Depuis quelques années je récupère les vieux jeans, les jupes en jeans, les grandes robes larges en jeans et je les empile sur une tablette du garde-robe. Je me disais que je finirais bien par faire quelque chose avec ça. L'hiver dernier, j'ai commencé...
Are you looking for ideas to recycle old jeans? We have selected some of the best ideas we have found so you can be inspired and make your own crafts by recycling old jeans.
¿Sabías que puedes utilizar tus viejos jeans para darle vida a otros objetos de casa? Pues hoy te queremos mostrar lo que puedes hacer con ellos.
Depuis quelques années je récupère les vieux jeans, les jupes en jeans, les grandes robes larges en jeans et je les empile sur une tablette du garde-robe. Je me disais que je finirais bien par faire quelque chose avec ça. L'hiver dernier, j'ai commencé...
Bricolage : fabriquez un tapis en jean tressé. Voila une idée Upcycling par excellence ! recyclez vos jean usés en lanières. Construisez un cadre de métier à tisser pour réaliser votre tapis avec ces lanières montées sur une chaîne.
There is more than one way to upcycle and repurpose your old denim into a blue jean rug. Here are 15 unique denim rug tutorials.
Making rugs in creative ways for home decoration. Find easy tutorials for crochet, tapestry, stenciled, fabric, quilted and kids rugs.
Depuis quelques années je récupère les vieux jeans, les jupes en jeans, les grandes robes larges en jeans et je les empile sur une tablette du garde-robe. Je me disais que je finirais bien par faire quelque chose avec ça. L'hiver dernier, j'ai commencé...
I have finished it as far as I am going to for now it measures 3 1/2 feet by 8 1/2 feet. I will add more when I have more jeans. blogged Part 6: here
J'ai monté un simple métier à tisser avec un carton et des punaises ... Ensuite, on tisse des lanières de tissus dessus-dessous. Ici des chutes de jeans!
Well, I have braided every scrap of denim in the house, all that we had worn out, that is. This gives you an idea of the size of the rug and the look of it. If you look you can see a yellow size small womans glove in the top left of the photo for a size reference.I did all this last bit of braiding in the last two days. I hope to get the rug all stitched today and call it good. This is one of the fastest rugs I have made and trust me, my hands feel the burn from doing so much work with a fiber that doesn't want to play nice. It is a little hard on the hands to braid, but the real hard part is stitching the braids together. Last night when I went to bed my hands had swollen some. They are ok right now and ready for more punishment. I have truly done a whiplash to my hands on this one. Part 1 here Part 2 here Part 3 here Part 4 here Part 5 this is it Part 6: here the end whipup
There is more than one way to upcycle and repurpose your old denim into a blue jean rug. Here are 15 unique denim rug tutorials.
Des tutos pour réaliser un tapis de chiffon. Parce qu'on a toutes quantité de tissus à recycler. Faciles à fabriquer, avec ou sans outil...
Learn how to make a braided doormat using rope and a nautical weave technique.
Upcycle Style: Braided T-shirt Rug
14 tutos de petits tapis en coton à faire soi-même. Et 5 méthodes à tester, sans couture, en tissant, crochetant, nouant, tressant. Une idée sympa de recyclage créatif !
I’ve been working on this one for a while. And boy, am I glad to have this one crossed off my list! Where to start? I saw a braided wool rug on Pinterest (where else?) and thought that it wou…
Taking old objects and turning them into something new is very exciting to me. So when I came across rag rugs I was inspired. I bought these sheets from value village. I try to find queen or king s…
These Unique and Awesome DIY Upcycle Jean Projects are going to totally inspire you to create something fabulous! So many choices!
