Making a bath mat with your own hands

Today, many are excited about the idea of ​​making a bath mat with their own hands. Homemade options are original and radiate special comfort and warmth. Rugs are woven from rags, crocheted, and glued together from wine corks and pebbles. We invite you to get acquainted with different types of techniques and get inspired by looking at a selection of ideas.

Homemade Bath Mats - Basics

A bathroom rug must have certain properties:

• do not slip;
• warm;
• be resistant to moisture.

These factors must be taken into account when choosing materials. Products made from natural fabrics or yarn can quickly become damp and moldy. It is better to give preference to materials with a large share of synthetics. For an anti-slip effect, it is recommended to use a rubber backing. It can be purchased at a hardware store.

Difficulties

Needlewomen who have at least once made a carpet with their own hands will confirm that this is not a quick and very difficult task.

• Firstly, you will need at least 5 hours of free time. For a carpet with a diameter of 70 cm you will have to use approximately 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.To do this, use materials of the same size and thickness. Special patterns and tools for weaving will also be useful.

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To make work easier, many craftswomen use a special mesh - Stramin. It can be used in different techniques:

• tie scraps of fabric;
• attach yarn pompoms;
• perform crochet weaving.

What’s most important is that the bath mat turns out to be neat and regular in shape, and the weaving process is greatly simplified. You simply intertwine the threads with the mesh. By the way, Stramin can be replaced with construction mesh or anti-slip mat from Ikea.

The mesh size and thread thickness should be approximately the same.

Making a rug with your own hands

Before you begin, 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 pompoms.

Interesting ideas in the photo:

The decorative top can be glued or sewn to the rubber base with strong threads. It is better to use silicone glue. It is quite strong and not afraid of moisture.

Cork mat

To create a cork mat you will need at least 150 wine corks. First you need to cut them in half. Then everything is simple - glue the halves onto the backing in the chosen 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. It additionally plays the role of a foot massager. The only negative is that the stone is too cold.

Making a pebble rug is easy:

1. Cut out the rubber backing.
2. Lay out the pebbles beautifully.
3. Lift each pebble one by one and glue it to the base with silicone glue.

Yarn bath mat

Perhaps the most popular material for homemade rugs is yarn. Best suited for this purpose:

• tape knitting yarn;
• polyester cord in skeins;
• acrylic yarn (100% acrylic or acrylic with wool);
• jute twine.

You can make your own ribbon yarn by cutting old T-shirts into ribbons and tying them together. Previously, grandmothers used tights for these purposes. But such rugs are not at all colorful and rarely fit into the interior of the bathroom.

Many needlewomen also use colored garbage bags as yarn. They twist them into ropes and roll them into balls. The results are quite good rugs that are resistant to moisture.

Crochet bath mats

You can make a carpet from yarn in different ways. But many people prefer crocheting. The product turns out to be reliable, and crocheting is very easy to master. Even those who have never held it in their hands will be able to knit a simple circle.

Process description:

The thickness of the yarn should match the size of the hook. For thin threads, use a tool numbered 4–6, for knitted tapes – 12.

Bath mat - knitting patterns

If a regular round rug seems boring to you, you can try knitting a more complex version using patterns. Rugs in the shape of a dolphin or footprints are very popular for the bathroom.

Or you can simply sew connected circles together.

Those who are fluent in crocheting can make an openwork or textured carpet. Examples of schemes:

Crochet on the mesh:

From pompoms

These rugs are very soft, warm and cozy. At the same time, they are made quite simply:

1. Make pompoms from threads as follows:
   
2. Tie each pom pom to a net or rubber bath mat. You can use a crochet hook.

Other techniques

You can make a knitted bathroom rug on a machine. Example in the photo:

An analogue of such a machine is made from a wooden frame and nails.

Rag rugs are made from braids. The knitted ribbons are first intertwined and then twisted. You can fasten them together with a needle and thread or simply glue them to a rubber base.

You can also knit carpets from ribbons on this homemade cardboard loom with stretched threads:

A homemade bath mat can be a real source of pride. Choose the option you like and be careful in your work. The result will certainly please you!