I was wondering
#12
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The best fabric to hook with is cut up old tee shirts. Each strip when pulled out becomes a cord and the edges are inside and can be cut to length. I also just priced at joanns rug hooking fabric. it was also rubberized. 54" wide about $25 a yard. Better than tees are the jersey sheets....big long strips.....arms get tired tearing them so they'd be on grain.
#13
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I used strips of fabric for locker hooking which was the "rage" around here a few years back. I only did a pot holder and bought the mesh by the yard from Joaan's, too much work for me, never did anything else with it.
#14
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If you use cotton strips you have to fold the edges in to the middle then fold in half. Put 3 longggggggggggggg pieces together and braid. Don't make the pieces to long,just enough for you to handle . Put a safety pin in the braid to hold in place and add more lengths. When you are done sew the braid together like a snail. It takes an awful fot to make a rug. Try a mat for a chair or to use under a plant to see how you like the craft. It is a good take along project really easy just time consuming.I have a coupls of these that must be over 50 years old or more from my husbands grandmother.
#15
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connecticut quilter: I have made cotton matieral rugs, placemats, chair pads. I cut my strips to the width of how thick i want my strips when I crochet the matieral. 11/2 for narrow strips to 2" med 2 1/2 . You can make round, square and oval. They look like you have braided them but its crochet. They are really pretty. I just made a two tone green for my upstair bathroom. Give it try I think you will really like them...
#17
I have the toothbrush tool I bought years ago and have never been able to figure out how to do it...I love the look but for some reason, brain wouldn't kick in LOL, show us a picture please of what you have done...thanks
#18
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I have a red, white and blue scrappy latch- hooked rug I been working on over several years. I bought the plastic grid, I think at Joann's, and cut it to the size I wanted. Got the cheapest red and blue and white fabric I could find all of them prints (like football, noveltry prints, etc. and cut them into strips approximately 1/2 inches wide by 5 inches long and using the latch hook attached them to the grid just the way you would with yarn. Takes alot of strips but it's a great winter project.
#19
The Shakers and Amish have several techniques for making rugs by sewing scraps, folds, strips to a background fabric--a great use for small pieces. I think some are called shubutzers, some petal rugs.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Angies...wall&filter=12 Has pictures of these half-way down.
I have seen pictures of the technique in Handworks and some other rug books which I don't recall. Google "mud rugs"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Angies...wall&filter=12 Has pictures of these half-way down.
I have seen pictures of the technique in Handworks and some other rug books which I don't recall. Google "mud rugs"
#20
I've read this tutorial, and it isn't hooking the fabric, but you get the same look...
http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2...g-rug-wip.html
http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2...g-rug-wip.html
If I posted this in the wrong area, please feel free to move it.
This is not a quilting question but it is about scraps.
You know how you hook a rug with yarn pieces, could you do it with fabric? Has anyone hooked a rug with fabric? What would be the pros and cons? Would the pieces come out in the wash fasted than the yarn pieces? I am working on a toothbrush rug, if thats what you want to call it, but I have small pieces that probably could be hooked and I was just wondering?
Thanks to everyone and their ideas!
This is not a quilting question but it is about scraps.
You know how you hook a rug with yarn pieces, could you do it with fabric? Has anyone hooked a rug with fabric? What would be the pros and cons? Would the pieces come out in the wash fasted than the yarn pieces? I am working on a toothbrush rug, if thats what you want to call it, but I have small pieces that probably could be hooked and I was just wondering?
Thanks to everyone and their ideas!
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