Rug Braiding Made Easy

If you're looking for a fun project to DIY and work on during these cold winter days, we've got a great idea, for you Rose Robinson, teaches rug, braiding classes and she's going to show us now how we can make our own braided rug, which sounds so fascinating. This one is absolutely gorgeous. That'S a not a beginner's project. Oh no! No! That'S that's advanced yeah, but I mean you could make something that looks like this. That'S exactly right! That'S actually what the students from the class will end up with and pretty much. If you can braid hair, you can learn how to do this. That'S right! Yeah, that's right! Well, my product is a very green activity. For example, you start with a used. Clothing item. May be from a local thrift shop like an old wool like an old wool skirt, and then the skirt is taken apart and then I wash it and then after I wash it, I make strips like little cuts and then you're going to tear it and help You if you'll grab that side guys just here - and this is a great activity for kids - oh I bet they absolutely love it. So once you've got your strips, then you take your strips and you sew them together and you may make your rolls and then after you have your rolls, the fun begins. You start to braid, so you're bringing three coordinating colors three colors of interest. You can actually do all three colors if you want that's actually how I created the bands of color on the rug behind us and it's actually a series of folding you fold over half and the folding is actually what gives the rug its fullness in its body And learning to braid is just like any other muscle memory: skill, whether it be sports related or crafts related um. You just have to teach your hands how to do it and so, as you're doing the braid you're you're kind of folding over the fabric. Exactly and you're like lifting it and laying it on top of itself, okay to create, so there are no raw edges and you need exactly no raw edges and it doesn't need any filler, because wool is a full fluffy fabric, unlike if you tried to do it With t-shirts or flat and never yeah, well for really the amount of work. That'S involved. Wool is the best product. So this one is a work in progress right here you have to once you get these strips done. You begin sewing them together. Can that affect that? In here here's once you get it to this course. This is a started piece. It'S actually laced together with a hollow core thread, and it's simply just going in and out and then on alternating rows. You actually add in more pieces of braid simply like what you would do when you crochet or knit you're, actually adding increases so you're adding extra loops. So that's what allows it to get bigger allows it to give the curve around the corners and one of the biggest trends. That'S in fiber, arts now is actually taking rug, hooking and attaching braiding to it and putting and putting braiding into the rug hooking, and these are beautiful examples of how that's been done, and so I know that there's not really many braiders in Middle Tennessee, but there Are a lot of rug hookers in Tennessee, and that this might be an opportunity for you to learn how to add some braiding to your hooking? What fun alright! So what your class is coming up with the classes start at at March 10th and they're being held at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Tuesdays, and that will - and you still have plenty of time to register great. Thank you so much for sure. I'M just fascinated by this yeah as part of the national community education program Rose, is going to be teaching these to rug, braiding classes, Tuesday March 10th, at the cone Adult Learning Center 4 times and to register. You can go to our website at news. Channel 5. Comm or back