T-shirt Rug

What does one do with the backs of the t-shirts that go into your t-shirt quilt? I went with rags and finally rag rug.

Verdict: total win. Even my first error-riddled rug is cozy, kind of cute, and feels great between me and the kitchen floor. The stretchiness that came from using women’s t-shirt fabric is fun, but if I had to criticize I’d say it’s very slippy on linoleum tile. This is a rug you can surf around your kitchen on.

Instructions for making the rugs can be found at other blogs, so let’s talk about the loom. The easiest possible loom is a repurposed hoola hoop, but I have no kids (so no convenient hoop) and also wanted a square rug. Suggestions for square looms seemed a little excessive and specific. I didn’t want semi-permanent nail-filled planks hanging around, so I made a temporary loom out of pegboard and two-inch pegs.

This was a bit of a pain – those pegs do not all stay snugly in their holes – but worked out well in the end. The only problem was 100 pegs was nowhere near enough to make a large enough rug. At first I was hopeful but when I removed the rug from the loom I lost a good two inches or more off each dimension. My kitchen rug is comically small now. I ordered 100 more pegs and will give it another go as the quilt progresses.