- 1). Thread your needle with sturdy button thread. Set both rugs upside down in front of you, with the sides you want to connect next to each other.
- 2). Remove any edge binding from the sides of the rugs that will be joined. Bindings are generally hand-stitched, according to Rug Hooking 101.com, and are easily picked out and removed. Clip off the twill binding tape, leaving 2 inches excess on one end of each rug (opposite ends).
- 3). Sew and tie the thread into the backing material in a corner of one of the rugs to be joined. Sew through the backing material in the matching corner of the other rug. Pull the thread snug, but not so tight that it creates a bulge at the join. Continue sewing back and forth, from the edge of one rug to the other, sewing only through the edge row of the backing material.
- 4). Sew through every square of the backing material--the same squares that are used to hold the rug yarn material. Slide one hand under the seam and gently pull the rug yarn down (toward the top of the rug) before taking a stitch, to keep it from getting sewn into the seam between the two rugs.
- 5). Tighten each stitch equally, or the seam will be warped and puckered. Check regularly to see that you are sewing equal lengths of backing on each side, so that the final corners will match properly.
- 6). Finish the seam. Tie off the thread after the last stitch. Cut off the extra thread.
- 7). Rethread your needle. Fold the excess binding tape on one side over 1 inch. Lay it flat, so it overlaps raw edge of the binding tape trimmed from the other rug at the joint. Make a knot and insert your needle from the back of the rug, coming up through the binding, sew them together neatly. Finish with a knot, trim thread and repeat on the other side of the rug.
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