Make A Potholder Rug

The sunshine rug kit comes with balls of a multicolored cord made from cut and sewn socks certain to.

Make a potholder rug.

It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug. How to make a potholder rug. 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. I used the loom kids make pot holders with and wove them together.

For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp. This rug is woven using the simple technique we once used to make potholders on little metal looms in kindergarten. The concept is fairly simple involving only a bit of simple weaving and is an excellent craft for children as well. Bring the pinned rug to your sewing machine.

With a little bit of skill and a rag rug loom you can learn to weave simple crafts such as potholders. For this potholder i put the loops on in random order but didn t put two of the same colour next to each other. Mi may 30 2013 at 6 25 am reply. Use a wide zig zag stitch to join all the inside edges of the potholders.

Chances are when you were a kid you took bands of colored fabric and wrapped them around a plastic peg to make a colorful hand woven pot holder. The potholder rug kit sunshine braided woven rug kit and sock and looper rug kit are not limited by the potholder size. Of course i neglected to take a picture. I saw the most amazing woven alpaca bamboo and cotton shawls.

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. Debbie october 5 2013 at 1 38 pm reply. As a child it was a fun craft project that you often gave to a parent. Pot holder area rugs.

I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style area rugs. With the potholder rug kit and additional refills you can create and connect potholders to make a rug as big as you wish. After a few minutes of chatting come to find out. All the horizontal loops are from black t shirts.

Rag rugs are a great way to reuse old t shirts and other fabrics. Make your own pot holder rug loom. Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops. Anyone can do it.