How To Make A Cotton Rope Rug

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How to make a cotton rope rug.

Once secured with a rubber band fluff out the piping pieces so they have more of a fuzzy pom pom shape. Continue to twist the rope around until you get a large circle of rope. Keep turning the coil and joining new rope to the coil until you reach the end of your sewn and wrapped rope. Any kind of rope will work but i chose cotton clothesline because it s soft but durable.

Coil the rope until the rug is approximately 24 inches across or your desired width. I then decided to challenge myself by making a row out of loops. Once you coil a complete circle use a medium to long stitch length and the widest zigzag setting to sew between the ropes and join them together. To start out the rug make sure your on a flat slightly slippery surface such as a wood or tile floor.

The tails eventually become sewn as well and give more pop to the rug on this side. Next weave the cut cotton pieces in between the netting grid as shown in the photo. Take the beginning end of your wrapped and sewn rope and make a small clockwise coil. To get the desired result on the back fold the fabric around the rope like a hot dog bun on a hot dog and let the tails stay flat while you keep sewing around and around.

Plus it s super cheap so you can make a whole rug for less than 20. The cost of materials for a 5x8 rug totaled about 300. Sew with a wide zig zag stitch. Hold the coil down with your hands so it doesn t unravel.

Then pull the pieces upward and tie them together with a rubber band again as shown in the photo. Take one end of the rope and twist it in a circle as tight as you can as seen in the picture below. I continued gluing until i had approximately twelve rows. Firstly i bent the cotton sash cord around in a circular pattern glued in between and held the cord together for a few seconds.