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.
Using roving in hooked rugs.
This rug was hooked using the above natural colored yarns.
Jenni stuart anderson is a designer maker using recycled and vintage textiles to make customised rugs hangings and 3d pieces with contemporary designs.
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.
Give this a slight twist open the shed and lay the wool into the shed.
Welcome to from roving to rugs.
We press it against our face and gasp.
Pull another small section of roving and lay it in place slightly overlapping the previous piece.
Weave a 2 inch header using 2 ply wool for the edge of the rug.
Learn details on choosing the correct rag rug crochet hook for your rag rug project.
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.
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.
Basic students must have basic rug hooking knowledge experience.
She made adorable sheep pillows using this method.
Santa s beards angel wings and wooly sheep are just a few ideas for using wool roving.
Please let me know if you have questions about choosing a hook for your.
I totally identify with your fiberholic ways.
From roving to rugs using roving to locker hook or crochet beautiful soft rugs.
This is optional but it ll help you sew nice and close to the edge of your rug hook design.
Pull a small section of the roving apart the length of the staple.
Wool roving rug weaving.
Deco and botanica are both worsted weight rug wool is bulky.
Sew the pillow layers together using the thick rug hooked layer as a guide.
In 2003 jenni also started weaving using british rare breed fleece with recycled textiles.
Switch your sewing machine s standard sewing foot for a zipper foot and move your sewing machine needle all the way to the left.
Deco rug wool and botanica.
So glad to have you join us.
Halcyon yarn a mail order yarn company also online has three yarns that i love.
One ounce provides approximately 4 yards 12 feet of roving.