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How To Make A Rag Rug Tutorial

How To Make A Rag Rug Tutorial
Happy Labor Day! For a fun change of pace today, I have the cute girls from Everyday Art here to show us How to Make a Rag Rug tutorial. I love their super easy technique! This is definitely a great craft for fabric scraps. Hi, my name is Jaime and my sister-in-law Emily and I are craftaholics. :) We like to share our creations on our blog, Everyday Art because we think that everyone likes to create a little art everyday. We’re excited to be here at Craftaholics Anonymous® today sharing one of our recent projects. Introducing, the Pink-and-Blue Rag Rug: And I must say, phew! We recently moved and I put my two oldest girls in a shared bedroom. As you can see, it turned out cute, coordinating, and much loved by the two girls. The rug really was simple to make, just time-consuming. You can see the rug mat in this image and about how often I skipped holes. The rug has been in the girls’ room for about 2 weeks now and it easily fluffs up with a little shake and appears to be holding up well. Hi! Related:  ✂ POMPOM

Many Rug Making Tutorials Description: To make the wood themed rug, take a plain green rug, made a couple of fabric mushrooms and hot glue them in place. Absolutely brilliant! Couldn’t you also try something like this with 3D flowers? Craft Link: Woodland Inspired Rug Tutorial Read More: Rug Making or Home These rug­mak­ing links were first post­ed in 2008. I love the i­dea of mak­ing my own rugs. My favorite technique? Something easy. I love crocheted rugs. I haven’t collected a lot of information on braided rugs from the internet because I own books on the subject. All the rugs in this section are created from remnants, samples, doormats or inexpensive sisal. The fact that I am not much of a painter does not stop me from dreaming. I love to sew and I always have tons of remnants that I am desperate to find a purpose for. Hooked rugs are my sisters current favorite needlecraft. Read More : Rug Making or Home Description : The Free Striped Rug Pattern allows you the opportunity to use up some of your scrap yarns.

Cake postcard tutorial Supplies Materials needed to make two cake postcards: 1 large sponge (yellow paints the best)Serrated knifeX-Acto or utility knifeSpray paint (brown, yellow, pink or white)1 tube acrylic latex caulk (brown, cream or white)Spray adhesive (3M Super 77 works great!)Cardboard, kraft paper or scrapbook paper Instructions Cut sponge into wedge shape With a serrated knife, using a sawing motion, cut a sponge into two, cake wedge shapes. Cut a center groove into sponge Using an X-Acto or utility knife, cut a section of foam from the center of the sponge. Paint the sponge wedges in desired color. Trace the slice of cake When the sponge wedges are dry, trace around them on a piece of cardboard, kraft paper or colorful scrapbook paper. Spray glue the postcards to the solid, flat sides of the sponge wedges. Using a caulking gun and your desired caulk, fill a plastic disposable piping bag with half of the caulk. Pipe the center of the cake Pipe the icing on the top Note from the editor This totally works!

T-Shirt Shag Rug Here it is, finally! My shag rug is complete. I love how it feels under my feet, and if it starts to look a little flat, I pick it up, shake it, and it fluffs right back up! It took some time but I finished it and I’m glad I decided to make one. Feel free to message me with any questions. How to Make a T-shirt Shag Rug Supplies: 1 XL t-shirt, cloth scissors, and lots of small t-shirt scraps the base with a few scraps threaded through 1. For the base of the rug, lay the X-L t-shirt flat and cut a large rectangle out of the shirt, as large as you would like the size of your rug to be. a rotary board makes cutting easier perfect sized scraps! 2. If you are me, you have scraps of t-shirts all over your apartment. Cut these t-shirts into strips that are approximately 5-6’’ long and 1-1 ½’’ wide. holes before and after scraps are threaded through 3. Starting 1’’ from the edge of the base, carefully poke or snip horizontal and vertical rows of small holes about 1/2 ’’ to 2/3’’ inches apart. 4. 5.

Quatrefoil Design Floor Cloth Pantone – the foremost authority on color has proclaimed Honeysuckle pink as its “2011 Color of the Year”. Pink is hot right now, we are seeing a whole rich spectrum of it – everywhere and more than just one hue. Look at the March issue of House Beautiful magazine and you will be enlightened to the power of pink when it comes to decorating our homes this year. Seeing pink on the cover of decorating magazines as well as merchandise in stores like Target and Wal-Mart reminds me of a line from the movie Funny Face with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. Well, we don’t want to go that far – although marketers would love it if we did. To keep your decor fresh without going crazy trying to keep on top of things – add only a few touches of it instead of going full board with a current trend. I have always wanted a rug in my kitchen to stand on when I am at the sink. Supplies Needed: Variation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

