How To Make A Potholder Rug

How to make a potholder rug.

How to make a potholder rug.

Well you re in luck because here they come. Anyone can do it. 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. The most common potholder rug loom material is cotton.

With a little bit of skill and a rag rug loom you can learn to weave simple crafts such as potholders. For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp. All the horizontal loops are from black t shirts. Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops.

Bring the pinned rug to your sewing machine. 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. Debbie october 5 2013 at 1 38 pm reply. There are 100 potholder rug loom for sale on etsy and they cost 37 06 on average.

This rug is woven using the simple technique we once used to make potholders on little metal looms in kindergarten. It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug. The most popular color. 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. Use a wide zig zag stitch to join all the inside edges of the potholders. The concept is fairly simple involving only a bit of simple weaving and is an excellent craft for children as well. I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style area rugs.

Pot holder area rugs. Mi may 30 2013 at 6 25 am reply.