Making A Hula Hoop Rug

A hula hoop ring some old yarn or old tees some finger knitting action is all you need to make a rug.

Making a hula hoop rug.

Bring em on inside and weave a hula hoop rug with disney family fun. Supplies needed to make a t shirt rag rug. How to make a rag rug. All you ll need is a hula hoop about a dozen old t shirts and an open afternoon to make your own unique upcycled rug.

Click play above to view. 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. Summer may be over but don t put those hula hoops away just yet. Hula hoop t shirt rug instructions video.

Cut one shirt into one inch horizontal strips so that they are loops. You will need about a dozen t shirts and a hula hoop to make a t shirt rag rug. Click through the link to see complete step by step instructions. You will start by cutting your t shirts into strips and this creates your t shirt yarn and you weave from the center out.

You will need 14 strips. Anne wrote a splendid d i y tutorial on how to make a hula hoop rug of your own check it out. We have included a video above that shows you just how easy this project is. 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.

It s a very good tutorial that you will find easy to follow along with. 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. Scissors about a dozen t shirts 33 inch hula hoop. 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.

Make a cardboard loom or hula hoop loom. 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. For the warp cut 1 inch wide loops from the bodies of one or two tees removing the hem and stopping at the sleeves. Cut off the hemmed bottom of all shirts and discard.

Here is the perfect craft to recycle t shirts make a woven rug using a hula hoop as a loom. Via one pretty thing. This project is super fun and easy to do. Repurpose them into a rug using a hula hoop as a loom.

The larger the hula hoop the larger your finished rug will be. Stretch these loops in pairs around the hula hoop in a pinwheel pattern.