[Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs

[Susan Roe]

Hi Terry P.

To close the tube sides as you are coiling, just take a yarn/tapistry needle 
and the same yarn you are using and do something like a whip stitch to 
close/join.  Something like this:

With needle, pick up a bar/stitch from one of the tube edges and then 
another from the opposite side and gently draw closed.  Then from your 
already coild section, pick up any stitch along the edge and then draw the 
three pick up points tighter together.  Start the same process about 1/2 
inch further along the open sided tube.  Just keep this going until you are 
done and then close off the open tube end.

Susan R.
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <Terry.Powers at nih.gov>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs


>I understand how you stitch to make the tube, but how do you stitch the 
>tubing together when wrapping to make the rug.
> Next year, do you mind making a small sample, like 2 wraps around, please. 
> Sounds neet for a bathroom rug or a rug to put in frunt of a couch or fire 
> place.
> Sounds neet.  How about thick cotton for better washing?
>
> Terry P.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Roe [mailto:dogwoodfarm at verizon.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 9:49 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs
>
> Hi eileen,
>
> Not exactly, but close.  You cast on about 6 or 7 stitches and then do 
> stockennette, knit one side and then perl the next.  The piece will 
> naturally curl into itself and then you just runn a quick whip stitch to 
> close and then join as you coil, or whip stitch as you are joining to 
> coil.
> This makes a nice squashy rug under your feet and you can use verigated 
> yarn, scrap yarn, alternate yarns of similar shades or just use a solid 
> color.  I have also done them for dog beds as well.
>
> The tube it forms is larger than the ilet cords, but the same idea.
>
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
> ----- 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 3:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs
>
>
>> 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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