![]() ![]() I noticed that the breakage occurs most often on the blue horizontal threads. Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before I experienced breakage. I found this confusing, but I began to work on the less obviously twisted strands, the ones that run horizontally in my picture. However, the strands running horizontally in the picture are still twisted, although they are twisted more tightly. The strands that run vertically in the picture are more loosely and obviously twisted. Looking at it closely, there are no completely flat strands in either direction. The Dimensions canvas is not built in the same way as the canvas from Color Crazy. This was significantly less expensive than what I had purchased at Color Crazy, so I thought I had found a bargain! But, as they say, you get what you pay for! Looking around, I found 5 mesh canvas on JoAnn Fabric’s website, brand name “Dimensions”. This was to be a very large rug that I planned on using as a wall hanging above my bed. I then started work on my Apple Latch Hook Rug. I used a regular 3.75 mesh tool, purchased at Michaels (Caron), which was a bit too large for the canvas holes, but I had no problems. ![]() When I worked the Children’s Latch Hook Name rug, I worked the yarn onto the flat strands. In any case, this is the generally accepted way that latch hook canvas should look. So, my personal thought, is that you will get less breakage of the strings in the canvas when you work it this way. ![]() I have noticed myself, that when inserting the latch hook into a hole under a flat strand, the hole can expand to the right and left as the twisted strands will slide over a bit, giving a bit of flexibility to the width of the hole as you are working it. Some say your project will not look uniformly worked if you don’t do this. I have seen various reasons for this posted on the internet. It is these flat, non-twisted strands that you want to hook the yarn onto. If you look closely you will see that the strands running vertically are twisted, and the strands running horizontally are flat and not twisted. This is what latch hook canvas is supposed to look like. It looked very consistent with the latch hook canvas I had seen described in other blog posts. Color Crazy 5-Mesh Canvasįor my first project, the Children’s Latch Hook Name Rug, I purchased latch hook canvas from Color Crazy through Amazon. I found extreme differences in the two 5 mesh canvases that I purchased. Latch Hook Canvas Qualityįirst, I’ll discuss latch hook canvas quality. In this post, I will share with you what I have learned so far. In working these projects, though, I have learned to be cautious about the latch hook tool and the canvas quality. I love the dense, soft feel of the rugs worked at this tighter mesh and, when digitizing a photo, I can get more detail into the rug using a 5 mesh canvas, as opposed to the common 3.75 mesh. I have been working with 5-mesh latch hook canvas (5 holes per inch) and Herrschner’s Pre-cut Latch Hook Rug yarn. I have learned some things in the process, so I wanted to share those as a review of the available tools and canvas for 5 mesh latch hook rugs.īefore this I had only worked projects that came in kits, so it has been an adventure to purchase my own latch hook canvas and create and work my own designs. I have now worked on 3 separate latch hook projects created by the Grid Designer, all of these worked on 5 mesh canvas. ![]()
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