Make A Hula Hoop Rug

Stretch these loops in pairs around the hula hoop in a pinwheel pattern.

Make a hula hoop rug.

You should have seven pairs of loops equal distance apart. You will need about a dozen t shirts and a hula hoop to make a t shirt rag rug. Make a cardboard loom or hula hoop loom. The larger the hula hoop the larger your finished rug will be.

Via one pretty thing. Summer may be over but don t put those hula hoops away just yet. 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. Click play above to view.

A hula hoop ring some old yarn or old tees some finger knitting action is all you need to make a rug. Cut one shirt into one inch horizontal strips so that they are loops. R is for a diy rug. 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.

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. Such a fun hands on diy project. All you ll need is a hula hoop about a dozen old t shirts and an open afternoon to make your own unique upcycled rug. Cut off the hemmed bottom of all shirts and discard.

Anne of crafts blog flax twine made a great hula hoop rug inspired by a recycled tee hula hoop project she spotted at the disney family fun site see pic below. It s a very good tutorial that you will find easy to follow along with. 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. Repurpose them into a rug using a hula hoop as a loom.

Click through the link to see complete step by step instructions. Bring em on inside and weave a hula hoop rug with disney family fun. You will need 14 strips. How to make a rag rug.

We have included a video above that shows you just how easy this project is. 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. Anne wrote a splendid d i y tutorial on how to make a hula hoop rug of your own check it out. When i read through these directions i was surprised how easy it was to create.