The oversize looms and easy to use loops of t shirt fabric make these projects particularly appealing to beginning weavers.
T shirt rug using hula hoop.
I started small as a test so i ended up using both types of looms you can skip the cardboard and just use the hula hoop for bigger rugs.
Scissors about a dozen t shirts 33 inch hula hoop.
Below are all the directions you will need to create this colorful rug for your home or classroom too.
Stretch these loops in pairs around the hula hoop in a pinwheel pattern.
We have included a video above that shows you just how easy this project is.
Supplies needed to make a t shirt rag rug.
Use t shirt yarn.
Hula hoop t shirt rug instructions video.
Make a cardboard loom or hula hoop loom.
You will start by cutting your t shirts into strips and this creates your t shirt yarn and you weave from the center out.
Here is the perfect craft project to recycle old t shirts make a woven rug using hula hoop as a loom.
The rug was made on a hula hoop loom using an old t shirt for the warp and a massively huge ball of finger knitting for the weft.
Of course you can also use t shirt yarn as i did.
Cut one shirt into one inch horizontal strips so that they are loops.
Easy hula hoop t shirt rug this year i am moving to a new school and i don t have any rugs in my classroom.
I based this project on an incredible t shirt hula hoop rug i saw on the disney family fun site where they used strips of t shirts for the weft.
You will need 14 strips.
Here is the perfect craft to recycle t shirts make a woven rug using a hula hoop as a loom.
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.
This project is super fun and easy to do.
How to make a rag rug.
It would be super fun to learn the basic hoop weaving technique by crafting a colorful accent rug to brighten up a room.
Cut off the hemmed bottom of all shirts and discard.
I made this super easy t shirt rug this afternoon.