A few days ago in our blog we shared how to use the Mayan loom to weave with t-shirt yarn and today you’ll see how to make this type of loom. With a Mayan loom you can make a large variety of beautiful and original weaving. Take some basic carpentry materials and tools (like board, nails, a saw) in order to make your own loom to put into practice the stitches you have learned. Continue reading
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Make flowers and dolls with a round loom
Round molds or looms are used to make fabric flowers of different sizes, multi-layered flowers and also characters and other decorations with t-shirt yarn, wool or thread. Today we will see what we can do with this round mold for flowers. Continue reading
Homemade loom to make rugs easily
In T-shirt yarn we have seen many ways to make rugs with recycled fabric, but an easy method consist in making a loom with sisal thread to make a rug using simple knots, like the rug in the cover photo created by luriandwilma. Continue reading
Homemade cardboard loom for T-shirt yarn
Using cardboard you can make a loom to work with T-shirt yarn. With this loom you can make several crafts, like the coasters in the cover image, tablecloths and other objects, depending of the loom size.
This is an easy project with a great result that allows you to recycle cardboard and use it to work with recycled fabric. Continue reading
Patchwork with T-shirt yarn: rugs
I love these rustic patchwork rugs, maybe because they bring to my mind the patchwork blankets, that are so warm and made with so much love because they carry a great time of manufacture.
These patchwork rugs are a creation of petitepurls who share the step by step to make them using a loom.
Look how cute looks is this work to make it at home with T-shirt yarn. Continue reading
Warp yarn, recycled fabric frame
A technique for working with recycled fabric is the loom, and with it you can make all kinds of tissues like these wipes we are going to see in this tutorial. These looms can be purchased, but also can be made by hand with a cardboard or with a table and brads. Look how cute is this way of doing crafts with fabric strips that alphamom show us in this work for Earth Day. Continue reading