Make Your Personal Woven Rag Rug

Anybody could make this woven rag rug, and it’s SO simple to customise it to be any dimension, form, or coloration you want in your house.

I wished to make a woven rag rug that was cute, woven, comparatively simple for a first-time rug maker. After a little bit of analysis, I discovered the proper woven rug that matches all my wants!

If in case you have just a few outdated bedsheets round, that is the proper method to make use of them (and get an lovely rug out of the method).

Provides:
-3 king-size flat cotton bedsheets
-piece of cardboard (23″ x 43″)
–cloth scissors
–masking tape
-marker
–clear ruler

Step One: Use your ruler and marker to make a mark each 2″ throughout the longest facet of every of your bedsheets. Use cloth scissors to make a 2″ reduce at every mark.

Step Two: At every reduce, rip the material aside (it ought to tear evenly all the way in which throughout the sheet). Repeat this course of till every sheet is ripped into even strips. Separate strips by coloration and sample.

Step Three: On every of the brief ends of your cardboard, begin 2″ from every finish and mark 2″ lengthy traces each 1/2″. Use scissors to chop 2″ slots at every mark. 

Step 4: Collect three cloth strips of varied colours into a gaggle, fold the group in half lengthwise, and place one finish into the primary slot (it ought to hold over the sting just a few inches).

Place the opposite finish into the corresponding spot on the other facet. If in case you have quite a lot of strings hanging off the edges of your strips, try to pull the large clumps of strings off earlier than you place into the cardboard slots.

Repeat this course of for every strip throughout the cardboard. It can get fairly full after you could have just a few teams positioned, however simply hold going till you might be achieved.

Step 5: Designate one coloration as your weaving strip, and wrap a chunk of masking tape round one finish to make it simpler to weave by the strips.

Beginning about 2″ in from the top of your cardboard slots, start to weave the weaving strip below and over every group till you get to the opposite facet.

Be sure to go away a 6″ tail at your starting spot (you’ll lengthen this on the finish). As a result of the cardboard is so full, the primary row of weaving would be the hardest because it’s troublesome to inform one group from one other.

Simply do the perfect you may—for those who get just a few strips into the improper bunch, it gained’t make a distinction on the finish.

When you get to the opposite finish together with your weaving strip, make a U-turn by going over or below the final bunch (whichever is required relying on the place you find yourself), and weave your method again to the opposite facet (it needs to be a lot simpler this time).

As you end every row, straighten out the weaved strip together with your fingers and slide it as near the row earlier than it as you may.

Repeat the weaving course of till you’re about 2″ from the cardboard slots on the opposite finish of the rug. Be sure to concentrate to the width of your rug as you go, and hold it as whilst you may.

This kind of weaving offers you quite a lot of management over your width since you may merely tighten or loosen your strip as you make the flip at every finish.

Once you get to the top of your weaving strip, you’ll need to be a part of a brand new strip to the present one so you may carry on weaving.

Reduce a slot into the top of your weaving strip and the start of your new strip, and pull an inch or two of your new strip by the slot on the present strip.

Move the tail finish of your new strip by the slot on the brand new strip and pull tight. Now you could have an extended strip! Hold doing that every time it’s essential lengthen your weaving strip.

Step Six: To complete the ends, make a U-turn across the final bunch the place your weaving ended, and thread your weaving strip down by the primary uncovered part of your final row of weaving (see above photograph).

Pull tight. Once more, cross over to the subsequent uncovered weaving and thread down by that part and pull tight. Proceed till you attain the top, and tie your weaving strip onto one of many strips within the final group of strips.

Repeat course of on the other finish (you’ll have to hitch a strip to elongate the tail of your starting weaving strip first).

Step Seven: You’re virtually achieved! Simply place a ruler or a chunk of cardboard inside the place you need to trim your ends and use cloth scissors to trim the surplus items. As soon as the ends are reduce, you may take away the cardboard backing.

You probably did it! You simply made a rug!

I’m fairly happy with my first try at rug making. I believe it’s simply what our house wanted (the colour appears so good with the DIY concrete countertop).

For those who want to purchase a hand-crafted rug, take a look at Elsie’s favourite rugs on Etsy (or our favourite rugs below $250). xo, Laura

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Woven Rag Rug

Methods to make a woven rag rug from torn cloth items.

• 3
  king-size
  flat sheets
  cotton

1. Use your ruler and marker to make a mark each 2″ throughout the longest facet of every of your bedsheets. Use cloth scissors to make a 2″ reduce at every mark.

2. At every reduce, rip the material aside, and it ought to tear evenly all the way in which throughout the sheet. Repeat course of till every sheet is ripped into even strips. Separate strips by coloration and sample.

3. On every of the brief ends of your cardboard, begin 2″ from every finish and mark 2″ lengthy traces each 1/2″. Use scissors to chop 2″ slots at every mark. 

4. Collect three cloth strips of varied colours into a gaggle, fold the group in half lengthwise, and place one finish into the primary slot (it ought to hold over the sting just a few inches).

   Place the opposite finish into the corresponding spot on the other facet. If in case you have quite a lot of strings hanging off the edges of your strips, try to pull the large clumps of strings off earlier than you place into the cardboard slots. Repeat this course of for every strip throughout the cardboard. It can get fairly full after you could have just a few teams positioned, however simply hold going till you might be achieved.

5. Designate one coloration as your weaving strip, and wrap a chunk of masking tape round one finish to make it simpler to weave by the strips. Beginning about 2″ in from the top of your cardboard slots, start to weave the weaving strip below and over every group till you get to the opposite facet.

   Be sure to go away a 6″ tail at your starting spot (you’ll lengthen this on the finish). As a result of the cardboard is so full, the primary row of weaving would be the hardest because it’s troublesome to inform one group from one other. Simply do the perfect you may, and for those who get just a few strips into the improper bunch, it gained’t make a distinction on the finish.

6. When you get to the opposite finish together with your weaving strip, make a U-turn by going over or below the final bunch (whichever is required relying on the place you find yourself), and weave your method again to the opposite facet (it needs to be a lot simpler this time). As you end every row, straighten out the weaved strip together with your fingers and slide it as near the row earlier than it as you may.

   Repeat the weaving course of till you might be about 2″ from the cardboard slots on the opposite finish of the rug. Be sure to concentrate to the width of your rug as you go, and hold it as whilst you may. This kind of weaving offers you quite a lot of management over your width since you may merely tighten or loosen your strip as you make the flip at every finish.

7. Once you get to the top of your weaving strip, you’ll need to be a part of a brand new strip to the present one so you may carry on weaving. Reduce a slot into the top of your weaving strip and the start of your new strip.

   Pull an inch or two of your new strip by the slot on the present strip. Move the tail finish of your new strip by the slot on the brand new strip, and pull tight. Now you could have an extended strip! Hold doing that every time it’s essential lengthen your weaving strip.

8. To complete the ends, make a U-turn across the final bunch the place your weaving ended, and thread your weaving strip down by the primary uncovered part of your final row of weaving (see above photograph). Pull tight. Once more, cross over to the subsequent uncovered weaving and thread down by that part and pull tight.

   Proceed till you attain the top, and tie your weaving strip onto one of many strips within the final group of strips. Repeat course of on the other finish (you’ll have to hitch a strip to elongate the tail of your starting weaving strip first).

9. Place a ruler or a chunk of cardboard inside the place you need to trim your ends and use cloth scissors to trim the surplus items. As soon as the ends are reduce, you may take away the cardboard backing.