[Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs

Mon Apr 5 13:31:03 UTC 2010

Does everyone know how to make strips for these types of rugs quick and fast?  I was shown this method when I took my toothbrush rug class and it made making strips of fabric so easy and simple.  What you do is you take your sheet/fabric and cut the beginning of your strips.  Say you were cutting 1" strips.  Go across the top of your fabric and make a cut every inch.  Cut down about 3" of the strip.  This works best with help from another person, but you can do it by yourself.  Each person grab ahold of every other top of the strips.  One person pulls one way, while the other person pulls the other way.  The strips will tear in straight strips fast and quick!  If you are doing it by yourself, do the same idea, but in your right hand get ahold of every other strip and do the same with the remaining and your left hand.  PULL...When two people are doing it, you can walk away from each other and it seems easier, plus you don't have to have as much strength as when you are doing it alone.

This method sure saves a lot of time cutting strips.  If I can clarify anything, let me know.

Cindy Z. 

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Carol Osmar
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 7:55 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs

Hi Carolyn annd Joyce,  The type of rag rugs I make are made from new 
fabric, not old rags.  I purchase the fabric from a place called Great 
Northern weaving.  They are here in michigan but also have a web site.  It 
is the end of the fabricc that is used for making things like sheets.  It is 
in a roll that very in with from an inch to a foot or more.  Three inches is 
about the widest strip you would want to use for crocheted rugs.  So if you 
buy the wider pieces you would have to cut it.  My husband has been working 
on a easier way to cut it but he hasn't made it yet.  On the site they say 
the with so you would be wise to choose the thinner strips.

The first place I saw it was at Dolliewood.  If you haven't heard of it, it 
is a theme park in Tennessee owned by Dollie Partin.  I am sure you could 
get this type of fabric remnents at other places too.

You would need a size Q crochet hook.  The rugs are made with single 
crochet.  The hardest part of making them is increasing evenly around the 
rounded ends of the oval so the rug lays flat.  At About.com you can find 
instructions crocheting anything in an oval.

I have just given you the basic idea here.  I would be happy to help you 
more if you are interested.  I think you should give it a try.

Carol
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carolyn Lapp" <lappland at bellsouth.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 1:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs

> hi carol,
> thank you so much for responding to my post. i have never made a rag rug 
> and would love to try crocheting one. i would need a list of necessary 
> supplies and easy to follow instructions. i have been crocheting simple 
> items since i was 12 years old and am always looking for new things to 
> make. i would appreciate any help you could give me. thanks again and take 
> care.
> carolyn
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carol Osmar" <osmarc at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 8:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs
>
>
>> Carolyn, I crochet rag rugs.  Is there something specific you want to 
>> know?
>> Carol- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Carolyn Lapp" <lappland at bellsouth.net>
>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
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>> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:14 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs
>>
>>
>>> does anyone know how to crochet a rag rug?
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "eileen scrivani" <etscrivani at verizon.net>
>>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
>>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 6:51 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs
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>>>
>>>> Hi Susan,
>>>>
>>>> When you talk about knitted coil rugs, are you making them out of 
>>>> i-cord? When I was a kid I used to make doll rugs out of the tubes that 
>>>> would come off of what was called horse reins or a knitting nancy.  Now 
>>>> a days its called i-cord.
>>>>
>>>> In fact the class on friday that will teach making a double knitted 
>>>> pouch will also teach how to make i-cord.
>>>>
>>>> Eileen
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Susan Roe" <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>
>>>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
>>>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:16 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I have done knitted coiled rugs that you could either leave as a single 
>>>>>tube and stitch in the coil, or you could take the tubes, braide them 
>>>>>together and then stitch them into the coil.  I'd be interested in a 
>>>>>rag rug class.
>>>>>
>>>>> Susan
>>>>> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>> From: "Marianne" <mdenning at cinci.rr.com>
>>>>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
>>>>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:07 PM
>>>>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> My sons have rented their first office space.  It is in an old 
>>>>>> warehouse and they ripped up all the flooring this weekend and found 
>>>>>> a distressed wood floor under everything else.  I would like to make 
>>>>>> a simple rag rug to put on the floor and understand that I need to 
>>>>>> braid long strips of fabric and then coil it to make the rug.  Has 
>>>>>> anyone made a rag rug before?  Would anyone be interested in teaching 
>>>>>> such a class and would others be intersted in learning to make rag 
>>>>>> rugs?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess this also goes along with the Friday question even though I 
>>>>>> had never thought of it before this weekend.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Marianne
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