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The ragrug man <progress>

I can see my work now. I have a round area big enough for my two feet. Tah Tad.

I can see my skills improving too, as I go along. I have also decided, since I am simply tacking anyway, that I am going to tack shorter strips to each other to make one longer one and maybe even 2 stripes of entirely different color.

Pros and Cons of working with clear nylon thread.

I gave up on it. It was driving me crazy trying to just see the 'darn' stuff. And I convinced myself that it broke just as easy as regular thread and would melt if near anything too hot. What do you-all think?

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Bob Young
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snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (Bob Young) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@storefull-3212.bay.webtv.net:

woohoo!

sounds good. what type of fabric is it? mostly tshirts, or denim or...? i have a 30 gallon tote of old jeans that are going to be a bedspread & probably rugs too.

nylon thread is just plain evil. it breaks really easily (much more easily than regular thread. it doesn't 'age' well at all), it's prickly & it's too springy. lee

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enigma

OK...how do you do this? I just keeping adding on strip after strip, thinking they would just 'have' to fall in place and I expected them to be longer and longer.

I had it flat last night, but what I added today, has formed a bowl and I am not sure if I can stretch it flat.

What is the best way to add on strips at this point? Lay it flat and just tack on strips? Is there a trick to adding on something that will form a flat circle?

Either that or I have a dust cover for a large mixing bowl. :)

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Bob Young

What exactly are you doing?

If you are sew> OK...how do you do this? I just keeping adding on strip after strip,

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snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (Bob Young) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net:

are you braiding the strips with a 3 strand braid? if so, leave the outside edge just a bit looser than the inside edge as you braid. how big is the diameter of your rug now? is it too big to fit comfortably on your lap? that's where i always started having cupping.

a lot of first (second & third) rugs tend to go bowl shaped :) try loosening your tension a bit. you don't have to make really tight braids. lee

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enigma

I suggest you either read a book on rug braiding, or join the rug braiding group on Yahoo. We just started up a new guild in the Delaware Valley area of Pennsylvania, so if you are in this quad-state (NJ,PA,MD,DE), you can tap into our collective wisdom. :-) There is another guild in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Rug Braiders Guild.

In order for your edges not to curl as you attach the braiding strips, you need to start to skip loops in the outside braid. This is why I suggest getting a book on braiding, perhaps from your local library (if they don't have any on the shelves, ask for one to be interlibrary loaned to you). Try _The Illustrated Guide to Rug Braiding_ by Verna Cox or _The Braided Rug Book: Creating Your Own American Folk Art_ by Norma M. Sturges and Elizabeth J. Sturges

Both of these books are excellent starters.

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