My grandmothers used to make braided rugs with rags. Yours might have done them also. Since very little was wasted in those days, they would use remnants or old sheets or clothing to make them. The braided rugs were durable, colourful and long lasting. I started one of my own a while ago. I seem to work on it mostly in the winter and leave it when the weather warms up. It's not done yet but probably will be next winter. I am doing my rug with old jeans and other denim clothing such as skirts or dresses. I cut the denim in stips using a rotary cutter. But I must say that the fabric is really rough on my cutter and on scissors as well. Eventhough the jeans have been washed numerous times they still have lots of sand still left in the fibers of the fabric. And that is the worse thing for sharp scissors or rotary blades. I will use dark jeans, light one and some with stripes or other pattern. I have these things that are used to fold over bias. I don't know what they're called but as you can see in the picture, I use them to fold over the jean fabric as I braid it. That way, all the edges are hidden. I usually will make the braid about 1 meter long then start sewing. I use heavy thread doubled up and roll the edge of the braid on itself and sew it up. As you can see, I try to blend the different blues. I am slowly making progress. I am making mine an oval shape. At first, I thought of making it at least 5' wide but I won't make it that big! Maybe 3' would be big enough. It will probably be placed in front of the wood stove. It's getting quite heavy now and I need to place it on my table (and not on my lap) to work on it. So, for now, it's back in the laudry room closet. I will take it out again once the weather gets cold and the days are short. Hopefully, by next winter, I will be telling you it's all done!
After a break from sewing over the school holidays, it's time to get back to my clothes upcycling challenge . Since the purpost for...
Chose promise, chose due, un DIY avec du crochet ( combo !) : un tapis (aussi appelé rag rug aux States) avec des restes de tissu (draps,...
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Denim Rag Rugs are hard-wearing and fun to make. Use these 10 step-by-step denim rag rug tutorials to make a stylish rug for your home!
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Recycled Fabric Twine Spiral Mat – Rag Rug
Turn the legs of worn-out jeans into a hard-wearing rug thick enough to ease tired feet with this fun crochet project.
My hubby and three teenaged boys wear out a lot of t-shirts and jeans, and i can't bring myself to throw them away. The jeans turn into car blanket sort of quilts, but the i never knew what was in store for the t-shirts until i realized a person could make braided rag rugs with them. This is a quick step-by-step of my process, but please do additional web research in order to get additional options. Used: old t-shirts (22 were used in this project) fabric scissors heavy thread (eg. quilting thread) large needle backing fabric (about 1.5 yd, depending on your finished rug size) 1. I picked all of the red, grey, black and khaki green t-shirts out of my mountain of old cotton. Using my sharp fabric scissors i cut off the bottom hem of the shirt (discard it), and then cut in a single, continuous, upwards spiral around the t-shirt, eyeballing a strip width of 2-2 1/2 inches. Terminate your strip when you run into the armhole seam. 2. If you pull gently lengthwise on each strip, the fabric edges tend to curl in on itself from the sides. I put the ends of three long strips together, inner side of the fabric facing up (the edges thereby curl away from you and you don't see the raw edges), and pinned them to a heavy window curtain. You use the natural curl to make the strips more rope-like, which makes them easy to braid neatly. You may be able to think of something else to pin the braid to, but i found it comfortable to work standing, the braid pinned at about eye level, and then i could braid quickly for 3 feet or so, before unpinning and raising the braid up and re-pinning at about eye level again to continue braiding. You want the braid to be fairly tight. 3. To coil the rug, you want one super long length of braid. When you come to the end of one t-shirt strip while you are braiding, you add another strip to it. Here is a really handy method, which avoids the hard bump a knot would make: *Adding strips end-to-end: a.) Cut a 1/2" slit in end of the old strip and end of the new strip. b.) Insert a few inches of the end of new strip through the slit of old strip, and stick the far end of the new strip through the slit of the new strip and pull the tail all the way through. Give it a bit of a tug, helping with your fingers, and the join kind of melds with itself without a bulky knot. 4. Braid all the material you have into one very big pile. You can finish the ends off by taking several stitches, in place, through all three layers of material and making a knot. This tacks the three ends together without making a bulky knob. 5. Starting with one end of the long braid, begin coiling. As you were braiding, you always try to keep the side of the braid facing you nice and neat. So when you are coiling and stitching now, keep the "untidy" side of your braid facing "up". I opted to make an oblong-shaped rug by keeping the first about 1 foot of the braid straight, and coiling the rest of the braid around it. Stitch the adjacent braid together as you coil the braid. In the photo you can see the relative placement of my ladder stitches, using heavy thread (quilting thread in this case). I would take about 20 stitches and then pull the thread taught. 6. I used a heavy cloth that i had on hand, as the backing. I know most rag rugs don't need a backing, but my rug seems a little loose, and it can't be handled roughly without becoming deformed, so it needs the support of a backing. In case the rug you make also ends up needing a little extra support, i include my directions for backing it here. I basted (heavy black thread in the photo) the backing fabric to the rug, taking a small stitch completely through the braid, and a longer stitch on the back. I found that on the front side of the rug, this small stitch usually disappeared into the many little crevasses of the braid and were almost unnoticeable from the front side. (But it would be wise to more or less match your thread color to your rug color.) The stitching pattern is unimportant, but i started by making a cross, then did a star pattern, and then filled in the big gaps with squiggles. 7. I turned the edge of the backing fabric under in a double fold hem and stitched it down to the rug, securing it only to the back surface of the braids (not taking the stitch straight through to the front). I didn't measure the length of the braid it took to make this 3 1/2 foot rug, but 22 old t-shirts are still being used daily, and have the appreciation of a happy kitty.
