Make A Potholder Rug

It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug.

Make a potholder rug.

Loops can be added in random colours or you can make a pattern by grouping colours or alternating the colours evenly. All the horizontal loops are from black t shirts. Debbie october 5 2013 at 1 38 pm reply. For this potholder i put the loops on in random order but didn t put two of the same colour next to each other.

I used the loom kids make pot holders with and wove them together. Of course i neglected to take a picture. Pick a contrasting thread to add dimension to your rug or go neutral it s up to you. Pot holder area rugs.

I made a pot holder rug when my now 35 year old son was an infant. For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp. Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops. The sunshine rug kit comes with balls of a multicolored cord made from cut and sewn socks certain to.

I saw the most amazing woven alpaca bamboo and cotton shawls. With the potholder rug kit and additional refills you can create and connect potholders to make a rug as big as you wish. You ll likely be working with potholders of varying thicknesses so it might be wise to switch your machine s tension to 5 or 6. This rug is woven using the simple technique we once used to make potholders on little metal looms in kindergarten.

I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style area rugs. After a few minutes of chatting come to find out. Rag rugs are a great way to reuse old t shirts and other fabrics. Bring the pinned rug to your sewing machine.

Anyone can do it. The concept is fairly simple involving only a bit of simple weaving and is an excellent craft for children as well. I ve been wanting to make a loom for years but i hadn t thought about it in a long time until the des moines farmers market on saturday. As a child it was a fun craft project that you often gave to a parent.

Make your own pot holder rug loom. With a little bit of skill and a rag rug loom you can learn to weave simple crafts such as potholders. How to make a potholder rug. Use a wide zig zag stitch to join all the inside edges of the potholders.