Hula Hoop Rug

Repurpose them into a rug using a hula hoop as a loom.

Hula hoop rug.

Tie the ends around a warp spoke and tuck the ends into the rug. Summer may be over but don t put those hula hoops away just yet. You should have seven pairs of loops equal distance apart. 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.

I made these rugs as a part of my silver award project for girl scouts. How to make a rag rug. Tie the ends in pairs then trim them to make a fringe or tuck them back into the rug. 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.

Anne of crafts blog flax twine made a great hula hoop rug inspired by a recycled tee hula hoop project she spotted at the disney family fun site see pic below. 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. Via one pretty thing. 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.

Make a cardboard loom or hula hoop loom. Anne wrote a splendid d i y tutorial on how to make a hula hoop rug of your own check it out. Cut off the hemmed bottom of all shirts and discard. If you make one tell me how it goes.

A hula hoop ring some old yarn or old tees some finger knitting action is all you need to make a rug. Cut the warp spokes off the hoop one at a time. You will need 14 strips. When the rug is the size you want but no closer than 8 inches from the edge of the hula hoop snip open your weft loop.

Stretch these loops in pairs around the hula hoop in a pinwheel pattern. Hula hoop t shirt rug instructions video. You will start by cutting your t shirts into strips and this creates your t shirt yarn and you weave from the center out. Cut one shirt into one inch horizontal strips so that they are loops.

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. Bring em on inside and weave a hula hoop rug with disney family fun.