Hi... I have run into the same problem with the cut yarn fraying. You are not doing anything wrong and it is hard to avoid fraying when the kits are sold with cheap yarn in them. I have been trying to buy my kits at herrchners where the cut yarn included in their kits is much softerr. The kids I make pillow for like the soft yarn because they can actually put their head on the pillow. The inexpensive yarn is picky and pickier when it frays! The softer the yarn the less likely you will have trouble with fraying. Sometimes if the kit sells me bad yarn I will copy the instructions, buy my own hooked rug canvas and cut yarn from everything latch hook, then send back the kit.
It sure would be nice if someone would start selling just the instruction grids and yarn requirements then we could buy everything else ourselves. The yarn sold with the kits is so cheap. It is frustrating to work so long on a project and be given yarn that frays; resulting in a project that doesn't look as good as we'd like. The cut yarn you buy separately will result in a project you are much prouder of!
The other thing I started doing was creating my own hooked rug projects by going to the website left source.com and printing out my own instruction grids; using my own photos and images. I have done a wall hanging with my child's college insignia and name and am working on making a decorative set of throw pillow for my living room couches.
I hope my ideas help. Good Luck and happy latch hooking. It is one of my most favorite things to do to relax!

Hi There. Was wondering if you could direct me to the site you said where you can print your own projects out. I am from Sydney Australia and I can not find any shops that hold kits for latching. All my kits are bought from over seas and would love to design my own.
kangablue71@hotmail.com is my email if you'd like to send me a link.
thank you kindly :)

I have had this problem in the past. I found out that, most of the time, it is your latch hook itself. If it has any rough parts on the round part, that pulls the yarn through, it will fray the yarn. When I changed hooks, problem went away.

I have had this problem in the past. I found out that, most of the time, it is your latch hook itself. If it has any rough parts on the round part, that pulls the yarn through, it will fray the yarn. When I changed hooks, problem went away.

I have had this problem in the past. I found out that, most of the time, it is your latch hook itself. If it has any rough parts on the round part, that pulls the yarn through, it will fray the yarn. When I changed hooks, problem went away.

I have had this problem in the past. I found out that, most of the time, it is your latch hook itself. If it has any rough parts on the round part, that pulls the yarn through, it will fray the yarn. When I changed hooks, problem went away.

I have had this problem in the past. I found out that, most of the time, it is your latch hook itself. If it has any rough parts on the round part, that pulls the yarn through, it will fray the yarn. When I changed hooks, problem went away.

I have had this problem in the past. I found out that, most of the time, it is your latch hook itself. If it has any rough parts on the round part, that pulls the yarn through, it will fray the yarn. When I changed hooks, problem went away.

I have had this problem in the past. I found out that, most of the time, it is your latch hook itself. If it has any rough parts on the round part, that pulls the yarn through, it will fray the yarn. When I changed hooks, problem went away.

I think I've figured it out! It isn't the yarn quality that is the main issue. It's the connection between the tool's hook and latch.
My yarn was fraying so much that I slowed right down to look carefully at what the problem was. When pulling the yarn through, the yarn strand was somehow being pierced by the hook instead of wrapped around it, shredding the yarn as the stitch was finished.
I think that a loose or skewed connection between the end of the hook and the end of the latch means that the yarn gets split when it is pushed past the connection. Perhaps there are high-quality tools that never do that, but not mine!
My solution is to push the yarn right up into the hook, past the connection, after closing the latch but BEFORE pulling it through the canvas. It's not foolproof, and it's slow, but it's working much better now.