How To Make A Loop Rug

Begin hooking the rug.

How to make a loop rug.

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. To start the rug count out 25 loops in your base foundation color. Pull a loop up through the backing. Making hooked rugs learning to make hooked rugs is easy.

Whether you plan to. This finishes the first row. This is the foundation row. Continue across pressing each loop through the latch hook canvas staying along the same row but skipping every other square.

Repeat process when moving up the template skipping one row when continuing up the pattern. Once secured with a rubber band fluff out the piping pieces so they have more of a fuzzy pom pom shape. Insert hook into first hole and pull up a loop of the fabric strip just big enough to easily push the hook tool through. Then pull the pieces upward and tie them together with a rubber band again as shown in the photo.

Next weave the cut cotton pieces in between the netting grid as shown in the photo. Starting with the orange loop yarn press the end loop through the latch hook canvas from underneath. In each of the 25 base loops insert two loops of the loops yarn. Loop or fold the yarn around the base of the hook beneath the swinging latch.

Continue to insert the hook and pull up loops until you have five loops on your hook. The cost of materials for a 5x8 rug totaled about 300. You can hook your own looped rug with a rug or crochet hook weave a tight tapestry of uncut loops on a loom or loop a rag rug together out of old sheets t shirts or curtains.