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How to Add a Yarn Edge to a Hooked Rug

By Amy

How to Add a Yarn Edge to a Hooked Rug

Today, my Mom is going to show us how to add a yarn edge to a hooked rug project.  

This process adds a finished edge to the rug hooking project

on both the front and the back.  

It works best to use a 100% wool yarn or wool blend yarn.

Supplies Needed for Yarn Edge:

Supplies needed for hooked rug yarn edge
  • Finished hooked rug
  • Yardstick
  • Pencil
  • Scissors
  • Wool or Wool Blend Yarn
  • Yarn Needle

Preparing the Foundation Fabric:

Measure one half to three fourths inch from the edge of the hooked piece.  

Mark this measurement with a pencil in several places across each side.  

Mark measurement on each side

Use a yardstick to draw a line across each side connecting the marks.  

Use yardstick to draw line

Cut on the line all the way around and serge the edges.

If you don’t have a serger, you could also zig zag stitch along the edges.  

Cut along lines

Starting the Yarn Edge on the Hooked Rug:

Cut a piece of wool or wool blend yarn about 36 inches long.

Thread the yarn onto a yarn needle.  

Start in the middle of the bottom of the hooked rug.  

Roll the empty foundation fabric over towards the front.

You can pin it or just roll as you go.  

Roll up edge of foundation fabric

From the back, insert the needle right up next to the hooked edge.

Pull the yarn through, leaving a tail of yarn in the back.   

insert needle and leave yarn tail

Bring the yarn over the rolled edge of foundation fabric

and from the back, insert the needle right up next to the hooked edge

very close to where you inserted it before.  

When you pull the yarn through, make sure the loop of yarn 

encases the yarn tail you left in the back in the first stitch.  

stitch another stitch on the yarn edge of the hooked rug

Continue the process of rolling the fabric and stitching all the way around.  

When you run out of yarn, leave a short tail from the yarn you are using.

Cut a new piece of yarn and repeat the beginning process,

leaving a tail and encasing both tails as you stitch.

Finishing the Corners of the Hooked Rug with Yarn:

When you have stitched up close to the corner,

press the empty foundation fabric over with your finger

finger press foundation fabric

and then turn in the edge just a little bit more.  

turn in edge more

Next, turn up the other side to make a corner.  

turn up other side

Pin this in place.

pin in place

Continue stitching until you get to the very corner.  

At the corner, stitch from the corner of the hooked rug

to the turned over corner of the foundation fabric.

This will leave an empty hole that doesn’t have yarn yet.

corner stitch

Place another stitch in the hole

and then place a stitch on the other side of the corner stitch.  

stitch the corner of the hooked rug's yarn edge

Continue stitching on alternate sides of the corner stitch

until the corner is completed covered with yarn.

Finishing the Yarn Edge on a Hooked Rug:

When you get back around to where you started stitching,

add an extra stitch or two at the very end if needed

to completely cover up the foundation fabric.    

Add extra stitches at the end

Turn the hooked rug over.  

Pull the yarn to the back

and run the needle through some of the stitches.

run yarn through stitches on the back

Cut off the extra yarn

and the hooked rug is finished!  

Finished Hooked Rug with a Yarn Edge

Watch the Video:

Blessings~
Amy

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How to Add a Yarn Edge to a Hooked Rug

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