How To Make A Round Rug

Aim to make your rug the width of the door or slightly greater.

How to make a round rug.

The rug will tend to bunch up as you go along. The key is to use strong twine to wrap around your pieces of scrap fabric. The cost of materials for a 5x8 rug totaled about 300. At the entryway of a home open the door fully and plan to place your rug about 6 inches beyond that.

There is a 38 inch diameter version made from one 2 1 2 inch strip roll and a 54 inch diameter version made from two rolls. For a round or oval rug coil the end of the braid so it looks like a snail shell pin that together and sew it to keep it all in place and then just keep coiling and pinning and then use that. Non slip rubber mats for rugs come in rolls so you will need to cut yours down to the right size. You can usually find them alongside the other rug making supplies in an art store or in the home improvement section of a store step 2 cut the mat down to the desired size.

Then pull the pieces upward and tie them together with a rubber band again as shown in the photo. You can use the ladder stitch for that. It is a rubber mesh like mat that people place under rugs to keep them from slipping. Start coiling the braid together tightly.

You can place some heavy objects on it to hold it down while you braid if you need to. As you do stitch the sides that are touching together. Make your way over to my poppet to find out exactly how to make one of these gorgeous rugs. You can even cut it into a shape such as a.

Step 1 get a non slip rubber rug mat. Next weave the cut cotton pieces in between the netting grid as shown in the photo. Coil crochet rug this stunning rug is made with lots and lots of scrap fabric crocheted into a large round rug. Don t worry if the stitches show as this will be the bottom of the rug.

Once secured with a rubber band fluff out the piping pieces so they have more of a fuzzy pom pom shape.