Make A Potholder Rug

Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops.

Make a potholder rug.

With a little bit of skill and a rag rug loom you can learn to weave simple crafts such as potholders. The concept is fairly simple involving only a bit of simple weaving and is an excellent craft for children as well. Loops can be added in random colours or you can make a pattern by grouping colours or alternating the colours evenly. 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.

Pick a contrasting thread to add dimension to your rug or go neutral it s up to you. I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style area rugs. I made a pot holder rug when my now 35 year old son was an infant. Pot holder area rugs.

After a few minutes of chatting come to find out. All the horizontal loops are from black t shirts. For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp. 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.

Mi may 30 2013 at 6 25 am reply. Use a wide zig zag stitch to join all the inside edges of the potholders. It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug. I saw the most amazing woven alpaca bamboo and cotton shawls.

For this potholder i put the loops on in random order but didn t put two of the same colour next to each other. The potholder rug kit sunshine braided woven rug kit and sock and looper rug kit are not limited by the potholder size. Rag rugs are a great way to reuse old t shirts and other fabrics. 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.

As a child it was a fun craft project that you often gave to a parent. Debbie october 5 2013 at 1 38 pm reply. Anyone can do it. How to make a potholder rug.

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. With the potholder rug kit and additional refills you can create and connect potholders to make a rug as big as you wish. Of course i neglected to take a picture.