Jean rugs diy how to make

It's a change in seasons and as you clean out your closet and your drawers of old clothes to make room for new ones, maybe you can also upcycle? I am all about donating gently used clothing, but what if your's has seen better days? Instead of adding them to the landfill, you can create your own braided rug. Check out the video below: Try to Use Similar Weighted Fabrics... I have done this many times, and my all time favorite is to use old denim jeans. But if you want a lighter rug, you can…

This Rug Making 101 video will show you how to weave a rug using old jeans! The jeans rug is adorable! The weaving rug tutorial shows you everything you ne...

Denim Rag Rugs are hard-wearing and fun to make. Use these 10 step-by-step denim rag rug tutorials to make a stylish rug for your home!

Indigo Jeans Shag Rug: I wanted to recycle some indigo-died jeans into a shag rug to fit the blue-and-white theme in my bedroom. Being the lazy person that I am, I used the simplest method for making my shag rug--namely, pulling strips of fabric through a mesh. No hooking…

A few folks have been asking about how I made my recycled jeans rug. Blog posts here and here show more peeks at the project. I'm not sure I can offer a full tutorial, but I can give you the basics and some helpful tips. If you need to learn some basic sewing skills before trying this project, there are all sorts of great resources...books at your local library, videos available online or you may have friends and/or neighbors who might help. An aunt, mom or dad or grandmother may be…

Denim Rag Rug Crochet Pattern. Crafters learn how to crochet a rug from upcycled denim #Upcycling #Crochet_With_Denim #Jean_Rug #Denim_Rag_Rug

My grandmothers used to make braided rugs with rags. Yours might have done them also. Since very little was wasted in those days, they would use remnants or old sheets or clothing to make them. The braided rugs were durable, colourful and long lasting. I started one of my own a while ago. I seem to work on it mostly in the winter and leave it when the weather warms up. It's not done yet but probably will be next winter. I am doing my rug with old jeans and other denim clothing such as skirts…