How To Make A Hula Hoop T Shirt Rug

Repeat filling in the spaces until all 11 loops are in place.

How to make a hula hoop t shirt rug.

Supplies needed to make a t shirt rag rug. How to make a rag rug. Hula hoop t shirt rug instructions video. It s a very good tutorial that you will find easy to follow along with.

Of course you can also use t shirt yarn as i did. Click play above to view. I made these rugs as a part of my silver award project for girl scouts. 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.

Use t shirt yarn. For the weft cut at least 50 loops from the remaining shirts. If you make one tell me how it goes. 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.

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. 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. You will start by cutting your t shirts into strips and this creates your t shirt yarn and you weave from the center out.

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. Here is the perfect craft project to recycle old t shirts make a woven rug using hula hoop as a loom. Cut off the hemmed bottom of all shirts and discard. Stretch one warp loop over the hula hoop.

We have included a video above that shows you just how easy this project is. It would be super fun to learn the basic hoop weaving technique by crafting a colorful accent rug to brighten up a room. Stretch these loops in pairs around the hula hoop in a pinwheel pattern. You will need 14 strips.