How to make a very easy tied denim shag rug 1.
How to make a denim rag rug.
It involves braiding strips of t shirt or other fabric and inter weaving your rug as you braid to shape your rug.
Use scissors to cut strips out of old denim jeans that measure 3 inches wide by 12 inches long each.
Use thumb tacks to hold the waistband in place as the glue dries.
Pin the three strips together at one end with a safety pin.
Place the ikea rug on a foam board cover the back of the waistband and the rug with glue stick the waistband to the rug.
You can create a circular rug or even fold your braid back and forth to make a bath mat or a long rectangular runner.
Arrange the strips so that the folded edge faces the outer upper edges.
This will look nice and neat.
Remove pockets zippers hems and waistbands using sewing shears to cut the heavy.
Cut the strips into.
Cut the denim into 3 4 inch wide strips along the length of the fabric from the waist to the jean s leg hems.
This denim rug also happens to be an ikea hack.
Braid the three denim strips into a tight braid.
The denim rug tutorials 1.
Pin the center to the canvas with the end of the denim strip extending 1 beyond the edge of the canvas.
Wash and dry the denim items.
One at a time pin the denim strips to the canvas backing.
Waistband denim rug pillarboxblue.
Fold a denim strip in half lengthwise to determine the center.
This tutorial gets around this by showing you how to make a no sew blue jean rug.
Instructions cut the waistband to the length of the rug.
Pin the end of.
When you braid keep the braid flat.
Sewing denim can be difficult especially with the thick parts such as the seams and waistbands.
This is probably the easiest and simplest ways to make your first rag rug.
Fold the strips so the nice side of the denim faces out.