FREE Cash Envelope System Template | Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs If you're new to Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed for updates in your favorite feed reader or by Email. Don't forget to subscribe to my newsletter so you don't miss out on any great discounts on my templates! You can also follow me on Twitter and "Like" me on my Facebook Fan Page! Thanks for visiting! Update: I opened up an Etsy shop!! As I’ve mentioned before, we went to the cash system endorsed by Dave Ramsey not too long ago. The idea behind using cash is that it hurts to hand over that $20 bill. I can’t even begin to tell you what this has done for us. So, today’s FREE template is in honor of the cash system. I decided that it was high time I had prettier envelopes. Before I get started, let me direct you to some pretty good tutorials (if I do say so myself!) Where to Start – offers suggestions for basic materials to get you started with hybrid, if you are interested in using digital papers with your template. Now, print your project! So pretty!

Recycled Sewn Denim Scatter Rug Here's a denim rug recycled from a variety of thinner denim fabrics, such as those used for shirts or skirts. Joyce, the designer, drew inspiration from her Grandma B's hand-made scatter rugs, usually made with non-fraying double-knits. Although the denim version does fray, especially after washing, the homespun look that results has an appeal all its own. Joyce's denim rug is shown, above left, after completion, and at right, after washing and drying. If you'd like to make your own, you'll need lots of denim to cut up into small rectangles, plus a larger section of thicker denim (pieced together to get the size you need, if necessary), as the backing. Denim Rug Instructions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Suggestions: Grandma B's original double-knit scatter rugs were non-fraying and virtually indestructible, so if you have unwearables made from double-knit, velour, or other non-fraying fabrics, consider recycling them into a bright rug of your own. About the Designer: Print this Page

5 Unique DIY Area Rug Ideas If you can't find the perfect rug to fit your space, unleash your creativity and make a custom one to fit your space, life and budget perfectly. No need to settle for something that isn't right. As you can see here, the homeowners who created these set no limitations to the materials that can be used to make their rugs fun, functional, and unique to their style and personality. Plywood makes a great area rug for a home office that has wall to wall carpeting. This rug started out as a display, but the designer had so many requests for how to make it that they wrote the directions for anyone to do. I am sure you have seen foam mats in tire stores or that are made for kid's rooms that piece together like a jigsaw puzzle so you can create the size you need. This may take some time to make, but this is one very unique rug that would look perfect in a home library or office. If these rugs are too shabby-chic for your digs, check out the Momtastic guide To Make A Quatrefoil Design Area Rug

DIY Picture Tiles - You Will Never Buy a Photo Frame Again Lately I’ve been having this huge urge to decorate the house. This is big news. I do not decorate. Arguably, one of the reasons why is because I. absolutely. hate. to. buy. mass. produced. decor. Anyway, this extends to photo frames. Nope. Long story short, I discovered this method of transferring my photos cheaply, quickly, and beautifully to something uncommon and unique. Tiles. The only thing that’s not particularly crunchy about this is that it uses Modge Podge or similar (and I’m not sure what’s in Modge Podge). It’s just grainy and doesn’t dry clearly. Boo. BUT, if you can overlook that one minor issue, I think you’ll love this. And it will be glorious. Here’s how you do it. First, you need to go to Home Depot, Lowes, or something like it. (FYI, I found that Lowes prices on tiles were cheaper than Home Depot. I like the stone tiles, because they have texture. So you pick out your tiles in the sizes you want. And then you get home and gather what you need. Cut them out. Go go go! Love me?

Bedside Pom Pom Rug I’m putting the finishing touches on the joint kids room now and am excited to show it to you soon! It’s been a real challenge to bring together elements for both a 6 yr old boy and 9 month old girl. A fun one though. I’m sharing one project for the room today: a DIY pom pom rug. I wanted to make something soft to stand on and soothe Edie in her crib when she got up in the middle of the night and thought a DIY pom pom rug would be the perfect addition. vv

Making Rugs With Old Toothbrushes Story and photographs by Gina Jennings, Color photograph by Mary Schmalstig, Illustrations by Lisa Mestan Did you ever hear of anyone making a rug with a toothbrush? Maymee Campbell made some. So did several other women she knows about who learned how many years ago. The oval-shaped rug resembles both a braided rug and a crocheted rug. The needle is made by cutting the bristle end off of an old toothbrush and filing this end 'into a point. Maymee Campbell has had her rugs for fifteen years and they still look great. The toothbrush rug is not difficult to make. The materials needed to make the toothbrush needle are: an old toothbrush, a pocketknife, some fine sandpaper and different sizes of rattail files. With a pocketknife cut the whole bristle end off of any old toothbrush which has a hole in the handle. Elongate the hole at the opposite end of the needle by whittling and then inserting a small rattail file to smooth the edges. Ill. 1--Materials to make the needle. Local History Home

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