Diy Recycled Tshirt Rug

One method is to cut the t shirt into strips and tie them to a longer strip that has been made into a base cord.

Diy recycled tshirt rug.

Making a little something out of almost. I have a fun book called rags. Simply hot glue the strips in place directly on the top of the rug pad bunching the strips together on top of the glue. Rugs from recycled t shirts.

Continue to glue knotted t shirt sections all the way up the edge of the mat. I have a fun book called rags. Keep gluing t shirt sections in one straight line along an edge of the mat image 1. Rugs from recycled t shirts.

Stick the knots into the glue strip leaving 1 2 inch between each knot image 2. Refashion your old unwanted t shirts into new shag rugs for your floor by cutting them into pieces and using them as rug yarn. Continue in this manner until you have sewn t shirt strips on all of the lines you marked. The total time it took me to cut the t shirt strips was probably about 1 hour.

I ended up with 25 rows of t shirt strips. The cord is then coiled around to form a circle rug. This is what your rug should look like now. Making a little something out of almost nothing written by sisters linda and stella allison and published in 1979.

If you re making your own t shirt yarn cut off the top of the t shirt directly underneath the arms and cut off the hem. Place a strip of hot glue 1 inch from the previous row.