How Do You Make A Braided Rug With Yarn?
Braided rugs are a work of art, not usually designed at home anymore. Before the age of television, people had more time to work with their hands and were very creative with simple yarn. Here is a fun way to use yarn instead of rags to make a yarn rug that will add beauty and warmth to your floors. Make your yarn ropes by unwrapping each skeins of yarn around two chairs set about 6 feet apart. Tie one end to the back of the chair so it will not come unraveled. This will give you sections that are 14 feet long, approximately. Cut the first six pieces of yarn, unwinding them from the chairs and clamp them together with a clothes pin. Throw it into a large basket. Cut the next six pieces of yarn, hold and clip them together, and add them to the basket. Continue to do this until you have used up the whole skein. Do Steps 1 through 3 for the other two skeins, using a different basket for each different skein, unless they are all the same color. Pick out three sections of yarn, remove the cl
