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A knitted rug can perfectly complement your interior

Disused knitwear can still serve its owners, receiving a second life in the form of an unusual household item. Unnecessary T-shirts, T-shirts and knitted jumpers accumulated in closets and on mezzanines encourage people to create all sorts of ways to use old things to decorate the interior.

It’s not at all difficult to make a rug from old T-shirts with your own hands. The time spent will be repaid with pleasant emotions from the creative process.

There are different techniques for creating rugs from old T-shirts. More complicated ones for experienced craftswomen and simpler ones for those new to design.

Types of woven rugs

All the variety of methods can be divided into several main types:

• knitting;
• weaving;
• from braids;
• grid-based;
• on a fabric basis.

Crochet

Knitting without a hook

Materials and tools

To make a rug from old T-shirts, you will need simple tools:

• scissors;
• knitting needles or crochet hook;
• thread and needle;
• cardboard for weaving;
• fabric glue or glue gun if using a fabric base.

“Yarn” for knitting and weaving rugs is prepared by cutting ribbons 1.5-2.5 cm wide from old T-shirts, T-shirts, tights, and sweatshirts. Knitwear is cut in a circle and in a spiral. The strips are sewn together and twisted into balls to make it easier to work. The strips can be connected in another way. Each strip is cut at a distance of 1.5 cm from the edge. Place on top of each other, aligning the slots. The opposite end of the top strip is passed through the holes from below. To make rugs from T-shirts based on a mesh, rectangles measuring 2 * 12 cm are cut, this is not at all difficult to do with your own hands using a cardboard template.

Preparing threads for weaving

Knitted products

The “knitting” technique is suitable for craftswomen who work with crochet or knitting needles. The rug is knitted in a circle until the right size according to the usual circular patterns. For knitting, they do not use any complex patterns; they knit the fabric with facial loops. Even a novice craftsman can make a rug from braids.

Braid rugs

The work is performed in the following order.

1. Place 3 ribbons of contrasting colors together and braid them.
2. The ends of the blanks are stitched.
3. The braids are connected to each other manually or using a sewing machine.
4. Twist the braid into a spiral, securing it with threads. The seams should be on one side, this will be the bottom of the product.

Rug with a braid secured with threads

Another way to use braids is this.

1. Prepare the base for the carpet from thick fabric.
2. Take strips of fabric slightly larger than the width of the base and braid them without braiding them to the end.
3. Apply fabric glue to the base and glue the pigtails. All blanks are fastened together with a needle and thread.

Braid rug with glue base

Basketry

Work algorithm:

• For the “weaving” technique, take a round base or a rectangle.
• To weave a round rug, draw a circle of the desired diameter on cardboard. Divide the circle into 36 equal segments. Cut with an allowance of 3 cm from the edge.
• Slots are made along each ray from the edge to the border of the circle to fix the threads. They begin to braid the base clockwise or counterclockwise, passing the knitted strip alternately first above the thread, then under the thread. When the weaving is finished, the tip of the ribbon is secured with a needle and thread.
• The rug can be decorated with pompoms or tassels made from knitwear cut into strips.

Advice! If the rectangular shape of the future product is chosen, prepare a frame of the required size.

• On the top and bottom slats of the frame, nails are placed at a distance of 2.5-3 cm from each other. Stretch the base using threads of a neutral color.
• The fabric ribbons are passed first over the warp thread, then under it. After weaving is completed, the knots are hidden on the underside and the rug is removed from the frame.

Mesh based products

Work algorithm:

• The base of the mat is a painting or plaster mesh. Cut a piece of mesh to the size of the future carpet.
• They step back 1 cm from the edge and begin to fasten shreds of fabric measuring 2*12 cm into the cells. The shreds are brought in from the bottom of the mesh, pulling them up using a hook. Tie a knot and proceed to the next workpiece. Work begins from the center of the carpet.

Advice! If there is no construction grid, the foundation ForYou can knit the carpet yourself.

• The fillet mesh is crocheted from polypropylene twine of appropriate thickness. First, knit a chain of chain stitches, then alternate double crochets and chain stitches.
• Based on the mesh, you can make a bargello style rug. The pattern turns out to be unusual and very beautiful. A characteristic feature of the embroidery is a vertical stitch that captures four vertical warp threads. The next stitch is offset by one base thread.

