Card weaving and locker hooking are two fabric arts that, frankly, most people never heard of.
When I started to learn card-weaving I suddenly found myself with a whole lot of little lengths of different colored yarn. I wondered what I could do with them, because I like to repurpose things and not throw anything away. I have been learning to weave rugs from scrap fabric, so it occurred to me to see if it would be practical to use up the bits of yarn by hooking a rug. That is when stumbled across a post about using the locker hooking technique with fabric scraps. So for my first project I decided to combine both yarn and fabric scraps to make a small pouch. The sides and handle of the pouch are card-woven.
Shown above is my first locker hooked project, a pouch to protect one of the looms I bought on Etsy. Most people who locker hook (and there do not seem to be many of us) use a standard sized rug hooking mesh, which is rather expensive and does not come in a lot of sizes. Therefore, the tools needed for locker hooking do not come in a lot of sizes either.
Before buying anything I wanted to give this craft a try, so I looked around the house for some kind of mesh. I found a little circle of the non-skid material that is sold to keep bowls from sliding around when stirring in the kitchen. Then I carved a double ended crochet hook out of a chopstick. Well, when it worked, let's just say I was hooked on locker hooking. Now I have another way to make all sorts of custom pouches to attach to my card-woven straps.
