How To Make A Sisal Rope Rug

I also used an old fitted sheet for the bottom of the rug but you can use any type of fabric sheet or rubber backing to make it non slip.

How to make a sisal rope rug.

To make a chain start with a slip knot and place that on your crochet hook. Using rope and a plain mat as the base cami from the diy blog tidbits shares the tutorial for making this charming rug. You could also use this sisal rope to create coasters or plate chargers. For the rope i used 2 rolls of sisal rope that i picked up at the hardware store.

While winter brings to mind ornate wool rugs and sturdy but plain salt and snow soaked doormats summer rugs can be lighter and more playful. You can see clips of me demonstrating how to make this rug on the rachael ray show here. You can make your rug as big or as small as you d like. Our completed diy sisal rug measures 45 5 d using 7 rolls of 50 sisal rope.

Using the zigzag stitch tuck the end of the rope under your rug so it disappears from sight and sew over it to secure. Make sure you are working on top of a poster board or cardboard because the hot glue will drip through the rug pad. Place the end of the rope in the middle of the non stick rug pad and apply hot glue to adhere it in place. Buy and dye some dollar store clotheslines or recycle your old climbing ropes and get to knitting crocheting coiling or just good old fashioned gluing.

Hold it down for a minute to secure it while the glue dries. To finish the rug use your fabric strip to wrap your end of the rope similar to how you wrapped the rope at the beginning of the rug just make sure the end of the rope is covered and sew down the middle to secure. And pull that loop through the slip knot leaving you with only the new loop on the hook. There isn t really an exact formula to get your measurements you just want to make sure you have at least 3 5 different sizes my rug turned out to be approximately 24 5 x30 when i was finished and i used all of my sisal rope.

Be sure to check out what my friends made with their sisal rope they never disappoint with. Starting with one end of the rope roll it around itself a couple of times.