How To Make A Potholder Rug

Rag rugs are a great way to reuse old t shirts and other fabrics.

How to make a potholder rug.

Use a wide zig zag stitch to join all the inside edges of the potholders. Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops. 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.

There are 100 potholder rug loom for sale on etsy and they cost 37 06 on average. Bring the pinned rug to your sewing machine. The most common potholder rug loom material is cotton. I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style area rugs.

Did you scroll all this way to get facts about potholder rug loom. The concept is fairly simple involving only a bit of simple weaving and is an excellent craft for children as well. Mi may 30 2013 at 6 25 am reply. Anyone can do it.

I used the loom kids make pot holders with and wove them together. Pick a contrasting thread to add dimension to your rug or go neutral it s up to you. Well you re in luck because here they come. 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.

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. It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug. How to make a potholder rug. I made a pot holder rug when my now 35 year old son was an infant.

For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp. Debbie october 5 2013 at 1 38 pm reply.