Today I want to tell you how you can weave textile boxes or baskets from very simple and affordable materials. These wicker things have a lot of advantages: they are not afraid of creasing, they are durable, light and practical, they can be washed, they can be twisted, changing the size and shape. Alone positive sides. You can choose the size and color for the interior. In addition, they are very easy to weave, and you can find a lot of applications for them!

What will be needed in the work:

• insulation for windows and doors (sold in hardware stores, in my case 10 meters long and 1.5 cm in section);
• piece of cloth.

Absolutely any fabric will do (just not quite thick). The longer the cut, the longer the strips of fabric will be and the fewer knots there will be. finished work. The knots are practically invisible, I didn’t even have to specially remove or mask them somehow. The fabric can be selected in different colors to make a patterned basket.

In addition, you will need a needle with a large eye (my needle has an eye size of almost 1.5 cm). It is good if you pick up a darning needle with a large eye and a blunt tip.
There are several options for creating such baskets: you can glue each layer with hot glue or sew sewing threads. But if you use glue, the work will not look very neat, it will still not work perfectly to hide the glue between the fabric.
If you sew the layers with sewing threads, again, you will need to sew very carefully so that the threads are not visible. This work is long and painstaking. The threads may break during the operation of the basket.
Considering all these points, I chose the simplest, most reliable, economical and fastest way of weaving. We will interweave each layer with strips of the same fabric.

We cut the fabric into strips 5-6 cm wide and 1.5-2 cm wide. Wide strips will go to wrap the insulation, and we will twist the narrow insulation.

We wrap the insulation with a cloth. The very tip can be fixed for reliability with glue.

Please note that I wrapped a part of the insulation and, so that the fabric does not unwind, I secured it with a pin. We pass a narrow strip of fabric through the needle. We twist the insulation with a snail, forming the bottom of the future basket.

We intertwine the layers of insulation with a narrow strip of fabric: we skip the needle, capturing two layers. In work, you can help yourself with pins, fixing the fabric.

When the strip ends, we simply tie the next piece. All nodules after will be safely hidden.

There are already five layers of the bottom. With a narrow strip of fabric, we weave the last and penultimate layers all the time. I turned the narrow strip with the light side up to create a pattern.

When the bottom of the future basket or box is ready, we move on to weaving the walls.

The next layer is laid on top, fixed with needles (on the right). Also weave with fabric.

I wove ten turns of the basket. Let's move on to shaping the handles. The top can be decorated in different ways. You can weave the cover.

To make the handles the same, I used a can of chips. She laid it on top of the basket, braided it with insulation.

The heater was fixed with pins.

The basket is very strong, at the same time and light. In itself, the insulation material is durable, but also braided with fabric, a hundred times stronger. Yes, in such a basket you can safely carry weights.

In the process of weaving, I hid the knots under the fabric, so that in the finished work they are almost invisible.

The handles seemed very thick for such a basket, so I untwisted the last two layers. Finished a basket without handles. You can leave it in this form: store balls and toys, textiles or gloves. Yes, whatever.

And you can weave a pigtail handle, turning it into a textile bucket. I want to add that such a basket is woven very quickly and easily.

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Weaving in patchwork - new interesting idea for needlework. Want to take a break from sewing patchwork and try something new? Stripe patchwork is a great opportunity to channel your creativity into creating creative gizmos. Let's work together with a new direction in style patchwork, we will make a needle bed. But we will do this not from shreds, but from strips of fabric.

For work we need:

• fabric (preferably cotton);
• adhesive tape for fabric ("cobweb");
• basic sewing accessories;
• filler.

Step-by-step instruction. Stripe patchwork.

Step 1

For a striped patchwork pincushion, we need:

• 2 pieces of fabric 9 cm wide and 20 cm long - for the base;
• 4 strips 4 cm wide and 25 cm long - for weaving;
• 8 strips 4 cm wide and 12 cm long - for weaving.

Step 2

We lay the edges along the length by 1.5 cm. Between them we lay a “cobweb” - so that the edges stay in place. We iron with a hot iron.

