How To Make A Potholder Rug

How to make a potholder rug.

How to make a potholder rug. This rug is woven using the simple technique we once used to make potholders on little metal looms in kindergarten. The most popular color. I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style area rugs. Well you re in luck because here they come.

Rag rugs are a great way to reuse old t shirts and other fabrics. 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. It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug. 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. Mi may 30 2013 at 6 25 am reply. 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. There are 100 potholder rug loom for sale on etsy and they cost 37 06 on average.

The concept is fairly simple involving only a bit of simple weaving and is an excellent craft for children as well. Anyone can do it. The most common potholder rug loom material is cotton. All the horizontal loops are from black t shirts.

Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops. I made a pot holder rug when my now 35 year old son was an infant. Bring the pinned rug to your sewing machine. For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp.

Pick a contrasting thread to add dimension to your rug or go neutral it s up to you. I used the loom kids make pot holders with and wove them together.