How To Make A Solid Felted Wool Rug

Learn how to make a fleece rug with these step by step instructions.

How to make a solid felted wool rug.

How to make a felted wool rug. You can also use scrap pieces of felt or sweater felt for this diy too. Felted fleece rugs use sheep wool from shearing not the sheepskin that is felted using a technique involving hot water soap and rolling. I tried to make the balls even in size but i found that the different types of wool pet hair felted differently.

To get a rug 34 x20 roughly the rug before felting should be 45 x26. A full area rug might take several thousand felt balls while a doormat will require only a few hundred. Most of the felt balls ranged from 1 5 2cm in diameter. Once you have the dried pebbles ready it becomes time to create the rug.

Upcycle sweaters into a gorgeous diy felt rug what you need to make a felt rug. Enough pebbles to cover the size of the rug you are after. So for every 10 inches of fabric i wanted to have in the end i needed to add on 3 inches. Wool sweaters i used the equivalent of 4 5 sweaters for this felt rug.

Mine were mainly cashmere and some lambswool. Wool roving is dyed wool that has not been woven into yarn. You can felt these pieces of wool yourself with hot water and you can shape the wet felt into stone. From the practice swatch i realized the wool shrank 1 5 for every 5 of fabric.

Once the tuft of hair is felted into a ball dip it in the cold water to rinse the longer you roll the smaller and denser it gets. More colors like grey saffron etc. Continue attaching felt balls until the rug is your desired size referring to your pattern as necessary. Can be found there as well.

I kept them in a paper bag until i had enough. Easy felted fleece rug. A felted stone rug is a floor covering made with felted wool rovings. It s now an area rug and i like it better that way.

The finished rug is felted tight on the backside so that it holds its shape and doesn t fall apart. How to make felt stone rugs. No sheep were harmed in the making of this rug. The centre is fine as it had felted on the animal and was in one good solid piece.

The number of balls you ll need will depend upon the rug size and the size of the balls. By sewing these pieces together you can create your own felted stone rug.