Make A Potholder Rug

I made a pot holder rug when my now 35 year old son was an infant.

Make a potholder rug.

Debbie october 5 2013 at 1 38 pm reply. Mi may 30 2013 at 6 25 am reply. As a child it was a fun craft project that you often gave to a parent. With a little bit of skill and a rag rug loom you can learn to weave simple crafts such as potholders.

I used the loom kids make pot holders with and wove them together. I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style area rugs. It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug. Anyone can do it.

This rug is woven using the simple technique we once used to make potholders on little metal looms in kindergarten. 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. Of course i neglected to take a picture. 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.

For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp. Pot holder area rugs. With the potholder rug kit and additional refills you can create and connect potholders to make a rug as big as you wish. For this potholder i put the loops on in random order but didn t put two of the same colour next to each other.

Loops can be added in random colours or you can make a pattern by grouping colours or alternating the colours evenly. After a few minutes of chatting come to find out. Rag rugs are a great way to reuse old t shirts and other fabrics. Make your own pot holder rug loom.

The sunshine rug kit comes with balls of a multicolored cord made from cut and sewn socks certain to. Bring the pinned rug to your sewing machine. Use a wide zig zag stitch to join all the inside edges of the potholders. 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. The concept is fairly simple involving only a bit of simple weaving and is an excellent craft for children as well. Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops. All the horizontal loops are from black t shirts.