Step 3

We take the fabric for the base. We impose strips along the length (4 pieces 25 cm long) at the same distance from each other.

We sew the narrow part. The bands remain fixed at the top.

We start "weaving": we raise the first and third strips, apply the strip horizontally, lower it. Raise the second and fourth strip, lay the second strip horizontally. We fix with pins. Thus, we continue to lay all the stripes.

After all the strips are laid, we lay a machine line along the perimeter of the canvas. Cut off unnecessary pieces.

Step 4

The turn has come to sew together the front and back sides of the pillow, while not forgetting to leave the unstitched part so that it can be turned inside out. We fill with filler, we sew up the hole with a blind seam.

We hope the main idea of ​​the technique is clear. Now you can use it for your creative fantasies! Good luck!

Evgenia Smirnova

To send light into the depths of the human heart - this is the purpose of the artist

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Floor covering for the house can be not only bought, but made with love with your own hands. Many needlewomen can sew a patchwork rug with their own hands in just a few hours if they use a little trick in its manufacture.

How to make patchwork rugs with your own hands

There are many techniques for making a do-it-yourself fabric rug. Each allows you to fantasize and be creative on the topic of flooring. At special classes and master classes, they teach how to create voluminous or flat rugs, pleasant to the touch or the simplest, “rustic”. When choosing any technique, it is important to prepare a lot of scraps of fabric, for which old things, unnecessary yarn, or even T-shirts and T-shirts bought at the lowest price will come in handy.

Basic techniques for making rugs:

• Knitting - natural yarn or narrow strips of fabric are prepared here, which are knitted according to the classical pattern.
• Patchwork is the creation of a mosaic of different shreds that are sewn together into one whole.
• Weaving is similar to knitting, only knitting needles with a hook are not used here, but there is a base on which threads or shreds are superimposed.
• Stitching - either pigtails from shreds are used, or balls with synthetic winterizer inside - this is how the volume is obtained.

Do-it-yourself knitted patchwork rug

To make a do-it-yourself rug from strips of fabric in a knitted style, follow the instructions:

1. Prepare the material for work - you can take old T-shirts, T-shirts, from which the bottom seams are cut off.
2. The material is cut with scissors into narrow long strips. Cutting goes in a spiral or like this: stripes are cut in a folded product (slightly short of the seam), then the thing is opened and cut into one continuous tape.
3. It can be used for knitting needles, but it is more convenient to do it with a crochet.
4. The rug is knitted from the simplest air loops with single crochets - you get a rectangular shape of the product.
5. If you take 5 loops, close into a ring, and add loops on each row, you get a round shape.
6. For a change, you can mix colors - the rug will turn out bright, intricate.

Do-it-yourself carpets in patchwork technique

Beautiful and original are "patchwork" products. Do-it-yourself patchwork-style rugs from scraps of fabric are easy to make. To make them, follow the instructions:

1. Prepare the material - scraps of fabric, shreds, themed pieces with prints specially bought in stores or on the Internet.
2. Wash new fabrics, steam them, and starch and iron old scraps.
3. Dense fabrics are perfect for rugs - tweed, gabardine, drape.
4. For a longer product life, take a lining - it can be foam rubber, synthetic winterizer, batting or a dense carpet base.
5. Bring all pieces of fabric to one size and shape, use a template for this, you do not need seam allowances for dense materials.
6. Take the base, stitch all the pieces of fabric on it in a chaotic manner or following certain patterns and images. Patterns for patchwork can be found in specialized magazines or on the Internet.
7. Once you've mastered simple sewing, you can try making rugs with curved lines or intricate patterns.
8. A variety of patchwork is a knitted type, in which the shreds are not sewn together, but tied together.
9. To obtain a soft voluminous rug, you can use the quilting technique, in which 2 canvases are sewn together, and a synthetic winterizer is laid between them.

