Locker Hooking

$60.00 $80.00

Instructor: Elaine Almquist

Class Time: 12 to 4pm

Reuse, Recycle, Reduce waste. Leftover fabric, yarns or fleece you cannot bear to throw away? Give LOCKER HOOKING a try. It’s inexpensive, fun, easy on the body and allows your creative juices to flow.

Using sheeting torn or cut into strips, Tarn (tee shirt yarn), literally any kind of fabric, a special hook with an eye at the other end, grid cloth (remember latchhook cloth? this is the same stuff) the fabric is pulled up from beneath the grid cloth using the hook end of the needle, the heavy thread (a great place to bury acrylic yarn) is pulled thru the loops on the needle to secure the yarn onto the gridded matrix. One can follow patterns or draw your own.

All materials are provided for this class and you’ll be most likely able to complete the project during class. Examples of finished and unfinished work will be available to examine. My very first project was a 4’x6’ log cabin quilt pattern! It’s easy to jump off the deep end!

Bring your creativity and eagerness to learn, I’ll provide the rest.

Class Details

Minimum Age: 8 years
- younger children can attend with an adult: two material fees will be required

Skills Required: some crochet, and needlework/sewing

Materials Fee, paid to instructor: $30

Instructor will bring (for use in class):

  • Cut fabrics of several varieties

  • Yarns

  • Locker hooking canvas
    Some canvas will have patterns drawn, some will be blank…participants choice

  • Locker hooking needles

  • Tapestry needles

  • Handouts

Instructor: Elaine Almquist

Class Time: 12 to 4pm

Reuse, Recycle, Reduce waste. Leftover fabric, yarns or fleece you cannot bear to throw away? Give LOCKER HOOKING a try. It’s inexpensive, fun, easy on the body and allows your creative juices to flow.

Using sheeting torn or cut into strips, Tarn (tee shirt yarn), literally any kind of fabric, a special hook with an eye at the other end, grid cloth (remember latchhook cloth? this is the same stuff) the fabric is pulled up from beneath the grid cloth using the hook end of the needle, the heavy thread (a great place to bury acrylic yarn) is pulled thru the loops on the needle to secure the yarn onto the gridded matrix. One can follow patterns or draw your own.

All materials are provided for this class and you’ll be most likely able to complete the project during class. Examples of finished and unfinished work will be available to examine. My very first project was a 4’x6’ log cabin quilt pattern! It’s easy to jump off the deep end!

Bring your creativity and eagerness to learn, I’ll provide the rest.

Class Details

Minimum Age: 8 years
- younger children can attend with an adult: two material fees will be required

Skills Required: some crochet, and needlework/sewing

Materials Fee, paid to instructor: $30

Instructor will bring (for use in class):

  • Cut fabrics of several varieties

  • Yarns

  • Locker hooking canvas
    Some canvas will have patterns drawn, some will be blank…participants choice

  • Locker hooking needles

  • Tapestry needles

  • Handouts

about Elaine Almquist

I’ve been around yarn and fabrics all my life, from hand knits and home sewn clothing and learned to knit and sew age age 8. In my mid-50’s I learned to spin, taking a dive off the deep end of that pool, from which I’ve never resurfaced. Knitting with handspun, learning to weave on floor loom, upright and pin looms as well as locker hooking (a great way to use remnants of fabrics), felting, dyeing fleece, fibers and yarns with both chemical and natural dyes.

I prefer making useful things, sweaters, sox caps and cowls with my handspun….mostly using multiple colors….fair isle, stranded work as well as entrelac and Intarsia techniques. Weaving-wise, blankets and hand/tea towels are my favorites. Using smaller bits of yarns, pin loom weaving is a great way to utilize these ‘left overs’. Locker hooking covers a wide range of uses, from place mats, rugs to sturdy baskets, purses and even some garment shaping.

If it’s wool…or most any other spinnable fiber…I’ve tried, done it. I’ve not raised the animals, unless cheingora counts, I’ve spun it. I have my preferences regarding the type of fleece and prefer to buy from a local grower…support your local Shepherdress!!…if we don’t buy locally, they won’t stay around!