Mat on loin mesh

Fabric-based products

To make a rug, circles with a diameter of 12 cm are cut from old knitted items. A seam is laid along the edges of the workpiece “forward with a needle”, filled with padding polyester and the thread is pulled together.

For filling you can use old blankets made of padding polyester, holofiber from matted pillows, and foam rubber scraps.

The balls are manually sewn to the base. You can use a glue gun to attach the balls.

Volume mat

Caring for rugs

A rug made from T-shirts will serve you for a long time and will be pleasing to the eye. For care, choose hand wash or delicate machine wash. Dry flat in a ventilated area.

Making rugs from T-shirts with your own hands solves two problems at once. Clearing closets of junk and getting things that will be useful around the house. Transforming old unnecessary things into a useful and beautiful piece of furniture is a real miracle. Rugs made from old T-shirts are akin to painting masterpieces. Even when using the same techniques, the craftswoman ends up with her own version of the rug.

Now, I don’t have enough patience and skill for the super, artistic value things that many, many country-mama craftswomen do. And the desire to do something cannot be shoved anywhere. Well, and... - I’m sharing.

I had in stock several of my husband’s seamless (without side seams, so-called seamless) T-shirts that were ready to be thrown away, and one of my own that was completely lying around. Made from good, thin knitwear. And I began to think, can’t I find some use for them? I immediately remembered my grandmother’s woven rugs, still from the countryside. From torn strips from worn bed linen, shirts, and other clothes. She called them “palaces”... But somehow you can’t really get involved with looms, in modern times.

And they found it on the Internet for me detailed instructions how to make yarn from T-shirts. Here's an example:

The trouble is that some points in all these master classes remained completely unclear to me. For example, I still can’t (oh, bitter grief!) understand how, by following the instructions given in the link provided, cutting off the side seams and ultimately getting TWO small rectangles of knitted fabric, you can achieve a very long and continuous “thread”.

Therefore, having already cut up a dozen T-shirts after personally inventing the bicycle, I offer my own master class. In case it suits someone.

1. Take a clean and unwrinkled T-shirt and cut off the top along the line drawn between the lower points of the armholes (i.e., under the sleeves).

2. We get rid of the double layer of fabric in the hem: either cut off this part altogether - right above the seam line, or rip out the overlock seam (for me this took a couple of minutes longer than cutting the hem, but saved an additional meter and a half or two of “yarn” for work). As a result, we get a knitted “pipe”, ready for manipulation with scissors, without seams.

3. Carefully fold our “pipe” (= two layers of fabric) onto a plane. We make sure that the canvas is evenly distributed - the cut edges should more or less match and will be located on the sides during further manipulations.

4. Take the bottom quarter (with the fold line) and turn it up:

Then we repeat the manipulation again

In front of us is a “pipe” folded into six layers of fabric in this way:

That is, the edge of the fabric farthest from us, 3-4 centimeters wide, turns out to be two-layer, and in front of us is a neatly folded flat “roller” of six layers of fabric, which we will now cut.

5. We mark the cutting lines - the width of the strips depends on personal preferences and the general design of the product. Personally, I cut thin T-shirts (undershirts, shirts) into strips 4.5 cm wide, and thicker ones (overshirts, sports ones) into strips 3.5-4 cm wide.

6. We cut parallel to the edge, leaving the “thin” edge farthest from us uncut.

7. Here's what it all looks like when all the strips are cut:

8. Shake our fringe, straighten the remaining intact “connective” tissue and, ensuring CONTINUITY of the fabric strips, make the following clear cuts, as if diagonally - from the end point of the first cut - to the beginning point of the second, from the end of the second - to the beginning of the third, from the third - in the fourth, and so on until the very end. I hope the pictures make it clearer how exactly these cuts go:

9. We return to the first strip, which still remains a “ring”, and cut it, ensuring the continuity of the “yarn”.

10. We stretch the resulting tape in our hands (this helps to form a neat, rounded thick “thread” + bonus! - an excellent exercise for strengthening the chest muscles) and roll it into a ball.

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