How to Locker Hook
Locker Hooking is a vintage fiber art technique that you can use to create a rug, pillow, hot pad, wall hanging, book cover, and more. Locker hooking uses a mesh canvas along with some sort of textile like fabric, ribbon, yarn along with a special took called a locker hook. This locker hook is part crochet hook and part yarn needle.
How to Begin
The easiest way to jump into locker hooking is to get a locker hook kit. I know these days this isn’t always easy, so you can also get the basic supplies separately.
- Mesh Rug Canvas
- Locker Hook
- Fiber for the top section – fabric, yarn, ribbon
- Fiber for the locking section – twine, yarn
You can find an online source for these supplies below.
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Locker Hook Basics
To do locker hooking, you’ll first cut your canvas to the size of your item, such as a pillow, rug, bag, hot pad, etc. You can start off with a small trivet size of 6 inches by 6 inches if you’d like.
Next, you’ll thread your locking fiber through the locker hook. In my video, I used regular yarn. Then you’ll lock this yarn onto the canvas. I like to weave in and out of a square to do this, but feel free to tie and knot the yarn to the canvas instead.
Then place your main fiber behind the canvas. Ironically this is what will be seen in the front. Use the crochet hook part of the locker hook to draw up loops. For beginners I recommend doing three loops in a row. Then take your locking yarn and pull it through the three loops.
Repeat the process of drawing up loops. As you gain experience, feel free to draw up ten loops or more before pulling them through with the locking yarn.
At the end, be sure to weave in all of your ends. As always, please see my tutorial video, which takes you step-by-step through this entire process!
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