Here's how to make a Rag Rug, complete with tutorial and videos and recommendations of supplies. Grab some old sheets and start crafting them into a rug!
Having 501's old denim jeans that have simply seen better days when it comes to fashion, then consider creating something cool with them, save them from the dumpster and give them new life as something totally unexpected. Jeans get better with age as the fabric gets softer, so the older the better! If you don't have enough of your own jeans to create a big projects you want, you can always ask at the Thrift Store, they get many donations of jeans but some are just too far gone to even sell in the store and they tend to get rid of them. So be able to ask for them. Initiative takes in all the old, ripped, overly-acid washed, and never to be worn again jeans lying around and recycles them into sustainable, eco-friendly. Fashion Dresses FootStool Organizer Pouch Bags Furnitures PencilCase Cover Braided Rug Notebook Cover Umbrellas Fashion Dresses House Decor Denim Shoes Laptop Sleeves Pillow Cases Pot Holders Pots Design Pouch Bag LampShades Pouch Bag FootStool Designer Bags Book Cover
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Upcycle Style: Braided T-shirt Rug
***3/5/2014 UPDATE: Check out A Better Recycled Rug for my latest thoughts on rug making*** Ruthie had asked for instructions on my braided denim rug. I don't pretend that my way is the best way, especially since this project has been largely dormant for well over a year. That having been said, I do like the way it looks. I start by cutting the strips into strips that are about 2 1/4 inches wide. I don't care how long the strips are because they will be sewn together into a long strip anyway. I try to keep the strips I've cut organized by color (amount of fading actually). This allows me to keep the colors in my rug marbeled rather than winding up with a big patch of one color or another. To get started, I sew several of the same color strips together until I have a strip that is about 6 feet long. I find anything longer is difficult to work with. You might even want to start with a shorter length until you get used to the braiding process. Repeat this until you have three strips that are about 6 feet long or your chosen length. Here's the time consuming part. I fold the edges of the strips in and sew them together to create a finished edge. So the strip you actually braid with winds up being about a 1/2 inch wide. In looking at other rag rug patterns on the internet (and let's face it, this is a rag rug), I don't know if this is really necessary. I'd love to hear from other people who've done it without sewing the edges. Once I've sewn the edges I roll up most of the strip to make it easier to work with. I sewed the ends of the three strips together and began braiding. This is a pain to get started. I pinned mine to the arm of the couch to keep it steady while I tried to get the braid started. I try to be very deliberate about the braiding and avoid twisting the fabric so the finished product will lay flat. Is this really important? I suspect because of the weight of the denim that it might be. However, if you were using a lighter fabric or you weren't finishing the edges, it probably wouldn't be a big deal at all. Once I had braided a length of about 3 feet, I folded the braid in half and stitched the center together to create the center of my rug. From that point forward, I sew a few more strips on, finish the edges, braid a little, and sew the new lenth of braid onto the rug. To give the rug more stability, I periodically flip it over and sew the back edges of the strips together as well. Ruthie found this rag rug tutorial, which I'm really intrigued by. Here are instructions for another braided rag rug. Here's a book that sounds very interesting on the subject. I've just requested it through inter library loan so I'll let you know how it is. Handmade Rugs from Practically Anything by Jean Ray Laury and Joyce Aiken. Countryside Press: Philadelphia, 1972.
Depuis quelques années je récupère les vieux jeans, les jupes en jeans, les grandes robes larges en jeans et je les empile sur une tablette du garde-robe. Je me disais que je finirais bien par faire quelque chose avec ça. L'hiver dernier, j'ai commencé...
