How To Make A Potholder Rug

All the horizontal loops are from black t shirts.

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. How to make a potholder rug. I used the loom kids make pot holders with and wove them together. I made a pot holder rug when my now 35 year old son was an infant.

Bring the pinned rug to your sewing machine. I recently had a chance to attend a workshop where we learned how to make pot holder style area rugs. It makes a very nice colorful nursery rug. Well you re in luck because here they come.

This rug is woven using the simple technique we once used to make potholders on little metal looms in kindergarten. Use a wide zig zag stitch to join all the inside edges of the potholders. Then we alternated blue and green tones for the vertical loops. Debbie october 5 2013 at 1 38 pm reply.

Did you scroll all this way to get facts about potholder rug loom. Pot holder area rugs. The most popular color. The concept is fairly simple involving only a bit of simple weaving and is an excellent craft for children as well.

Anyone can do it. Pick a contrasting thread to add dimension to your rug or go neutral it s up to you. The most common potholder rug loom material is cotton. Mi may 30 2013 at 6 25 am reply.

With a little bit of skill and a rag rug loom you can learn to weave simple crafts such as potholders. For the more modern rug on this page we used an all black warp.