Below are all the directions you will need to create this colorful rug for your home or classroom too.
T shirt rug using 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.
Make a cardboard loom or hula hoop loom.
For the warp cut 1 inch wide loops from the bodies of one or two tees removing the hem and stopping at the sleeves.
Use t shirt yarn.
Easy hula hoop t shirt rug this year i am moving to a new school and i don t have any rugs in my classroom.
Cut one shirt into one inch horizontal strips so that they are loops.
This project is super fun and easy to do.
I made this super easy t shirt rug this afternoon.
It took me about 2 hours from start to finish.
Here is the perfect craft to recycle t shirts make a woven rug using a hula hoop as a loom.
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.
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.
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.
The oversize looms and easy to use loops of t shirt fabric make these projects particularly appealing to beginning weavers.
How to make a rag rug.
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.
Scissors about a dozen t shirts 33 inch hula hoop.
Here is the perfect craft project to recycle old t shirts make a woven rug using hula hoop as a loom.
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.
Hula hoop t shirt rug instructions video.
Of course you can also use t shirt yarn as i did.
You will need 14 strips.
You will start by cutting your t shirts into strips and this creates your t shirt yarn and you weave from the center out.