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Hooked on Locker Hooking 2025: Your Step-by-Step Starter Guide!
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Nov 20, 2024
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so you're looking for a new craft
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project look no further I've got a
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fabulous project for you it's something
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called Locker hooking if you've never
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heard of it don't worry I'm going to
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talk you through the whole thing you can
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make cute Bangles like this one or bags
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how about a nice bag to take everywhere
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you go or perhaps you'd like to cover
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notebooks and make them unique it's up
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to you it's a really versatile craft and
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it's really cheap to get into you stay
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around to the end I'm going to show you
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how you can get your hands on all these
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projects and lots more so let's get into
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the basics and let's show you how this
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craft is for you so the basics for
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Locker hooking are some rug canvas and I
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recommend the 3.75 holes per inch cuz
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it's a bit easier than the smaller one
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you're going to need a needle with a
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wide eye for doing your ends in and for
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doing your whip stitching some
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scissors and a locker hooking needle
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which I will show you later I forgot to
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show you at this point
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um and you're going to need some yarn
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that you're actually going to do your
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locker hooking with and you're going to
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need something else that's thinner that
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you're going to use as your medium now
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you can use anything you like and I like
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to use this fabric yarn because it's
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really good for getting a really good
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effect um on my website you can see how
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to make your own fabric yarn so if
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you're going to make the sampler like me
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you're going to cut a rectangle 14
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squares by 20 squares
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and you just cut along and make sure you
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don't cut into to that side that you
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want but you do want to cut off all the
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little sticky out bits firstly they ruin
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your project at the end you know you
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have them sticking out and secondly
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they're really annoying so just make it
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a nice tidy rectangle of your rug canvas
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so you need to fold two squares over all
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the way around so I've deliberately cut
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mine so you can see I'm folding along
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the blue but you really don't have to
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just use wherever on your rug
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canvas so you can see I'm just folding
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two squares so that we can see exactly
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how it's going to be now when we fold
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over we obviously end up with it far too
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thick in the corner so you just need to
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cut that corner away now you know where
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the corner is cuz you've marked it
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you'll see my scissors are pretty poor
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and that's because I like to use some
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poor sciss SC some old scissors for
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cutting the rug canvas don't ruin your
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brand new dress making scissors on rug
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canvas it's quite tough it's coated and
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it's just quite tough so you cut out all
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four corners and then you're ready to
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fold those edges over so what I
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recommend is that you move to some paper
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that you're not bothered about I just
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use a page so a few pages of scrap paper
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cuz we're going to glue those edges down
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and you're going to going to get glue
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all over whatever's underneath so just
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refold and pinch it nice and tight so
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you know it's going to stay there
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hopefully um and what you'll realize is
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that the corners you really have to be
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careful to get it lined up because you
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need to keep those holes so that you can
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get your locker hooking needle and your
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yarn
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through so start on one side and just
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apply some glue I'm using tacky glue so
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that or something similar a little
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fabric glue would be fine
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run it along that edge you can see I got
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a bit too much at one
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end and then you're just going to press
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it down so you can see there's no really
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a good way to avoid getting it
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underneath or indeed on your fingers so
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just press it down until it'll just hold
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itself
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there doesn't need to be glued fully yet
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but you just want it to hold well enough
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and I can't stress enough just make sure
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everything lines up so that you keep
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nice clear
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holes and then you're going to move on
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to the next
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side so just add your
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glue fold it
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over and make sure it lines up now if
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you're having any trouble with any of it
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lining up particularly in the corners
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just get a little pencil or your needle
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or something and just push it through
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and make sure you can still get through
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those
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squares and then just keep working all
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the way around
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you can see I'm just having to hold it a
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little while and it still wants to pop
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up but then once you get all four done I
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recommend placing it under something
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heavy while it dries um I've got an old
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book that I used that I'm not bothered
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about it was going to go to the charity
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shop and I just kept it for this purpose
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a great big old reader digest gardening
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book and then once it's dry you're ready
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to start so we don't start with Locker
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hook
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we start by cutting a length of your
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chosen yarn and doing some whip
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stitching around the edge now if you've
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never never done whip stitching don't
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worry I'm going to show you doesn't
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matter if you go from left to right or
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right to left and if you go in from the
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top or up from the bottom it's a
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personal preference what you do need to
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do is start somewhere along the side do
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not start at a corner we don't need any
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complications there so go through with
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your needle and just leave a little tail
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and that's just is going to lie along
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the edge of your
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canvas and then bring the needle and go
