I started my scrap rug today and it is really going rather fast. I am amazed at how easy it is. Thank you so much for the tutorial. Plan on a full size room rug if I can handle it. Thanks again and keep up the great job of showing us how to do things like this.

I see that Nancy's Notions sells cord for rugs/baskets.

Margie

These rugs are beautiful. I will have to try one!
Thanks,
Barb :lol:

Hi! I will be teaching my teens to make this rug. They will making gifts through the year and this will be one of them. Tank you soooo much!!!

Hi! I will be teaching my teens to make this rug. They will making gifts through the year and this will be one of them. Thank you soooo much!!!

Awesome tutorial wow, I will go and buy me some of that clothesline. Where did you buy yours at?

Karen

This is such a super idea, and great pix with your tute!! We "just happen" to be going to Wally's today, so I will be checking out the clothesline section. :) Thanks for sharing. I remember making a yarn rug for my doll with the wooden spool "French knitting", and as someone else mentioned here, it was difficult to keep it from bowling...so I will have to be careful to not let that happen. ;) I KNEW I was keeping all my selvage strips for some reason!!!!

Patti

Check Lowe's and Home Depot for cotton clothesline too...and if all else fails, Uhaul sells nylon rope of the same size...should work, it just won't be cotton!

Oh thanks so much for sharing this. You reminded me I even have the tool to make the fabric strips.....so many projects so little time...
dee

Great tutorial! Thank you for sharing!

I have been looking for a project like this to use up some older print fabrics that I am no longer fond of. They have nice colors/tones, I just don't care for the print anymore. Great way to use it up and not have to see the print.

I want to make larger rugs for the kitchen and bedroom.

Just have to remember to pick up the clotheline now.

Thanks again
DeeDee

you can order it online walmart.

Pacific Fabrics has it and it is 100 feet for $4.00 + tax

The tooth brush rugs are wonderfulllll and so fun to make and so are the clothes line rugs and the rushing rugs abd the wagon wheel rugs you could say I love making rugs and weaving then is fun ti onmy frame I bought

Ok I am going to attempt this rug project. The first home depot [las vegas nv] I went to didn't have the cotton rope, my HD here at home [ut.] did have it. My first thought was to get the longest package I could but then it hit me, I would have to hand sew the rope once its covered, as how would I get a lg circle of rope in my machine...or am I just not getting it?

the way that I understood it....you stitch it together from the inside out. you only pin where you add on new fabrics and the initial fabric covering the end at the start of the clothesline (center of the rug).

If I am wrong please correct my understanding.

DeeDee

I am sooooo glad to see this rug, have been working in sewing room and found a lot of "what was I thinking" fabric and now I know what to do with it. Thanks sooo much. Your rug is gorgeous.

Mary,
Thanks so much! You make it look very easy.
I do have a lot of scraps to use up.

Yes, we'll ALL have rugs in our houses now! :D

I am definitely going to try this. I love the braided rugs and have always wanted to try it. Can't wait to gt busy on one more project.

great tutorial! always wanted to try making one!

This is so cool! I was wanting to make a braid rag rug but I think I'll try this instead!

Thanks much!

I tried to search for it on their site, no luck. Have you been able to find it online there? If so, do you have a link?

It would be in their fabric department. If not I will find you a site.Okay?!!! :thumbup:
Dont give up!!!

anyone make one? love to see samples?

Does it matter how long the fabric strips are? i am assuming if i don't want the rug multi colors just cut the longest strips you can handle.
I bought the rope and hopefully will attempt this tomorrow.

How do we clean our rugs? I want to make one for my kitchen, but it will need to be durable and definitely cleanable...

If it is small enough and the stitches close enough together you can throw it in the washer like you would any rug.

I got mine at Ace hardware (it's not mainstays, though). It's all cotton and so far I have about half my rug done and the needle is going through it just fine.

Can you make this rug rectangular? Or does it default to circular???

You could make it oval. I suppose rather than go around you could go back and forth. I've never tried it. Would it stay flat at each end or would you end up with a kidney shape?

I'd love to make a couple for my kitchen but wondering how big I would be able to make it with an ordinary sewing machine. It wouldn't be able to be rolled like you would a quilt: at least, not as much. I'm still waiting for pictures to see what others have done..

The bulk of the rug always stay on the outside. I started mine and went ooops, so I had to "flip" it after the first couple of rows because had I continued, the bulk would have been on the inside. I'm not sure if I'm making sense.

But for better or worse this is my first one. (Can someone tell me if I used the right stitch?) This is my machine's "zig-zag". It doesn't look like the same one in the tutorial.

I had fun, though! :)

I've made more rugs than quilts. I use a clothespin instead of a straight pin, it acts as an extra hand. I roll up my extra fabric first so I don't have to stop and do this. It's faster and easier for me when switching fabrics or just using the same fabric for one rug.

They are machine washable, but don't put them in the dryer.

Love your rug!!! Great job :thumbup:

I love the colors!
It's great. :-D

To make it oval I would think if you start the center a longer fold that would make it more oval...still need to find the time to do this.

Go to nancy's notions or walgreens.

Graet tip!!!! :thumbup:

I just ordered some online from ebay. Our walgreens here didn't carry it, neither did Dollar Tree or Walmart. It was $9 incl shipping. That seemed high to me. Is this the cost I should expect?

Nancy's Notions good luck and I saw some at Walgreen.