How To Finish A Latch Hook Wall Hanging

Keep pushing the hook until the latch sits above the bottom line of the square.

How to finish a latch hook wall hanging.

Pull the yarn up and to the left keeping the yarn under the latch. Hold all four strand ends in one hand so that they are just about at the crook of your latch hook. Continue stitching around the horizontal canvas threads and through the hanging sleeve until you get to the other end. One down one million to go.

Secure rug binding to each empty canvas edge. Basically you are doing horizontal stitches that are hidden inside the hanging sleeve. Basic latch hook finishing. You see i ve always loved neo plasticism of piet mondrian and recently decided that i wanted to make my kitchen into a cubist s dream.

Just eyeball it to make the hooks level as you work across the wall. Choose a binding that matches the color of the rug. This is how it should look when you are finished. Pull the yarn to the right between the latch and the hook and then wrap it around the back of the hook.

If you are left handed you are probably going to want to start at the left end of your sleeve and sew to the right. Push your latch hook up underneath the first square where you want to place your yarn. That should leave about 1 2 inch of the canvas. A tutorial on how to bind the edge of your latch hook rug to give it protection strength and tidy it up.

Hang the latch hook wall hanging by sticking the picture hanging hooks through the holes in the canvas on the back side of the latch hook. Supplies your nearly finished latch hook with 1 of empty rug canvas on all sides sturdy scissors tapestry needle yarn or strong thread. If you have any questions please visit my website a. Level the hanging by moving the hook up or down on the canvas on the backside.

Part two of this wave of primary colors is a new rug for my. Fold your 1 of unused rug canvas down at the back of your latch hook project. So i started this whole latch hook rug project a few weeks ago and spent about 4 hours a night hooking my new rug. I started with knocking off my own mondrian inspired painting over at mom spark.

Cut all of the edges of the finished rug leaving two complete empty squares all around. Smaller hangings will need hooks every 5 inches. Knot your thread off.