How To Make A Potholder Rug

The concept is fairly simple involving only a bit of simple weaving and is an excellent craft for children as well.

How to make a potholder rug.

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. Mi may 30 2013 at 6 25 am reply. Pick a contrasting thread to add dimension to your rug or go neutral it s up to you. How to make a potholder rug.

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. This rug is woven using the simple technique we once used to make potholders on little metal looms in kindergarten. Pot holder area rugs. Did you scroll all this way to get facts about potholder rug loom.

It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug. Anyone can do it. Bring the pinned rug to your sewing machine. I made a pot holder rug when my now 35 year old son was an infant.

I used the loom kids make pot holders with and wove them together. I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style area rugs. Use a wide zig zag stitch to join all the inside edges of the potholders. For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp.

With a little bit of skill and a rag rug loom you can learn to weave simple crafts such as potholders. Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops. Debbie october 5 2013 at 1 38 pm reply. The most popular color.

Well you re in luck because here they come. There are 100 potholder rug loom for sale on etsy and they cost 37 06 on average.