Welcome to from roving to rugs.
Using roving in hooked rugs.
We love to touch our fiber feeeeel it sqeeeeze it.
Halcyon yarn a mail order yarn company also online has three yarns that i love.
Deco rug wool and botanica.
We press it against our face and gasp.
Learn details on choosing the correct rag rug crochet hook for your rag rug project.
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.
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.
That being said while i go through a ton of the above yarns i also consume vast amounts of other brands.
One ounce provides approximately 4 yards 12 feet of roving.
Give this a slight twist open the shed and lay the wool into the shed.
Switch your sewing machine s standard sewing foot for a zipper foot and move your sewing machine needle all the way to the left.
Pull a small section of the roving apart the length of the staple.
She made adorable sheep pillows using this method.
Sew the pillow layers together using the thick rug hooked layer as a guide.
Wool roving rug weaving.
Beat it into place.
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.
This rug was hooked using the above natural colored yarns.
This is optional but it ll help you sew nice and close to the edge of your rug hook design.
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.
Weave a 2 inch header using 2 ply wool for the edge of the rug.
Use this clean white natural colored wool roving in your rug hooking project to add interest and dimension.
Deco and botanica are both worsted weight rug wool is bulky.
In 2003 jenni also started weaving using british rare breed fleece with recycled textiles.
I totally identify with your fiberholic ways.
Please let me know if you have questions about choosing a hook for your.
Pull another small section of roving and lay it in place slightly overlapping the previous piece.
