to have you join us. Please let me know if you have questions about choosing a hook for your. She made adorable sheep pillows using this method.

Pull another small section of roving and lay it in place slightly overlapping the previous piece. We press it against our face and gasp. Deco and botanica are both worsted weight rug wool is bulky. One ounce provides approximately 4 yards 12 feet of roving.

Basic students must have basic rug hooking knowledge experience. 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. Santa s beards angel wings and wooly sheep are just a few ideas for using wool roving.

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.