How To Make A Rug Out Of Old Jeans

Upcycle your old blue jeans into awesome denim yarn for crochet knitting or weaving into denim rugs purses and more have you seen all of the posts lately about making yarn out of old t shirts.

How to make a rug out of old jeans.

That s pretty cool and so i thought why not try and make denim yarn that would be perfect for heavier rag rugs or purses and such. This video may help guide you along. I m so pleased with this rug. Making rugs out of old denim is one of my favourite ways to upcycle fabrics.

There are more ideas for diy blue jean rugs here too. Old clothing that is too worn out to donate is the perfect material for making rag rugs. There is more than one way to make a blue jean rug. Once you cut it up into strips you don t notice any holes or staining in the fabric.

In this video i m going to show you how to recycling old clothes fabric in to useful things. I wanted a fairly large rug so i just cut a piece of cardboard measuring 4 x 6. It s not like other fabrics. My family and friends know how much i love to upcycle denim so they happily hand me over their old jeans to repurpose.

A recycled bath towel provides the cushy backing. Hand made rug door mat carpets mate mats table mats diy recycl. I have also made a chevron denim rug out of the legs. I made this last week and couldn t believe how easy it was.

Some involve sewing others are a denim no sew upcycle. So gather up all of the supplies you need and enjoy making your thrifty throw rug out of recycled blue jeans. I ve made a video showing you the best way to cut up t shirts to make rag rugs. Hopefully it won t take too long.

There are some tricks when sewing with denim. You just need some old jeans scissors yarn one clothespin and a piece of cardboard cut to the size you want your rug to be. Two pair of blue jeans can create a pieced top to a simple throw rug. Here s a great diy tutorial to make a recycled rug out of old denim.

This project is easy to sew and can be finished in less than an hour. Once all the jeans are cut to stripes you will have to sew the stripes together so you can get a longer piece of material. So i m now saving up my denim scraps to make an even larger one. This makes it a great fabric to repurpose into a blue jean rug.