How to Make a Prodded Rug

Rugs are used in every household. Rugs make excellent accents to your room’s décor. You can make your own rugs cheaply out of material you already have in your home that you no longer use. Do you have an old blanket, denim, corduroy, cotton or felt that you no longer need? All these materials may be used when making your handmade prodded rug. Here is how you make a prodded rug.

Canvas rug backing
Knitting Needle size 10 to 15
Or a Prodding tool
Old material, blanket, denim, felt, cotton, corduroy or felt
Scissors
Basket to hold strips
Needle and thread to sew the hems
Measuring tape or ruler

Instructions

- 1
  Go to a craft store and buy a piece of rug canvas. Choose the size of your anticipated rug. You will need a prodding tool or a large knitting needle size 10-15, to produce your rug.
- 2
  On your canvas cut two inches larger all around than the size of the proposed finished rug.
- 3
  Make a hem evenly throughout the rug, fold over approximately 1 inch all around the outer edges and sew them into place.
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  Take an old blanket, corduroy, denim or felt and measure your strips. You may even choose to use a cotton fabric or lighter material for your prodded rug.
- 5
  Cut your material into strips 1 inch wide and 3 inches long. Set your strips in a tray or basket by your side so that you can easily pick up the pieces for insertion into your rug.
- 6
  Turn your canvas over so that the back side is facing you. Start in the center of the rug working in rows from the center to the edges. Push your fabric through the canvas with the knitting needle or the prodding tool. When pushing the fabric through the hole allow for approximately two inches of fabric through the first hole.
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  Next you will take the other end of your three inch strip and push it through the adjacent hole.
- 8
  Put down the knitting needle, turn your canvas over and grab each end of the fabric, pull on the ends to snug the strip into place. Your strip pieces should look even when you pull on them. The ends of the strips will give a shaggy appearance on the front side of the rug. The back side of the rug will be smooth.
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  Repeat this process with each of your pre-cut strips; do not skip any holes in the canvas. Do not put two strips of fabric into the same hole.

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