Hula Hoop T Shirt Rug

If you make one tell me how it goes.

Hula hoop t shirt rug.

It s a very good tutorial that you will find easy to follow along with. But i loved the test so much that i transferred it to a bigger 30 diameter hula hoop. How to make a rag rug. I made these rugs as a part of my silver award project for girl scouts.

You will see more details about both methods. Cut off the hemmed bottom of all shirts and discard. This finger knitting hula hoop rug is super fun and easy to do. Then cut the last loop and tie onto the closest spoke and tuck the ends into the rug.

You will need 10 to 12 t shirts total. You will start by cutting your t shirts into strips and this creates your t shirt yarn and you weave from the center out. Of course you can also use t shirt yarn as i did. To weave a 30 diameter rug we need about 6 7 x large women s t shirts.

I started with cardboard because as a total newbie i was just going to do a quick test first. The oversize looms and easy to use loops of t shirt fabric make these projects particularly appealing to beginning weavers. Hula hoop or cardboard. Last you will cut each spoke off the hula hoop and double knot it.

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. Stretch the t shirt strips in pairs around the hula hoop as shown. Hula hoop t shirt rug instructions video we have included a video above that shows you just how easy this project is. This project is super fun and easy to do.

These strips are known as the weft strips. Continue weaving and adding strips of fabric until your rug is about 4 inches from the hula hoop. 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. Cut the rest of the t shirts into 1 inch horizontal strips.

How to diy hula hoop woven rug from old t shirts here is the perfect craft project to recycle old t shirts make a woven rug using hula hoop as a loom. Cut one shirt into one inch horizontal strips so that they are loops. You will need 14 strips.