Hi and welcome! I was cleaning out the linen closet and I came across 2 very large light colored cotton throw rugs. They were bleached out and had seen their day , I was going to throw them away until I came up with this idea to make them pretty once again. These are the cotton popular carpets so I trimmed the edges up a bit and got busy cutting some heavy fabric that I recently bought a whole bolt at the local thrift store I cut the fabric about 7 inches larger than the carpet.
It was easy sewing and with fabric adhesive I thing you can pull this off very easily. I sewed all th outer edges leaving more material on the ends for fringe.
Simply tearing the material to make knots on each piece created the shabby chic fringe.
And this is what I ended up with this kitty just wanted to play with the fringe , I also have sewn through the middle so their would be no chance at anything coming apart in the wash. I also put some ties in 4 places .
Just picked these sunflowers from my garden
So happy I did not throw them away I imagine you can use any kind of material to do this and Im thinking that maybe fabric adhesive may be a better way to go. I will defiantly be picking up these cotton rugs when I see them at thrifty stores .
Until next time Happy crafting!
Lisa
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