How To Make A Hula Hoop T Shirt Rug

It would be super fun to learn the basic hoop weaving technique by crafting a colorful accent rug to brighten up a room.

How to make a hula hoop t shirt rug.

Click play above to view. Hula hoop t shirt rug instructions video. Supplies needed to make a t shirt rag rug. I made these rugs as a part of my silver award project for girl scouts.

The oversize looms and easy to use loops of t shirt fabric make these projects particularly appealing to beginning weavers. Cut one shirt into one inch horizontal strips so that they are loops. In this episode of craftster qucikies kittykill teaches you how to turn those old worn out t shirts into a fantastic woven rug using a hula hoop. If you don t have a hula hoop you can make a rug on a cardboard loom of any size by joining several pieces of cardboard together with glue and tape.

If you make one tell me how it goes. Use t shirt yarn. Push together two warp loops at the top of the hula hoop. Repeat filling in the spaces until all 11 loops are in place.

How to make a rag rug. Cut off the hemmed bottom of all shirts and discard. It s a very good tutorial that you will find easy to follow along with. Add and secure a second loop perpendicular to the first.

This simple t shirt hula hoop rug is a great in front of the tv activity for teens and adults to upcycle those random t shirts. For the weft cut at least 50 loops from the remaining shirts. I started small as a test so i ended up using both types of looms you can skip the cardboard and just use the hula hoop for bigger rugs. Of course you can also use t shirt yarn as i did.

Here is the perfect craft project to recycle old t shirts make a woven rug using hula hoop as a loom. You will need 14 strips. Stretch these loops in pairs around the hula hoop in a pinwheel pattern. Stretch one warp loop over the hula hoop.