How to weave a patchwork rug without a hook

If you are not a master of crocheting, then you have the opportunity to weave rugs from scraps of fabric with your own hands without it, using a little trick. How to do it:

1. Take a special large photo frame or make a base for a future product according to the desired dimensions from wood.
2. On two opposite sides, stuff the carnations in 2.5 cm increments.
3. For threads, use all the same old T-shirts or T-shirts, knitted ones are better.
4. Pull the threads over the studs - this will be the base.
5. Take the working thread - let it be contrasting, skip it alternating under the warp and above it.
6. Continue to weave the threads, include different colors.
7. To get a fringe, you can tie the threads to each other and not cut the ends, for smooth weaving, it is better to cut them.
8. Periodically, weaving will need to be pulled up to the first row to get the desired density.
9. When finished weaving, remove unnecessary details on the wrong side, remove the finished product.
10. You can decorate the rug if you wish.

Volumetric patchwork rugs

Making voluminous rugs from scraps of fabric with your own hands will take more time and fabric, but it's worth it. The coating is original, fun and very popular with children. There are several varieties of manufacturing volume rugs:

1. Pompom base - for it, take square pieces of fabric, form balls of them with filler in the form of a synthetic winterizer, sew them together.
2. Grandma's rug - pigtails are woven for it, which then need to be sewn together in a spiral or in any other order with a thick, strong thread.
3. Cut thick knit fabric (sweaters) into strips and let them spin on their own - to speed up the process, you can wash the strips in washing machine only with water. The twisted strips are sewn together to form a voluminous rug.
4. You can knit a long ribbon of yarn 10 cm wide and several meters long, in each row knit the last loop as a purl so that the fabric is twisted. Then lay the material in the desired order (spiral, circle) and sew together.
5. It is possible to immediately knit a spiral - for this you need to grab and knit the extreme loop of the finished fabric.
6. To create a do-it-yourself rug in the form of grass, you need to prepare the base - a rigid mesh, which is sold in hardware stores. It is better to take with large cells, wherever the hook goes. We prepare the fabric - knitted stripes or cotton. It is better to start weaving from the center - you need to place the strip under the mesh and pull both ends to the front surface with a hook, then tie a tight knot on the cell wall with a brace. After filling in all the cells, you will receive a fluffy rug.

We will need 2 pieces of fabric (any one that is convenient to work with, you can choose a prettier fabric for the lining) of the same shape and size, depending on the size and shape of the future cosmetic bag (or bag, or wallet). Lightning. The length of one of the sides = the length of the zipper that we will insert. And you will need ribbons cut according to the sides of the fabric. It is better to cut tapes with a small margin - +5 mm. (I didn’t have enough brown and beige lurex ribbons, so I combined them with beige ribbons without lurex).

We work with one piece of fabric, the second is postponed. We fix the ribbons from one end along the 2 sides of the base fabric, which make up a right angle.

We start to weave.

Weaving option 1 - let's call it "Chess". He is the simplest.

The tape from the vertical row is intertwined with the tapes from the horizontal row as follows: the tape from the vertical row passes once OVER, once UNDER the tapes of the horizontal row, alternating one at a time.

The next, second tape from the vertical row is intertwined with the tapes from the horizontal row, now vice versa - first UNDER, and then OVER the tapes of the horizontal row, also alternating one at a time.

The next, third tape from the vertical row is interlaced in the same way as the first. The fourth is like the second. And so, alternating, weave until all the ribbons are intertwined.

In the process of work, it is necessary to compact the interlaced rows, either holding the interlaced ribbons with one hand, and pulling up the non-interlaced, horizontal ones with the other. Or, with one palm, holding the unbound ends of the ribbons, and with the fingers of the other, shifting the twisted ends, compacting them.

It is desirable to fix the ends of already interwoven tapes, otherwise they will spread.

It's already half done.

And now all the ribbons are intertwined and their ends are fixed around the perimeter. (Ribbons are attached to the base fabric only along the perimeter).

We cut off the uneven ends of the tapes.

What we got, we fold in half with ribbons inside. Sew on both sides. Better with hands to avoid sewing ribbons running parallel to the stitching.

