Do you hook round or square corners? Of course there are other shape styles of rugs like half circle and oval. So if it is a square or rectangular rug how do you hook your corners? A few years ago I hooked a smallish antique adaptation I named Spike since the antique seemed to show him wearing a spiked collar. The antique was oval and so I hooked it in an oval shape. I think he's a cutie.
While most of my rugs have square corners, I've also hooked rugs with a rounded edge. One such rug is below as well as the chicken pair which I'm in the process of binding. I find a rounded corner rug to be effortless to bind with wool yarn, wool and cotton binding than a squared corner. The instructions I've seen and I've experienced requires whipping a sharp corner well by whipping the yarn in each corner several times to completely cover the edge. I've often wondered if it weakens the foundation by doing that. If the corner is rounded it makes a smooth transition all around making it much easier, me thinks.
I noticed Lauren (Rugs and Pugs) hooked rounded corners on the sheep she attached to the basket top. Drop by to check it out.
Here's how I do my corners when I want a rounded edge. You can do this on purchased patterns as well and you only need a quarter and a Sharpie. Place the quarter at each corner.
Take a sharpie and draw around the quarter conjoining lines. It appears to be a very subtle change from the square, doesn't it?
Yet when you hook inside the line it will definitely make a smoother look and easier to bind.
Not all my rugs have rounded corners but have been on a rounded corner kick lately. Whichever way you like your rugs here's wishing you happy hooking. Stay cool during this summer heatwave. So glad I got the grass weeds cut this week.
Saundra
Most of my hooked pieces end up with slight round corners , none have a sharp point ....never really thought about that detail before until you mentioned it . LOL
ReplyDeleteI'm dreading the heat wave was already Hot here this afternoon. Good days to stay inside & hook !!!
Thanks for sharing this. Like Nancy (^^^), I never really thought much about it until you mentioned it. Obviously, if the rug was oval, I'd hook it "ovally," but if it were rectangular/square and I was doing a whipped edge, I just whipped it several times around the corners as you said. Lately, though, I've been binding my rugs with a wool binding and since I'm not whipping, just make a "square-ish" corner with the wool ("square-ish" because it is kind of hard to make a sharp corner with the wool). I'll definitely be thinking about this with new rugs I hook. I might round my hooking a bit more to at least match the "square-ish" shapes of my wool corners? I don't want to talk about the heat. Record highs here in Nod today thru at least Monday (90's real temps, 95-105 heat indices. In the wee hours of the morning, I turned my a/c on for the first time this year and went back to bed. Woke drenched and melting...Even though I had set it to 70º, it was 84º and hot air was blasting out of the vents. Had I known, I'd have never turned it on as the house will typically stay (relatively? tolerably?) cool. I immediately turned it off, but the temps continue to rise at this point. I started calling the on-call tech (of course it's a weekend) for the company who messed things up starting b/f 9 am...got through around 10 and waited until 5 for him to get here. Current temp inside: 86º. :-(
ReplyDeleteDefinitely round corners,
ReplyDeleteGreat tip,,,,
Elaine
Too hot here now 😭😭
Elaine
Great tip for a rounded edge. All of my rugs are square...but I never really thought about whether I like round or square. Its the design itself that makes me happy. Stay cool. Its gonna be another hot one today. Janice
ReplyDeleteMost of my rugs have square corners, but so much easier to bind with roundish ones! I usually forget to round them 😠
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