DIY Drop Cloth rug

To tell the truth this is certainly less a rug and much more a floor cloth. It's also one of my new favorite way to include prints into my house. Oh and did I mention it's low priced? Pretty much among my personal favorite DIY's of them all. For some of energy and about fourty bucks you could have an awesome new floor covering. This task could be almost high priced based on exactly how much your textile of preference costs, but because you only require around two yards i cannot see this getting too crazy.

Products

Alene's tacky glue spray (11$)

Residence depot 6x9 drop fabric (10$)

2 yards of wide heavier weight fabric, we utilized ikea's Stockholm print (18$)

Carpeting gripper (already possessed, you could choose one up awesome low priced at Ikea, like five dollars inexpensive)

Sewing machine and bond

Seam measure

Iron

Step one

If you plan on ever being capable put your floor-cloth when you look at the washer, kindly prewash it as you plan on this as time goes on. This can save from benefiting from cool shrinkage and ruining your hardwork! I did not make use of any fabric softener though, because We felt like most tightness would help keep it from curling up.

Second step

Iron out all those wrinkles as soon as your material and drop cloth are dry. We also starched mine somewhat. This will help you manage to sandwich the 2 pieces neatly with the glue.

Step three

Erase the dropcloth and commence applying the tacky glue spray. When I started rolling from textile, right side up and sticking it into drop fabric, slowly removing any bubbles with my fingers. I wound up making use of the whole can, therefore go ahead and be liberal with your spraying. It'd be a smart idea to wear a mask and repeat this part outside. Unless glue fumes are your thing.

Step four

Once all things are good and glued, provide a few momemts to set, cut the drop fabric towards the edge of the material. Flip it therefore the fabric side is down and begin ironing over about a 1 to 1.5 seam allowance utilizing your seam gauge. That seams kind of big, but i believe it adds much more fat towards the finished product.