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| A spiral patterned rug made with rainbow colored variegated yarn, close-ups of color and finished edge. |
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| The clean side of the finished rug that was protected by the sticky side of the masking tape. |
Here is a simple way to make a rug for a doll house. It requires no weaving or braiding. The design made from this process reminds me of natural patterns found in agate stones.
Supply List:
- masking tape
- cardboard
- variegated yarn
- white school glue
- embroidery floss and needle
- felt for backing
- First you will need to decide how big you want your doll's rug to be. Then make a cardboard template in the shape of the rug to use as a guide. I traced around a large circular plate on top of my cardboard to make my own template.
- Next, you will need to cover the top surface of the cardboard with masking tape, sticky side up. This can be a little tricky at first. Lay the tacky part of the masking tape face up and wrap it around the edges of the cardboard using a small bit of tape to secure it on the backside of the cardboard template.
- Now start laying your yarn down on top of the surface template at it's center point, butting the yarn up next to it's sides as you create a swirl pattern. The masking tape will hold the yarn strands in place while you press the yarn into a simple rug design. It is very important that you leave no gaps between the application of the yarn rows. Every yarn strand needs to have it's sides touching a yarn strand. (see photo)
- When you have reached the edges of your cardboard template, the rug design is finished!
- Smooth a generous amount of white glue on top of your rug design with your finger tips and let the yarn rug dry overnight.
- Carefully pull the dried yarn rug from the sticky cardboard. Hopefully it can be removed in one piece. However, you may need to apply a bit more glue to the back side of the rug again, in order to get the entire rug to stick together.
- I backed my rug with additional glue and a piece of felt cut to the same size as my rug. But this step is optional.
- Then you can finish the edge of your rug with a blanket stitch using a variegated embroidery floss.
- I also reinforced my finished rug with additional stitching across the design.
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| Left, cover the top surface of the cardboard with masking tape, sticky side up. Center, lay your yarn down on top of the surface template at it's center point. Right, Smooth a generous amount of white glue on top of your rug design with your finger tips and let the yarn rug dry overnight. |
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