We just sewed two sides. But in general, at this stage, walls of any shape - round, square, etc. can be inserted (sewn) on both sides. Then we get a voluminous cosmetic bag, bag, wallet. (As I did in a napkin holder, for example). The sides can also be of interlaced ribbons, or simply a piece of fabric that matches the ribbons or a contrasting color.

We twist.

We take the second piece of fabric - it will serve as a lining for us. We sew on both sides, preferably grabbing a few extra millimeters into the seam so that the lining is slightly smaller than the base of the cosmetic bag and so that it does not gather inside.

Without twisting, insert the lining into the main part.
At this stage, between the lining and the main part, you can insert some kind of dense, but elastic material - for example, very dense polyethylene - to keep our thing in shape. But she will keep her shape anyway due to interlaced ribbons - they do not allow the cosmetic bag to be very soft.

We bend the raw edges into which the zipper will be sewn inward to each other (ribbons to the lining, lining to the ribbons), fasten with pins.

This I tried to collect the resulting bag. So that's good too. But we're moving on.

We sew a zipper. Better with your hands, carefully, so that the threads are not visible from the outside, or at least they would not spoil the overall look, but inside they would look neat.

We hide the edges of the zipper inside.

And here's what we got:

If necessary, the lining can be sewn to the base in the corners so that it does not turn out.

I didn't choose the shape very well. It was necessary to make a smaller length, a larger width. Okay, this is just an example.
If you sew on a long handle or 2 short ones, you get a handbag, if you make it 2 times shorter (across), you get a nice wallet, you can decorate it with bows, as I decorated the napkin holder, or something else. And on the inner lining you can still sew small pocket for a mobile phone or for keys, if it is a bag.

Now consider 2 more options for weaving.
Option 2 - let's call it "Herringbone" (see Napkin Holder for an example of weaving).

In the same way as in Option 1 ("Chess"), alternating we lay the tape UNDER and ABOVE the rows, only capturing not 1 row, but 2 each.

We begin to weave the second tape, the pattern shifts one row: 1 OVER, 2 UNDER, 2 OVER, 2 UNDER ... and so on until the end of the row, alternating by 2.

We lay the first tape, alternating 1 time OVER the side, 2 times UNDER the side, 1 OVER, 2 UNDER. And so on - 1-2-1-2-1-2...

We weave the second tape, shifting the pattern by 1 row (see Weaving the farthest, first tape from the second row): 2 UNDER, 1 OVER, 2 UNDER, 1 OVER. And so on until the end of the row, alternating "-1-2-1-2-1 ...

We weave the third tape, again shifting the pattern by 1 row (see Weaving the previous, second tape from the second row): 1 UNDER, 1 OVER, 2 UNDER, 1 OVER, 2 UNDER, 1 OVER - and so on until the end of the row, alternating 1- 2-1-2-1-2...
Each time the weaving changes only in the first row, because. the drawing moves.
Further always according to the scheme.

The fourth ribbon repeats the weaving of the first: 1 OVER, 2 UNDER, 1 OVER, 2 UNDER - and so on until the end of the row. Accordingly, the fifth ribbon repeats the weaving of the second, the sixth - the third - and so on until the end.

In general, you can use ribbons of the same color (it also turns out very nicely) or vice versa, combine not 2, but more colors, making patterns. Or you can combine narrow ribbons with wide ones, it will also be beautiful.
I thought that this is how you can make a hat and decorate clothes - a tunic, for example (twist ribbons on separate strips of fabric, and then sew on). Well, that's enough fantasy.

The rug is practical and useful thing in every house. It gives a feeling of comfort, warmth and coziness. If you need such a thing, do not rush to run to the store. Try making your own rug. There are many benefits to this process. Firstly, a handmade rug will be unique, it can be of any shape, size and design. Second, it will help you save money. Thirdly, you will get rid of old unnecessary things. In this article we will look at how to make a do-it-yourself rug from shreds of fabric.

Knitting- narrow strips of fabric are interconnected according to the classical scheme.

Patchwork- pieces of fabric are sewn together and create a mosaic.

