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