Make A Potholder Rug

I used the loom kids make pot holders with and wove them together.

Make a potholder rug.

It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug. How to make a potholder rug. 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. All the horizontal loops are from black t shirts.

Loops can be added in random colours or you can make a pattern by grouping colours or alternating the colours evenly. 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. With a little bit of skill and a rag rug loom you can learn to weave simple crafts such as potholders. Debbie october 5 2013 at 1 38 pm reply.

Bring the pinned rug to your sewing machine. Anyone can do it. Mi may 30 2013 at 6 25 am reply. For this potholder i put the loops on in random order but didn t put two of the same colour next to each other.

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. I made a pot holder rug when my now 35 year old son was an infant. I saw the most amazing woven alpaca bamboo and cotton shawls.

Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops. For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp. I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style area rugs. The concept is fairly simple involving only a bit of simple weaving and is an excellent craft for children as well.

Make your own pot holder rug loom. 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. Pot holder area rugs. The potholder rug kit sunshine braided woven rug kit and sock and looper rug kit are not limited by the potholder size.

Pick a contrasting thread to add dimension to your rug or go neutral it s up to you. This rug is woven using the simple technique we once used to make potholders on little metal looms in kindergarten. After a few minutes of chatting come to find out. Use a wide zig zag stitch to join all the inside edges of the potholders.