Make A Potholder Rug

Debbie october 5 2013 at 1 38 pm reply.

Make a potholder rug.

For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp. Pot holder area rugs. 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. Bring the pinned rug to your sewing machine.

The sunshine rug kit comes with balls of a multicolored cord made from cut and sewn socks certain to. I made a pot holder rug when my now 35 year old son was an infant. 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. With the potholder rug kit and additional refills you can create and connect potholders to make a rug as big as you wish.

Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops. I saw the most amazing woven alpaca bamboo and cotton shawls. Anyone can do it. Of course i neglected to take a picture.

This rug is woven using the simple technique we once used to make potholders on little metal looms in kindergarten. Make your own pot holder rug loom. Mi may 30 2013 at 6 25 am reply. How to make a potholder rug.

As a child it was a fun craft project that you often gave to a parent. After a few minutes of chatting come to find out. All the horizontal loops are from black t shirts. I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style area rugs.

The potholder rug kit sunshine braided woven rug kit and sock and looper rug kit are not limited by the potholder size. I used the loom kids make pot holders with and wove them together. Rag rugs are a great way to reuse old t shirts and other fabrics. With a little bit of skill and a rag rug loom you can learn to weave simple crafts such as potholders.

It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug. The concept is fairly simple involving only a bit of simple weaving and is an excellent craft for children as well. Use a wide zig zag stitch to join all the inside edges of the 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.