How To Make A Hula Hoop T Shirt Rug

I started small as a test so i ended up using both types of looms you can skip the cardboard and just use the hula hoop for bigger rugs.

How to make a hula hoop t shirt rug.

You will need 14 strips. It s a very good tutorial that you will find easy to follow along with. Supplies needed to make a t shirt rag rug. Cut off the hemmed bottom of all shirts and discard.

In this episode of craftster qucikies kittykill teaches you how to turn those old worn out t shirts into a fantastic woven rug using a hula hoop. Stretch these loops in pairs around the hula hoop in a pinwheel pattern. If you make one tell me how it goes. Push together two warp loops at the top of the hula hoop.

Repeat filling in the spaces until all 11 loops are in place. Hula hoop t shirt rug instructions video. How to make a rag rug. Use t shirt yarn.

The oversize looms and easy to use loops of t shirt fabric make these projects particularly appealing to beginning weavers. I made these rugs as a part of my silver award project for girl scouts. For the weft cut at least 50 loops from the remaining shirts. We have included a video above that shows you just how easy this project is.

Here is the perfect craft project to recycle old t shirts make a woven rug using hula hoop as a loom. If you don t have a hula hoop you can make a rug on a cardboard loom of any size by joining several pieces of cardboard together with glue and tape. You will start by cutting your t shirts into strips and this creates your t shirt yarn and you weave from the center out. It would be super fun to learn the basic hoop weaving technique by crafting a colorful accent rug to brighten up a room.

Click play above to view. Of course you can also use t shirt yarn as i did. Cut one shirt into one inch horizontal strips so that they are loops. Stretch one warp loop over the hula hoop.