so they're basically going to be like three inch strips okay okay
hey everyone welcome back to my channel today we're gonna do some diy decor together a little
thrift and ikea flip i guess you already know that cause you clicked on the thumbnail which
means you also know that today we have a special guest it is home and decor diy extraordinaire
ikea flip master if you haven't met him yet drew from lobox hey everyone my name is drew and i am
the face and hands behind the channel known as lonefox um over on loanfox i create diy projects
room makeovers transformations hack videos basically anything relating to interior design
home decor or diy you can find it over on lonefox i'm gonna call drew and show him a
diy technique that he's never done before and on his channel you get to see him show me a new diy
technique we're gonna do it without seeing each other if this sounds familiar to any of you yes we
are taking notes from bon appetit's old show back to back chef to bring you back to back diy hi drew
hi wendy how are you good how are you i'm nervous i know i'm nervous too i'm so scared i mean i have
the supplies here in front of me and i think i'm i think i'll be okay i feel like you're probably
a good teacher so i think i should be pretty good i gave you the shopping supplies but i didn't tell
you what the project is we're going to be doing a latch hook rug it's going to be kind of shaggy
super super versatile on how you arrange the whole thing to come together i chose this to
play to your strengths so we're going to be doing something that is ikea flip something you're well
known for oh we love an ikea flip but it's going to have textiles which is a bit more of like i
guess what i usually do we're not going to be whipping out the sewing machine though i was
ready to sew and very complex wedding dress but i guess we'll just do that okay are you ready to
start yes let me go pull down my screen so i can't see you i have this card i'm going to cover this
as well so i can't see drew so the first thing we're going to do is did you get that stick of
yours that's like one and a half inches okay pick any of the yarns that you would like to start with
i'm grabbing this kind of like faint teal one of mine i have a faint teal one too so maybe i'll do
that just try to have like plenty of it available and you're going to take the stick place the yarn
perpendicular to it and wrap the yarn gently around the stick like keeping all of your
wraps the same size as you move your way along and make sure your thumb is still holding onto
the beginning of the yarn so that it stays right locked in and it should be ideally lined up with
the bottom edge of the stick my stick piece is probably like oh it says on here it's about 10
inches that should be good i feel like i've done roughly like 15 ish loops i have 11 here's 12
13 14 15. okay i have 15 also the yarn that's coming out should be leaving the same side of
the stick that the end of the first yarn was touching oh mine's behind it uh i just mean
like once they're on the same oh oh got it but i have left like a tail to start because
mine is like just the same exact width no tail like i don't have any tail no tail okay okay i
think we're in i think we're in a good place then now you're gonna make sure you have a firm grip
on the whole yarn so that when we cut this free end off none of the yarn is going to move from
where you've wrapped it oh my gosh i'm so scared so i just need to cut the tail that cut it off
now you should just have like a uniform wrap around the stick yes and then you're going to take
your sharp scissors and slide it in along that skinny edge the same skinny edge that's touching
the two raw yarn edges and you're going to cut all the yarns apart so that we create lots of little
yarn pieces do you know what i mean and they're all the same size yes so they're basically going
to be like three inch strips yeah okay okay okay i have i have 15 three inch strips okay put them
somewhere safe we're grabbing the latch hook tool just for some quick anatomy i'm going to refer
to the top bend as the hook i'm going to refer to the little stick that flops back and forth as the
hinge and then you'll be holding it by the large wooden handle do you see how there's a weave where
there's the wide yarns and then there's these tiny skinny yarns that hold them yes a nice warp and
left look at you go indeed wendy did you know that i was like basically kind of like a textile major
yeah i went to school for product development but for fashion product development so i did tech pack
and all that sort of stuff i see the thick strand though and i see the thin strand pick the one
that's like at the very center top i'm just going to slide the hook underneath it okay you slide the
hook part and you push in all the way so that the little hinge part passes through it too yes
got it and that's in the top middle right yep kind of where it's like a little bit thicker
because it's like doubled over doubled over like that you see how the ends folded back
on itself and then sewed should i be looping it through at the very start like the first
thin thin strand on the middle depending on how yours looks i feel like you could do the first
or the second got it i'll start i'll start a little bit in from the edge though so it
has like a little bit of a border so you've got the hook through you've got the hinge through
and then what i do is i twist the handle so that the bend of the neck points towards you so that
the handle feels like it's trying to be lifted from the rug do you know what i mean got it got