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back through the next hole along in the
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same direction you went the first
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one and then pull that through now if
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you're using a fabric yarn like me it's
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up to you whether you smooth it nice and
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flat or keep it all roed up and give it
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a bit of texture the great thing about
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Locker hooking is the creativity it's
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exactly how you want it to be not
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somebody else
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and you can see as a work along I'm just
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trapping that
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tail and that's the
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idea and mine's lying quite flat but you
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can see I'm not obsessive about getting
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it smooth so I'm just going to work to
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the corner so I can talk to about the
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corner and then all of my whip stitching
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will be done as if by Magic and when you
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get to the end of your whip stitching
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you're just going to feed a tail through
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so when you get to the corner just go as
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normal
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get that whip Stitch you may find it a
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bit trickier just cuz it's on the corner
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with all that bulk but then go back into
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the same hole
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again to make sure you get plenty of
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whip stitch on that corner and if you've
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got a fabric yarn like mine you can take
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a bit of time to arrange it and make
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sure it covers that corner nicely and
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then just carry on exactly as you were
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doing before if you're doing a big
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project and you run out of thread along
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the way that's okay just leave a tail
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and then carry on and fasten that tail
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in so just go all the way around and it
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just gives you a nice Edge to your
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project and it means you can never see
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that canvas so keep going
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and that's the edge of your project
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done so as if by Magic mine will be
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done and you can see I've got a little
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tail left and all I'm going to do is
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feed it through through a couple of
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Loops now if you're using ordinary wool
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and yarn you might go through quite a
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few Loops to secure it if you're using
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fabric like mine a couple three that's
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probably going to be enough because it
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really does hold it tight and it's also
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very difficult to get it through
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sometimes you're trying to get a lot of
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bulk
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through and then you can just cut that
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tail off and you're ready for Locker
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hooking and as promised I am actually
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going to show you the locker hooking
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needles you can get them in different
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sizes and we're going to use a standard
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what they call a medium you may want
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medium or a large but that I'm showing
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you now is a small one and you really
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don't want to be using that on a project
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like this you want that big fat eye and
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the big hook to try and catch that thick
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fabric if you're using a really small
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square and really fine yarn then you
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might want the small one but to be
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honest you won't very often want the
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small one
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so let's get our yarn so the first thing
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we're going to do is get our locker
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hooking medium and that's the bit that's
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going to secure everything so I'm just
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using some old yarn that I've
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got and it's a cotton yarn which flows
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through nice and easily it's nice and
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smooth but really just find any old yarn
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you've got just bear in mind it may show
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in places so you might want to consider
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the
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color so the first thing you're going to
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do is cut a length of that and thread it
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through the eye of the needle of your
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locker hooking needle and we're going to
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start in one
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corner and the pile medium that I'm
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going to make my Loops out of is just
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underneath and all I'm going to do is
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hook it through I noticed I haven't cut
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a length I'm just using it off the ball
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and I'm going to pull it
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through It's Tricky it's in that corner
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remember how many times we've been
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through there
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already if you have any trouble get your
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fingers in there and pull
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it there we go we've got a nice big loop
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now put my hook back in and then just
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pull it back down to form a proper
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Loop and then you simply put your locker
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hook
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needle back down through the next hole
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now I recommend holding your pile medium
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quite tort so you can hook it on nice
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and easily you'll find different ways of
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hooking it on your fingers and goes with
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what works for
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you and you just keep
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repeating now when you start you might
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want to do one loop at a time or you
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might be prepared to go two or three but
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I certainly wouldn't do more than four
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Loops before you pull your needle
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through and you can see I'm having a bit
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of trouble and that's because it's the
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edge row where we've already done the
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whip stitching so don't worry it gets
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easier and
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easier so push the needle through and
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just leave a tail and you're leaving a
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tail tail that's long enough for you to
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finish it off shortly so if you leave it
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really short you just make the job
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harder and then I'm just going to carry
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on so it's needle through hook the pile
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medium and then take the needle through
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and you can see that first row
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appearing and then we're just going to
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keep going until we get to the
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end again the end one's going to be
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difficult so you might want to do it
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separate
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see just push it through you'll
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manage and then we're going to
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turn there are two ways to do this and
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I'm going to show you both of them in
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this tutorial so the obvious way is just
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to start in the next hole to come
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back and carry on as you were
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before so you can see always tricky on
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the edge one and then I'll just do a few
