Using your rug hook pull one end of the strip through the fabric very close to your flower center.
Prodding rug hooking.
Skipping a few holes in the backing pull the tail through.
Iloverughooking carries all supplies needed for creating beautiful prodded rugs.
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Proddy is an old fashioned british variation of rug hooking using shaped pieces of wool fabric lifted up with a hook wool prod or prodding clasp.
This is the glue i use.
How to use a spring hook if making a proddy picture mat thick wool fabric is perfect it gives your rug body and cutting your peices 2 long x 1 2 wide allows the peices to stand up firm keeping the picture in shape.
Aleene s no sew fabric glue i found at jo ann fabrics.
Using fabric glue apply all around the flower as close to the hooking prodding as possible.
June 1 2012 at 3 49 am i finished a proddy rug this year using up some of the samples that come in the mail selvedge edges and wool that is too thin or thick to use in my hooked rugs.
Proddy is a wonderfully simple old rug making technique.
I did it in a.
A new free rug hooking pattern is in the works.
Happy to have inspired you to try prodding.
Rugs are created from scraps of wool or other fabrics by simply poking or prodding through a loosely woven linen or other backing.
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Hooking and prodding at rugmaking.