Using Roving In Hooked Rugs

Use this clean white natural colored wool roving in your rug hooking project to add interest and dimension.

Using roving in hooked rugs.

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. Wool roving rug weaving. So glad to have you join us.

Learn details on choosing the correct rag rug crochet hook for your rag rug project. Basic students must have basic rug hooking knowledge experience. 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. Jenni stuart anderson is a designer maker using recycled and vintage textiles to make customised rugs hangings and 3d pieces with contemporary designs.

Please let me know if you have questions about choosing a hook for your. Halcyon yarn a mail order yarn company also online has three yarns that i love. I totally identify with your fiberholic ways. Sew the pillow layers together using the thick rug hooked layer as a guide.

Beat it into place. From roving to rugs using roving to locker hook or crochet beautiful soft rugs. Pull another small section of roving and lay it in place slightly overlapping the previous piece. That being said while i go through a ton of the above yarns i also consume vast amounts of other brands.

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. Welcome to from roving to rugs. We love to touch our fiber feeeeel it sqeeeeze it. Deco rug wool and botanica.

Jenni offers courses on the traditional rag rug techniques of hooking progging prodding and. Deco and botanica are both worsted weight rug wool is bulky. 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. Give this a slight twist open the shed and lay the wool into the shed.

Pull a small section of the roving apart the length of the staple. Switch your sewing machine s standard sewing foot for a zipper foot and move your sewing machine needle all the way to the left. One ounce provides approximately 4 yards 12 feet of roving. We press it against our face and gasp.

She made adorable sheep pillows using this method.