Today, many are inspired by the idea of making a rug in the bathroom with their own hands. Home-made options are original, they emit special comfort and warmth. Rugs are woven from rags, crocheted, glued from wine corks and pebbles. We offer you to get acquainted with different types of techniques and inspire yourself by looking at a selection of ideas.
Homemade Bath Mats - The Basics
The bathroom mat should have certain properties:
- do not slip;
- warm;
- be resistant to moisture.
These factors must be considered when choosing materials. Products made from natural fabrics or yarn can quickly damp and mold. It is better to give preference to materials with a high proportion of synthetics. For anti-slip effect, it is recommended to use a rubber backing. It can be purchased at a hardware store.
Difficulties
Needlewomen, who at least once made a carpet with their own hands, will confirm that this business is not fast and very difficult.
- Firstly, it will take from 5 hours of free time. For a carpet with a diameter of 70 cm, you will have to spend about 4 skeins of thick yarn or 170 wine corks, 4 knitted T-shirts, 3 kg of pebbles.
- Secondly, you need to give the rug a neat symmetrical shape. For this, materials of the same size and thickness should be used. Special patterns and tools for weaving are also useful.
Life hack
To facilitate the work, many craftswomen use a special mesh - stramin. It can be used in various techniques:
- tie fabric flaps;
- attach yarn pompons;
- crochet weaving.
Most importantly, the bath mat is neat, regular shape, and the weaving process is greatly simplified. You just bind the threads with the net. By the way, stramin can be replaced with a building mesh or anti-slip bedding from Ikea.
The mesh size and thread thickness should be approximately the same.
Do-it-yourself rug
Before starting work, you should decide on the material from which the rug will be made. It can be done:
- from yarn;
- from a terry towel;
- from wine corks;
- from pebbles;
- from packages;
- from old clothes;
- from pompons.
Interesting ideas in the photo:
To the rubber base, the decorative top can be glued or sewn with durable threads. Glue is better to take silicone. It is strong enough and not afraid of moisture.
Cork mat
To create a rug from corks, you need at least 150 corks from wine. First you need to cut them in half. Then everything is simple - glue the halves on the substrate in the selected order:
To make the corks easier to cut, boil them in water for 10 minutes.
Pebble rug
Pebbles in the bathroom look especially impressive if the room is decorated in a marine style. She additionally plays the role of a foot massager. The only negative is the stone is too cold.
Making a pebble rug is simple:
- Cut out the rubber backing.
- Lay out beautiful pebbles.
- Raise each pebble alternately and stick to the base with silicone glue.
Bath mat made of yarn
Perhaps the most popular material for homemade rugs is yarn. Best suited for this purpose:
- knitted tape yarn;
- polyester cord in skeins;
- acrylic yarn (100% acrylic or acrylic with wool);
- jute twine.
You can make ribbon yarn with your own hands by cutting old T-shirts into ribbons and tying them together. Grandmothers used tights for these purposes. But such rugs are not at all colorful and rarely fit into the interior of the bathroom.
And as a yarn, many needlewomen use colored garbage bags. They twist them into bundles and wrap them in balls. It turns out pretty good mats that are resistant to moisture.
Crocheting Bath Mats
There are many ways to make a carpet of yarn. But many people prefer crochet. The product turns out to be reliable, and it is also very easy to master the hook. Even those who have never held it in their hands will be able to connect a simple circle.
Process description:
The thickness of the yarn should match the size of the hook. For thin threads take the tool number 4-6, for knitted ribbons - 12.
Bath mat - knitting patterns
If a regular round rug seems boring to you, you can try to knit a more complex version using schemes. Bath mats in the shape of a dolphin or footprints are very popular.
Or you can just sew related circles together.
Those who perfectly master the hook can make an openwork or textured carpet. Examples of schemes:
We crochet on a grid:
From pompons
These rugs are very soft, warm and comfortable. At the same time, they are made quite simply:
- Make thread pompons as follows:
- Tie each pompom to a mesh or rubber bath mat. You can use the hook.
Other techniques
You can make a knitted carpet for the bathroom on the machine. Example in the photo:
An analogue of such a machine is made of a wooden frame and nails.
Rug mats are made of braids. Knitted ribbons are first intertwined, and then twisted. They can be fastened together with a needle and thread or simply glued to a rubber base.
And you can also knit carpets from ribbons on such a homemade cardboard machine with stretched threads:
Homemade bath mat can be a real pride. Choose the option you like and be careful when working. The result will certainly delight you!