it okay so the hook should be upwards kind of hook pointing up great other way okay taking
your yarn you're going to slide it underneath your handle fold it in half so that the two
yarn ends are touching each other okay bring it all the way up towards the hook pull back on the
hook slightly so you can slowly see the hinge kind of close a little bit close yeah so my my strand
is folded over and the hinge is closed you're just going to bring these two loose ends down
in between the hook and the hinge and then pull all the way so that the hinge closes oh my gosh
oh my gosh wait so am i supposed to be having two pieces of our yarn that we cut or one piece
one yarn but it's two ends okay two ends okay so i folded it in half i have the folded end in my
right or my left hand and i have the two ends in my right hand so that i take the two ends
and put it in the hook yeah you lay it down so that it lan it comes down between the hook and
the hinge and then as you pull back on the handle the hinge naturally closes which now shuts these
two strands into the hook hinge door got it got it i think i i think i'm in the right position
if you think you are all you have to do now is pull backwards on the handle
to drag these two threads through the loop and they should pop out the other side
did it work well i don't know if are they supposed to like secure down or is it just
like kind of like stuck in that loop like i'm basically supposed to be like putting it through
pulling my loop through and then pulling the ends through the loop yay okay okay i got it i did
it okay so now if you want to you can continue to add more loops in that surrounding area and
once you get to a certain density it's going to start looking like one of those little shag rugs
does that make sense yeah for sure i'm like so scared to like look at this later and realize
that you were doing it completely differently i'm actually doing it i already have three of them
in okay good i'm gonna send you some inspo so you can see like some possible designs the nice thing
about this is you can undo it and rearrange it if you decide you want to go for like a different
design just going to show on my side we did like a full thing over here this took a lot of work
are you trying to do like a more abstract design you can also do like grids and diamonds and waves
i can just imagine this taking like a while to really fill in yeah you might want to pick one of
the less crazy options wait sorry we also didn't talk about how to remove the ikea inbuilt ropes
oh oh okay so we need to remove these little ropes that are across yeah yeah yeah you're just
gonna undo the knots that are at the end okay i wish you could just pull it out all in one go
but i have found through experience you kind of have to just yank it out section by section
oh yeah okay unless any of these fit your design scheme like i personally plan on
pulling all of them out okay so i pulled out the whole teal rope it's completely gone can
i show you one last thing yes pick another yarn that either is like your skinniest yarn
or as a yarn that frays very like voluptuously okay i think this one should cut it so that
it's like 10 inches long should be good enough okay so i have my 10 inch section decide where
on your rug you would like to insert a horizontal line design you insert the latch hook tool
and shove all of the free ends into it so that the latch of tool is basically just helping you
get them all to pass through yeah yeah okay got it use the latch hook put it under
the next strand over we're just pulling the same strand through like solo through basically those
thin strands so in a line kind of yeah yeah yeah but you basically just do one at a time and then
you just go across yeah and then this helps you create little line but i feel like the
cute part is that you keep the fringe yeah it'll have like a nice fringy beginning and
end oh my gosh wendy this is gonna take 800 hours no no no no no just pick one that's like a simple
design so that you can just like lo concentrate all the action in one area
oh okay i wasn't sure if i needed to fill in this entire rug no i mean obviously you could but okay
i need exactly one month i'll be back in a month okay i have almost the entire horizontal strip
in there it looks so cute when you do it like this imagine you would like
variate where these lines are of different lengths and whatnot all right
true tomorrow i'm going to call you and we're going to see what you make okay i'm scared i'm
scared and i'll show you what i've been working on this whole time too are you cool with that
yes i'm good with that thanks i'll talk to you tomorrow okay okay bye while drew works on his
grug i'm going to flip a few more things to give our entrance a little bit of a makeover i feel
like it's pretty obvious why i want to do that i'm like not nuts about this metal door and then this
is just kind of like where garbage and recycling always piles up before it finally leaves our house
i kind of wish there was a way to like hide it a bit better just make it look a little cuter so i
wouldn't have to keep dodging around this corner so let's tackle that today goodbye ugly entryway
see you never again i have this thrifted king-sized bed sheet with these thin little
red stripes as well as this ikea light cord to help me out i'm going to be using some
ribbon yarn air dry clay plaster of paris school glue just a little bit and dirt
to get a head start on the project that does need to dry overnight i rolled out my air dry clay into
a single sheet with free form torn edges and then i placed that on top of a large mixing bowl you
