Where did I go to?

Well I suppose face book is so addictive that I have been spending most of my time there, but I do have a locker hooked project that I want to share with you all. I wanted a unique Christmas gift for my sister and brother in law, I wanted to make them personalized place mats with the locker hooking method. First I gathered my materials, I needed black and white colors, I shredded an entire queen size bed sheet and some black silk, the fabric was all new a good luck find from a second hand shop.

 Next I used an existing place mat to get my sizing.

 I made a fold for an edge and used very thick yarn to go around the edging.

 Then I traced out their initial on each place mat and locker hooked the initial first, then continued from the outer edging and inwards.

 So here they are finished and ready for dinner service, I would estimate they would take a week to make at a leisurely pace.

More on my locker hooking here.

My Locker Hooked Table Mat

You may remember this post I wrote about my discovery of locker hooking and this post about my toilet mat that I used the locker hooking method on.

Well I finally got around to making a locker hooked project with the graph canvas and a genuine locker hook, following the correct procedure for locker hooking.

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I wanted to replace this doily with a larger and more dramatic centre piece for my dining room table.

I folded the edging over for about 3 spaces and used 5 strands of yarn for the edging. The I cut strips of this striped fabric for the first locker hooked row. Watching the tutorials had told me to cut the fabric about half an inch thick, so I did, but this fabric is quite thick and I ended up with blisters on my hand by tugging it through, it wasn't until I got further along with other colors that I realised that the material they were using is quite a thin material and I should not have cut my material so wide, once I got over that simple hurdle and used different width's to suit the thickness of each type of material I had chosen to use, it was quite smooth sailing.
                                     

Here are the materials I had been collecting for this project, just scraps from the second hand shop, well scraps to some but very useable to me.

In this picture you can get an idea of the size it is, my husband saw this stage and said it would take me for ever, he under estimated me

                                      

I cut the fabric strips as you would for rag crochet and I held 5 strands of yarn together when I used the yarn.

                                      

I took a chance and changed the pattern for the centre of the mat. I'm glad I did as I like the out come.

The under side of the mat does have loose bit's of material and some joining that you can see, I plan to cut and glue these pieces flat to finish it all off nicely.

I hope that you have enjoyed my locker hooked table mat experience.



Locker Hooking? Crochet, Threading, Latching, Rag Stash Buster

I stumbled across this craft known as locker hooking!
From this

To this

And this

And this

Here is a good selection of information to get you and I started.

Here is a link to another locker hookers post.
Link to some free patterns.

YouTube Video Tutorials.

These tutorials will lead you to the next in the series too.

You may also like to see some latch hooking

                           


Materials you may need. 
The locker hook from Amazon could not be posted to Australia, so I ordered mine from here.