If it is not under the water it is not going to absorb the dye for primitive mottled color stir the wool only when it first goes into the pot.
How to do primitive hooked rug.
Back then i could whip out 2 mini hooked rugs a day 5 by 8 and maybe one or two larger ones a month.
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Loop or fold the yarn around the base of the hook beneath the swinging latch.
Stick the hook under the canvas bar in the bottom of the first square so that the latch passes under the canvas bar and back up to the top side again.
Learning to make hooked rugs is easy.
Take the ends of the loop and put them over the canvas bar through the latch and under the actual hook.
Primitive rug hooking just like the pioneers hooked em plus some other interesting pioneer facts.
Bring all your ends of wool to the surface and clip them evenly with your loops.
5 continue hooking until the whole mat is done.
In primitive hooking you generally start by outlining an area and then filling it in.
If you want more even color.
It was a nice side income and i enjoyed staying up late hooking rugs at night and watching movies by myself when the kids were younger.
How to overdye wool for hooked rugs 1.
And who knows it could develop into a profitable sideline if you do quality work.
Before i started blogging full time i sold my primitive hooked rugs on ebay.