can use some water to smooth out the bumps and the cracks but most importantly i used my lamp
cord as a guide to cut out a hole at the bottom of the bowl it is good to expand the hole ever
so slightly so it's sure to fit in the finished product but just make sure it stays smaller than
this removable disk because that is going to help secure it in place looking back it might have been
easier to use the inside of the bowl since i think the air dry clay seems to contract as it
dries you can see that it is a little bit beat up from dan and i trying all sorts of methods to get
it off the bowl safely the mixing bowl is intact she did survive if you want it to have a more raw
earthen texture mix four tablespoons of plaster of paris with two tablespoons of water give a
hearty squirt of school glue and then add a half tablespoon of dirt all of this will create a thick
paste which can be spread out on the clay using a toothbrush this was my original inspo image and so
we used a thick comb to actually create our wavy texture and i feel like it worked out really well
if you're going to do this don't mix too much plaster of paris at once because it does start
to harden as soon as it's mixed so just go section by section once it is dry a light
sanding with a relatively fine grit will reveal the dirt and smooth out any of the rough spots
it kind of creates this nice aged look but also a bit cookies and cream next up is the king size bed
sheet i spread this out on the floor and i tried a couple of shapes to see what i liked after i
arched it out i felt way better my ribbon is a dyed chiffon and there is a slight ombre texture
that i thought would look nice i purposefully only pinned the arched part so that the rest of
the ribbon could hang naturally from gravity it is time to put it all together my arched mirror
is a diy from a video earlier this year and with all these elements together i was hoping for an
artsy calm desert vibe hopefully you see that too so i hung the lamp and i used a tension rod
for the curtain i've been putting off doing this but i feel like it needs to be repotted to get
out of this planter and fully into this one i'm kind of nervous these are very spiky way spikier
than they appear this plant is key i think to the desert look here's how our entrance looked before
and here is how it looks after the curtain makes it super easy to hide the door and any clutter out
of sight and it also makes this corner look so much cuter for when i use the mirror i'm really
happy with how the lampshade turned out i kind of want to make an even bigger one in the future
and this rug this was a lot of hours of latch hooking two years ago i went to joshua tree with
some friends and i think the airbnb we stayed at is still stuck with me so i tried to create
natural shapes kind of like the cold picnic rugs that i love so much and like tapestry weaving
rug hooking is a great evening activity while you're watching tv or catching up on youtube
drew says he is done so it's time to give him a call and see what he made hello drew hello wendy
are you excited to show your rug i want to see what you did now i do want to mention to you that
i finished about i would say half of it because i'm actually going to leave the center kind
of like a little bit blank and do more like the decorate decorative accents on the ends saw one of
your inspirations that you had sent with kind of like the bubbles of color i took that and then i
also added some lines as well so it's kind of like a little abstract i feel like this is all heading
in a good direction i'm so excited here it is oh i really like it this is very true yes so basically
what i'm thinking is i want to do this end here and then also do this and here and leave the
center maybe open because these three colors are literally the exact three colors that are in my
palette here so i feel like it kind of coordinates a little bit um and then i did some circles and
then all the blue circles are like empty so i didn't fill those blue ones in and then all of the
orange and yellow and gray ones are full and then i did a couple of strips across here of just the
dark black one which i think adds a little bit of interest to it this is gonna be so fun it's like
the middle is where you walk and the two sides are like the the passing flower fields exactly 100
but that's my that's my little rug design and i loved it i feel like i got a good progress
done but i'm going to do the rest of it oh oh i wanted to tell you something that i know that
i recognize too which i think makes the process quicker i doubled up every single strand that i
and that just made it fill up so much quicker and it just made it more fluffy um without having to
do any extra work me and my assistant literally spent hours and i was like never doing this again
it's like this oh my gosh you really filled it in there's like a kind of like mountain-ish
shape looks like a cheese square and then this side has a circle that kind of has like a line
that cuts through it that's so good that is just such your the colors are so pretty too
i need to warn people if you want to do this it is
back-breaking amounts of work it looks so good though it literally looks like you bought it
like that yeah and if you guys haven't seen any of drew's content before please go subscribe he's
so gifted with decor he has such great taste i know so many friends personally who have gotten
really great ideas from watching his channel thank you wendy so kind of you thanks so much drew for
being in today's video we'll see you over there on his channel thank you bye everyone bye here we go