Make A Potholder Rug

Use a wide zig zag stitch to join all the inside edges of the potholders.

Make a potholder rug.

Pot holder area rugs. As a child it was a fun craft project that you often gave to a parent. It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug. Anyone can do it.

For this potholder i put the loops on in random order but didn t put two of the same colour next to each other. With a little bit of skill and a rag rug loom you can learn to weave simple crafts such as potholders. Rag rugs are a great way to reuse old t shirts and other fabrics. I saw the most amazing woven alpaca bamboo and cotton shawls.

Of course i neglected to take a picture. All the horizontal loops are from black t shirts. Pick a contrasting thread to add dimension to your rug or go neutral it s up to you. The potholder rug kit sunshine braided woven rug kit and sock and looper rug kit are not limited by the potholder size.

I made a pot holder rug when my now 35 year old son was an infant. Loops can be added in random colours or you can make a pattern by grouping colours or alternating the colours evenly. With the potholder rug kit and additional refills you can create and connect potholders to make a rug as big as you wish. Debbie october 5 2013 at 1 38 pm reply.

This rug is woven using the simple technique we once used to make potholders on little metal looms in kindergarten. The sunshine rug kit comes with balls of a multicolored cord made from cut and sewn socks certain to. Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops. Bring the pinned rug to your sewing machine.

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. I used the loom kids make pot holders with and wove them together. How to make a potholder rug. I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style area rugs.

For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp. After a few minutes of chatting come to find out. 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. Make your own pot holder rug loom.