Make A Potholder Rug

I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style area rugs.

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. This rug is woven using the simple technique we once used to make potholders on little metal looms in kindergarten. Anyone can do it.

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. Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops. Pot holder area rugs. After a few minutes of chatting come to find out.

With a little bit of skill and a rag rug loom you can learn to weave simple crafts such as potholders. Use a wide zig zag stitch to join all the inside edges of the potholders. I used the loom kids make pot holders with and wove them together. Mi may 30 2013 at 6 25 am reply.

Make your own pot holder rug loom. Rag rugs are a great way to reuse old t shirts and other fabrics. For this potholder i put the loops on in random order but didn t put two of the same colour next to each other. Debbie october 5 2013 at 1 38 pm reply.

For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp. Of course i neglected to take a picture. I saw the most amazing woven alpaca bamboo and cotton shawls. Bring the pinned rug to your sewing machine.

I made a pot holder rug when my now 35 year old son was an infant. With the potholder rug kit and additional refills you can create and connect potholders to make a rug as big as you wish. It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug. 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.

How to make a potholder rug. As a child it was a fun craft project that you often gave to a parent. The sunshine rug kit comes with balls of a multicolored cord made from cut and sewn socks certain to. 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.