How To Make A Hula Hoop T Shirt Rug

Supplies needed to make a t shirt rag rug.

How to make a hula hoop t shirt rug.

I made these rugs as a part of my silver award project for girl scouts. You will start by cutting your t shirts into strips and this creates your t shirt yarn and you weave from the center out. You will need 14 strips. The oversize looms and easy to use loops of t shirt fabric make these projects particularly appealing to beginning weavers.

Repeat filling in the spaces until all 11 loops are in place. How to make a rag rug. 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. Of course you can also use t shirt yarn as i did.

Use t shirt yarn. We have included a video above that shows you just how easy this project is. 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. It s a very good tutorial that you will find easy to follow along with.

It would be super fun to learn the basic hoop weaving technique by crafting a colorful accent rug to brighten up a room. Push together two warp loops at the top of the hula hoop. Cut one shirt into one inch horizontal strips so that they are loops. For the weft cut at least 50 loops from the remaining shirts.

Stretch these loops in pairs around the hula hoop in a pinwheel pattern. Add and secure a second loop perpendicular to the first. Stretch one warp loop over the hula hoop. Cut off the hemmed bottom of all shirts and discard.

If you make one tell me how it goes. This simple t shirt hula hoop rug is a great in front of the tv activity for teens and adults to upcycle those random t shirts. Here is the perfect craft project to recycle old t shirts make a woven rug using hula hoop as a loom. Click play above to view.