How To Make A Hula Hoop T Shirt Rug

Repeat filling in the spaces until all 11 loops are in place.

How to make a hula hoop t shirt rug. Here is the perfect craft project to recycle old t shirts make a woven rug using hula hoop as a loom. 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. Of course you can also use t shirt yarn as i did. 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.

It would be super fun to learn the basic hoop weaving technique by crafting a colorful accent rug to brighten up a room. You will start by cutting your t shirts into strips and this creates your t shirt yarn and you weave from the center out. How to make a rag rug. Stretch these loops in pairs around the hula hoop in a pinwheel pattern.

Push together two warp loops at the top of the hula hoop. 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. If you make one tell me how it goes. Cut one shirt into one inch horizontal strips so that they are loops.

I made these rugs as a part of my silver award project for girl scouts. 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. The oversize looms and easy to use loops of t shirt fabric make these projects particularly appealing to beginning weavers. Use t shirt yarn.

Cut off the hemmed bottom of all shirts and discard. Click play above to view. Supplies needed to make a t shirt rag rug. For the weft cut at least 50 loops from the remaining shirts.

Add and secure a second loop perpendicular to the first. Stretch one warp loop over the hula hoop. It s a very good tutorial that you will find easy to follow along with. You will need 14 strips.