Basic Rug Hooking Instructions
Before you being: Cut yarn or fabric strips into approximately 2 feet pieces.
1 Stretch the canvas in a hoop or frame with the design facing up. Rest the hoop or frame on a table or your lap. (The thumbscrew of a hoop should be opposite you).
2 With your left hand (right hand if you're a leftie) hold the end of the yarn or fabric strip between your thumb and forefinger.
3 With your right hand, hold the hook as if it were a pencil, with your fingertips on the metal collar as shown.
4 Hold the wool in your left hand and put it beneath the canvas. With your right hand, push the hook down through the mesh. The shaft of the hook should touch your left forefinger and slide behind the woolen strip. Push the wool onto the hook with your left thumb.
5 With the hook, pull the end of the strip through to the front of backing with the hook, to a height of about 1/2".
6 Push the hook down through the canvas a little to the left of the strip's end and catch the strip underneath. Pull up a 1/8" loop, or as high as the strip is wide. To prevent pulling out the previous loop, lean the hook back toward the previous loop as you pull up another loop.
7 Working from left to right, make even loops that gently touch each other. Never put more than one loop in a hole.
8 When you reach the end of the woolen strip or yarn, pull the end up through the canvas (on the top). Pull all ends through to the front as you hook.
9 Start the next strip in the same hole in which the last strip ended, again leaving a 1/2 inch tail.
10 Trim the ends even with the loops after making several loops with the new strips.
11 Continue the hooking process until the pattern is complete. To keep the back of the rug from becoming lumpy, do not cross a row of hooking with another strip.
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