I like to work on crafts while I'm at the cabin. I just finished a latch hook rug using yarn. It's hard to find pre-cut rug yarn, but it is available online from Herrschners for Canadian and US customers. You can sometimes find canvas and latch hooks in craft stores.There are kits available, but I like to create a design of my own. My most recent rug was of my favourite place on earth, my cabin. Here's how I made my latch hook yarn rug.
- I cut the canvas mesh to size with a little extra for a hem. Mesh comes in two sizes, 3.75 and 5 holes per inch. I use the 3.75. At four rows per inch, each yarn package will cover a section of about three by five inches.
- Be sure to order enough yarn because it comes in die lots. Each package contains 320 strands of machine-washable acrylic yarn that is pre-cut to 6cm (2-1/2") long.
- Using a black permanent marker, I drew my design on the canvas. Don't worry, it doesn't show through.
- I like to work my designs by section. That way I can see how it is developing.
- Within a section, for example the trees, I count squares to create the detail. That's easier than drawing the detail on the canvas mesh.
- As the design grew, I did go back and make some changes. For example, I didn't like the way the water looked, so I took it out and reworked it with a different colour.
- I trimmed the edges of the canvas to one inch, turned it back and hand stitched one-inch binding tape over the edges.
