How to make rug from old t-shirts

The budget and the original pad at home you can do with your hands. Your author does not require expensive materials, everything necessary for creativity can be found in the attic or in the closet. You disposing the old stuff, and the resulting product will delight you and arouse the interest of friends.

How to make rug from old t-shirts
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Knitted basket for small items from old t-shirts

Bushy Mat of knitted things

To produce this Mat, you can use plain old t-shirts and t-shirts. Remove all wraps and tags. Cut the linen into long strips with a width of about 3 cm, Pull each strip for the two opposite ends to the fabric curled into a tube. This can be done in another way. Put the strips in the washing machine and quick wash, so they will curl into a tube. Then turn the tubes into lengths of approximately 10 cm.

From a piece of thick cloth make a rectangle of this size, what you want to see your Mat. Treat the edges, tucked and prostracii them on a typewriter. If the fabric is stiff and difficult to bend decorate the edges in the matching colour braid.

Arrange in one row of fabric strips. Start laying so that the center of the knitted tubes was close to the edge of the Mat. Prostrochite on the machine all the strips through the center. Bend them to close to parallel to lay out the next row of tubes. The more closely you place the rows of strips, the more fluffy get your product. Therefore stitch the whole rug.

Using material of different colors, you can even create a simple pattern on the rug.

Fluffy rug on the grid

Fluffy rug decorate the bathroom or be a welcome addition to your nursery or bedroom. Its size can be done arbitrarily as you have enough tissue. Cut shirts into strips 10-12 cm long and a width of about 2 cm For the base you'll need a construction grid under plaster with large cells. Make it a shape for your Mat.

With the help of the hook pull the strip of cloth in the cell so that both the edges were on one side. It will be for the front of the Mat. Tie the protruding ends on the node. Thus make the whole rug. Try to pass through the fabric as often as possible to keep your rug turned out fluffy.

Mat knitted braids

T-shirt cut into long ribbons with a width of about 2-3 cm, Take three strips and stitch them together in the beginning. You can use ribbon of the same color or combine different. Weave of them pigtail. When the fabric will come to an end, hemming new strips. The length of the braid depends on the size of your Mat.

Beautiful and will look unusual rugs made in this way, if you use Terry cloth from robes or towels.

Turn the braid into a circle or oval. Bind a row with others with a needle and thread. When the Mat is fully laid, prostrochite to type all braids or a sew carefully again manually.

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