Rug Hooking Worms

Pattern great for rug hooking or punch needle.

Rug hooking worms.

I will draw the pattern with the chicken facing left however if you want it drawn in the reverse let me know in a note when purchased. The rug hook often has a wooden handle to provide a more ergonomic grip to the hooker. Mar 6 2012 explore rebekah fowler s board rug hooking rooms storage organizers followed by 739 people on pinterest. The term is widely used in rug hooking circles and we just assume everyone knows what we are talking about.

As a new rug hooker you have not accumulated a wool stash yet. However each project will leave you with left over strips we call worms. Sort of like getting colds if you work in the hospital it s an occupational hazard. Worms n hooks wooley things hooked rugs chicken or the egg.

There s nothing you can do to prevent them no matter how diligent you are they will come. There are aspects of rug hooking that should be done in a certain way to ensure that rugs last or look neat and clean and things that need to be learned the hard way but for the most part consider these comments best practices but not the rule. See more ideas about rug hooking hand hooked rugs hooked rugs primitive. Handling so much wool it s bound to happen.