T Shirt Rug Using Hula Hoop

Make a cardboard loom or hula hoop loom.
T shirt rug using hula hoop. You will start by cutting your t shirts into strips and this creates your t shirt yarn and you weave from the center out. Use t shirt yarn. It would be super fun to learn the basic hoop weaving technique by crafting a colorful accent rug to brighten up a room. 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.
How to make a rag rug. Below are all the directions you will need to create this colorful rug for your home or classroom too. Of course you can also use t shirt yarn as i did. Cut off the hemmed bottom of all shirts and discard.
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. For the warp cut 1 inch wide loops from the bodies of one or two tees removing the hem and stopping at the sleeves. 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. 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.
Cut one shirt into one inch horizontal strips so that they are loops. Here is the perfect craft project to recycle old t shirts make a woven rug using hula hoop as a loom. It took me about 2 hours from start to finish. 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.
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. Hula hoop t shirt rug instructions video. Here is the perfect craft to recycle t shirts make a woven rug using a hula hoop as a loom. Supplies needed to make a t shirt rag rug.
You will need 14 strips. Stretch these loops in pairs around the hula hoop in a pinwheel pattern. We have included a video above that shows you just how easy this project is. I made this super easy t shirt rug this afternoon.