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get myself going long you see how the
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two Edge holes are trickier just because
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we've got that doubled over canvas and
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then how much easier it is as you move
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along and then just pull and you'll see
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a little loop at the end there and
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that's it you've turned and gone back
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the other way and if you're happy with
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that that's great I have a preference
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and I prefer the other method of turning
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which I'm going to show you when I
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eventually get to the end
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okay so let's do that last
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Stitch there we go now what you can do
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is take your locker hooking needle
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through and then come back the other way
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so you're going to push it down through
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a
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hole take that lock H medium to the
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back and then bring it back up through a
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different hole
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and that way you don't end up with that
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little loop on the end does it matter no
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it's just a personal
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preference so that's just my personal
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preference and then you can just keep
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going as before and work your way back
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I'm hoping that what you'll find is that
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as you get going you get a rhythm and
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it's actually really relaxing and nice
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to do you tend to see me wrestling with
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the edge bits cuz we're doing such a
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small piece but actually when you get
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going it is really
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relaxing and you get to the point where
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your Loops tend to be pretty even just
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naturally because you get better and
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better now when I get to there I'm
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finished with that pile medium I've done
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that burgundy one so I'm just going to
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cut it off but I'm leaving my locker
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hooking medium in the hook because I'm
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just going to change color and I'm
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actually going to set off in a different
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direction there's nothing to stop you
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you can do little bits diagonally you
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can do patterns there's lots of things
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you can do with Locker hooking I'm just
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showing you the
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basics so you can see this one's a bit
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thicker it's going to cause me some
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problems but I like the effect it's
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going to give me I like to use the
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fabric yarn because I think that they
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really make good solid loops and a good
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solid project particularly if you're
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wanting to make bags or notebooks or
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something similar so all I'm going to do
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is take that ball again just like I did
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with the other one leave a
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tail pull the first bit up now you can
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see bit of trouble there just cuz it's
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so thick and I'm on that edge row and
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then this time I'm just going the other
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way so the loops will just lie the other
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way and then has no problem with doing
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that you see me wrestling with it so I'm
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really Keen to show you that cuz I want
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you to realize that's
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okay just keep going you know it's going
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to get easier once you haven't got a
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double layer and whip stitching in there
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as well and then you're just going to
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keep going and form whatever pattern you
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like and you can see the pattern if you
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pause the video in a moment you'll see
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the pattern that I've got on
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mine and you can copy that if you want
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to but once you finished you've got all
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these tails and we need to do something
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with them so we'll start with the locker
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hooking medium and all we're going to do
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is get that wide-eyed needle again
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thread it
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up and then you're going to feed it
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through Some Loops now don't feed it
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through the loops that you've just come
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out
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of go through the row next to
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it and just feed it through a few
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loops pull it through cut it off that'll
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just secure it that'll be absolutely
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fine you don't need to do any more than
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that repeat that for the rest and then
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when it comes to the pile medium we're
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going to do a very
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similar thing so thread them up a little
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bit harder cuz they're a bit thicker if
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they're anything like mine and this time
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you're going to go through one of the
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holes near
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the one that you're coming out of not
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the same one near to
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it and through to the
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front and then once you're right through
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to the front you're going to feed it
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through Some Loops just like you did
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with the locker hooking medium but this
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time it's going to be trickier just
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because it's so thick so as before if
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you just get it through a couple of them
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that's that's probably fine you can see
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I gave up with those and decided to go
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with the fatter one over here sometimes
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you may have to help it through and just
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keep pulling it through the loops with
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your fingers but persevere and get there
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and I also think if you do a larger
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project you might want to do your work
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your ends in as you're working your way
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along don't wait till the end but I just
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wanted to show you and then once you've
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done all your ends and cut them all off
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you've got your little project you could
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back it you could attach something to it
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this sky is the limit with Locker
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hooking so if you just want to keep an
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eye on the pattern and copy it you could
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pause the video here so that you can
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still see
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it but thank you for staying with me
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through the whole video and I hope
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you're really excited to get started
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with Locker hooking or indeed if you've
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already started I hope you're enjoying
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it now I did say at the beginning I'd
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it includes all these projects and all
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nuances hints and tips and you'll know
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know so if you'd like to join me in
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and a link on the screen and there's a
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join me in there but either way happy
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Locker hooking
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