How To Make A Latch Hook Rug Pattern
Wrap a piece of pre cut rug yarn around the metal of the tool near its handle.
How to make a latch hook rug pattern. Since 1956 knit and crochet sweaters afghans and crafts. Begin at the lower left hand corner or start at the lower right hand corner if you are left handed and take a string of the first color. Pull the tool toward you so that the latch catches canvas. Loop or fold the yarn around the base of the hook beneath the swinging latch.
Keeping the yarn in place slide the tool under a straight never twisted line in the rug canvas. Start with a piece of graph paper and blow it up in a copy machine until the grid is the same size as the grid of your latch hook fabric. The hook will need to go under and through. If you are using photoshop go to filter and scroll down to pixelate and then select mosaic the more pixels in the image the lager the rug will be.
Repeat on all for sides to bind the edges of the rug. Blank latch hook canvas latch hook yarn you can buy pre cut latch hook yarn but to save money i cut mine by hand 2. Push your hook through a square. Choose a digital image that you want to make into a latch hooked rug then pixelate the image to the resolution that you want your rug to be.
By creating your own iron on paper you make a design you can transfer to your latch hook fabric. Begin hooking the rug. As an alternative buy premade latch hook transfer paper in a craft store. Fold an edge over one or two times and whipstitch around the edge until secure.
Draw your design on the graph paper.