Rope rug

Decided to make a few rugs for gifts this year.   What a great gift idea for the hard-to-buy for man in your life, this one is going to my dad.

Start with some basics—hot glue gun, glue sticks, and 100 feet of utility rope from your local home improvement store, or boat section of your local Walmart

Start with one end and tightly roll it around its self, gluing as you go. Remember as the hot glue cools it loses it sticking power.

You will want to figure out which way works best for you with putting the glue on the rope and rolling the rope around its self. As you wrap the rope remember that you are trying to make a FLAT rug so make sure you are gluing and sticking on a flat surface. As you can see I used a piece of cardboard to start my rug so I didn’t have a lot of glue on the table.

Keep wrapping and gluing until you get the rug to the size that you would like. This one was made with 50’ of so it was on the smaller size. I also had some leftover red from another rug that I added around the end to add some size and color to the rug.