Weaving- a special base is used, on which pieces of fabric are woven or superimposed.

Stitching- the details of the rug are created, for example, balls with padding polyester or pigtails from scraps of fabric, then all the details are sewn together to form a rug.

You will need: old T-shirts, T-shirts or fabric, scissors, a crochet hook or knitting needles (it is more convenient to crochet a rug).

Master Class

1. Cut off the bottom seams of the T-shirts.
2. Cut t-shirts into long, narrow strips, or cut the item so that you get a continuous strip.
3. To create a rectangular rug - take simple air loops with single crochets.
4. To create a round rug - take 5 loops, lock into a ring and add loops on each row.

Knitted rug from shreds of fabric is ready! I recommend watching the video master class!

Patchwork patchwork rug

You will need: dense fabric (for example: drape, gabardine, tweed), lining (for example: batting, foam rubber, synthetic winterizer, carpet base), scissors, threads, needle, sewing machine(if it is not there, do not despair, the work can be done manually), iron.

Master Class

1. Iron the fabric.
2. Cut the fabric into strips of the same size.
3. Take the lining and pre-place strips of fabric on them. They can be arranged horizontally, vertically, in a chaotic manner, creating a pattern according to a certain pattern.
4. Sew strips of fabric onto the lining or sew them on by hand.

A rug made of scraps of fabric using the patchwork technique is ready!

You will need: old T-shirts, T-shirts or fabric (it is better to use knitted fabric), scissors, a large wooden frame, a ruler, carnations, a hammer.

Master Class

1. Take wooden frame for future weaving.
2. Drive nails with a distance of 2.5 cm on two opposite sides of the frame.
3. Cut the fabric into strips.
4. Stretch the strips horizontally and fasten them to the studs. This will be the base of the rug.
5. Weave the first strip in this way: pass it under the base of the rug, and then over it. The strip should be vertical with respect to the horizontal base and should be in contact with all stripes of the base of the future rug.
6. Weave the desired number of strips, creating a good density of the rug. Remember to pull the woven strips up to the first strip.
7. Fasten the weave with knots from the wrong side.
8. Remove the finished product from the wooden structure.

A woven rug made of shreds of fabric is ready! I recommend watching the video master class!

This rug is made using the patchwork technique. It is very warm and soft and the kids love it.

You will need: old T-shirts, T-shirts or fabric (it is better to use knitted fabric), scissors, synthetic winterizer or foam rubber, threads, a needle.

Master Class

1. Cut the fabric into squares of the same size.
2. Form balls from synthetic winterizer or foam rubber.
3. Make pompoms by connecting squares with fillers.
4. Sew the pom-poms together or sew them tightly to each other to the fabric base.

You will need: old T-shirts, T-shirts or fabric, scissors, ruler, thick thread, needle.

Master Class

1. Cut the fabric into strips 5 cm wide.
2. Weave a long braid of stripes. While weaving, increase the length of the stripes by adding other stripes, securing them with a needle and thread.
3. Twist the pigtail in a spiral and do not forget to periodically fasten it with a thread from the wrong side of the product.

Grandma's spiral-shaped rug is ready! I recommend watching the video master class!

You will need: a rigid mesh with large cells for the hook to pass through (it can be purchased at a hardware store), knitted or cotton fabric, scissors.

Master Class

1. Cut the fabric into strips.
2. Take a rigid mesh as a base.
3. Start weaving from the center in this way: place the fabric strip under the mesh, crochet both ends of the strip to the front surface, then pull back a little and tie a tight knot on the cell wall.
4. Fill in all cells of the grid in the same way.

A rug in the form of grass from shreds of fabric is ready! I recommend watching the video master class!

Rugs made from shreds of fabric will last a long time. They are very practical and easy to use. Before creating a rug from scraps of fabric, consider its design, color, shape, size and manufacturing technique. Remember, the rug should harmoniously fit into the interior of your home, decorate it exquisitely, and emphasize the style of the decor. Create an exquisite masterpiece with your own hands!