Our bathroom rug is gross. When we moved in our apartment came fully furnished... including a rug outside our bathroom that used to be white. Now it's gray. Gross.
Here's the problem though... Eventhough I could buy a rug at the store for like $2, I'd have to get something SUPER cute.. like Hello Kitty. So I decided to make one.
The end result didn't come out that much less cute than Hello Kitty (it kind of reminds me of highschool cheer leaders), but I like the concept a lot.
I actually wanted to make this rug that I saw at the Busan Jin market.
Awesome.. no problem.. .except my machine stopped ruffling fabric. Something I did screwed the tension up and my thread kept breaking... so I had to give up and go to Plan B.
TADA
I think Plan B turned out alright. It is definitely a prototype (eventhough we're using it as the actual rug) and I would make it nicer next time. (The colors are crazy because I was trying to use some of the scraps that people had given me!)
I was going to take a bunch of pictures and show you just how I made it but... let's just say Life happens.
If you want to see how I made the fringe part I used the same concept for the Shag Pillow over at V and Co.
I made the rug by putting two pieces of fabric (I used old curtains someone gave me) right sides together and sewing them to a piece of batting. Then I turned the rug right side out and sewed the fringes on. I chose to sew the fringes on after I made the rug for a couple of reasons. 1. I didn't really care if you could see the stitching on the other side because it was my first try and I wasn't sure if it would work anyway and 2. I didnt' think about sewing the fringes on first (like the Shag Pillow) until I finished the rug. I do think that if you wanted to copy this concept, you could totally buy a cute cheap rug (or use your old one) and hot glue fringes in a line to it. No Sew!
That's about it for this one! I won't post on Sunday, but I'll be back on Monday!
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