Using Roving In Hooked Rugs

Halcyon yarn a mail order yarn company also online has three yarns that i love.

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. Please let me know if you have questions about choosing a hook for your. 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. Deco rug wool and botanica.

Pull another small section of roving and lay it in place slightly overlapping the previous piece. Basic students must have basic rug hooking knowledge experience. This is optional but it ll help you sew nice and close to the edge of your rug hook design. Santa s beards angel wings and wooly sheep are just a few ideas for using wool roving.

Jenni offers courses on the traditional rag rug techniques of hooking progging prodding and. We press it against our face and gasp. Give this a slight twist open the shed and lay the wool into the shed. Use this clean white natural colored wool roving in your rug hooking project to add interest and dimension.

So glad to have you join us. In 2003 jenni also started weaving using british rare breed fleece with recycled textiles. Sew the pillow layers together using the thick rug hooked layer as a guide. I totally identify with your fiberholic ways.

Beat it into place. Deco and botanica are both worsted weight rug wool is bulky. Wool roving rug weaving. She made adorable sheep pillows using this method.

Jenni stuart anderson is a designer maker using recycled and vintage textiles to make customised rugs hangings and 3d pieces with contemporary designs. From roving to rugs using roving to locker hook or crochet beautiful soft rugs. Welcome to from roving to rugs. We love to touch our fiber feeeeel it sqeeeeze it.

This rug was hooked using the above natural colored yarns. Learn details on choosing the correct rag rug crochet hook for your rag rug project. Pull a small section of the roving apart the length of the staple. 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.

Weave a 2 inch header using 2 ply wool for the edge of the rug.