Make A Potholder Rug

Debbie october 5 2013 at 1 38 pm reply.

Make a potholder rug.

Bring the pinned rug to your sewing machine. Make your own pot holder rug loom. Mi may 30 2013 at 6 25 am reply. Loops can be added in random colours or you can make a pattern by grouping colours or alternating the colours evenly.

How to make a potholder rug. Rag rugs are a great way to reuse old t shirts and other fabrics. I made a pot holder rug when my now 35 year old son was an infant. Pot holder area rugs.

It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug. With a little bit of skill and a rag rug loom you can learn to weave simple crafts such as potholders. This rug is woven using the simple technique we once used to make potholders on little metal looms in kindergarten. 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.

Anyone can do it. For this potholder i put the loops on in random order but didn t put two of the same colour next to each other. All the horizontal loops are from black t shirts. After a few minutes of chatting come to find out.

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. I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style 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. For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp.

The potholder rug kit sunshine braided woven rug kit and sock and looper rug kit are not limited by the potholder size. As a child it was a fun craft project that you often gave to a parent. The concept is fairly simple involving only a bit of simple weaving and is an excellent craft for children as well. With the potholder rug kit and additional refills you can create and connect potholders to make a rug as big as you wish.

The sunshine rug kit comes with balls of a multicolored cord made from cut and sewn socks certain to. Of course i neglected to take a picture. Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops. I used the loom kids make pot holders with and wove them together.