What crochet to crochet from jute. Twine rugs: practical tips for making your own

Good afternoon friends!

One of the newfangled trends in needlework is products made from twine. And not only small crafts, but also carpets and twine rugs appear in our homes. They are very effective, practical and inexpensive. Such products in country, eco, and Provence styles are especially appropriate.

It would be interesting for us needlewomen to make rugs with our own hands. For a long time now I have been looking at photos that are often found on networks and very attract attention. A long time ago I tried to crochet a small jute napkin, but it turned out to be rough and I didn’t like it. But it turns out that in order for a thing made of twine to be soft, beautiful and of high quality, you need to know some features that I myself recently understood after visiting Natalia Petrova’s Miracle Crafts channel.

DIY rugs made from twine with glue

Let’s immediately clarify what kind of twine we are talking about. This is essentially a household rope, but the rope is not paper, not flax, but jute. The first two types of rope are made in several twists, are uneven in width, rough, and are suitable only for household needs.

Jute twine is used to make rugs.

Jute is a natural, durable material, has high strength and hygroscopicity, is very pliable, it can be given any shape and painted in the desired color.

Twine rugs hold their shape well and do not crumple underfoot.

You can make a jute rug with your own hands by twisting the rope into small circles, ovals, or laying it in fancy patterns. The parts are glued together with a glue gun.

It is not difficult to create such a rug or even a very large carpet, however, this method has disadvantages: a very large consumption of glue. In addition, such rugs are not practical; it is not even recommended to walk on them.

You can, of course, sew the parts together with a needle and thread.

But I’m still interested in the third option – crocheting.

Crochet twine rugs

Crocheting with jute is a pleasure. I already had such experience in creating and. Since the thread is thick, the whole process happens quite quickly. The only trouble is the debris that falls from the twine. Therefore, you need to knit on the bare floor, not on a carpet, or lay something down to make it easier to clean up later.

You also need to choose the right material and then carry out some more manipulations, especially with rugs.

Which twine to choose

Household twine, as I already said, is not suitable for knitting rugs; the product from them will not be beautiful and neat.

It is better to buy jute twine wound on cylindrical bobbins, rather than in skeins and balls.

The color of the threads is golden, not gray.

You should also pay attention to the quality of the winding: it should be even, tight and beautiful. On good jute, the winding is made in triangles.

The rope should have a twist of 2 threads, each one mm thick. Those. twine thickness – 2 mm.

The parameters indicated on the labels are: 2x560 tex (2 – number of twists, 560 – density), according to which we select twine in a hardware store, or better yet, in a craft store.

Twine consumption

Twine spools are available in different weights: 0.5 kg, 1 kg; 1.5 kg.

It is better to knit rugs in two folds, i.e. from two reels at the same time.

A rug with a diameter of one meter requires about 1200 grams of thread.

And accordingly, for knitting from such a thickness of rope, a hook with number 6 is suitable.

Colored finish

To decorate rugs with colored fragments, it is better to use ordinary wool yarn for knitting (cheap Circassian or rustic).

This yarn usually has a twist of two or three strands. We take yarn in three twists in two folds, just like twine, and from 2 twists we fold it into three threads.

Although the twine can be dyed and bleached, carrying out such procedures with a large amount of jute for rugs is not convenient and takes a long time. After all, rewinding into small skeins, dyeing, drying, and rewinding into balls can only be done in very small batches.

Heat treatment of the finished rug

A rug knitted from twine will initially be hard, rough, wooden and unsightly, all the posts in it will stand like a stake.

To correct this situation, the rug must be washed and steamed with an iron.

In addition, after washing and drying, the lint from the twine will no longer come out and the rug will not become shaggy.

Wash

To wash small rugs weighing up to 4-5 kg, you can use a washing machine.

Washing mode: delicate, temperature – no higher than 30 degrees. Jute products cannot be washed at high temperatures. In principle, the rules are the same as for woolen items.

There is no need to pour powder; it is better to use liquid detergent for woolen or delicate items.

After washing, the rug will be saturated with water and it would be better to dry it on special racks, where the water will flow down. But if there are none, we dry the rug on the floor, laying it out with plastic bags and straightening it out thoroughly.

As the fibers dry, they become softer right before your eyes.

Large items that cannot be placed in a machine and washed by hand are laid out on the floor, with something underneath, covered with a wet cloth and smoothed with an iron.

Ironing

After the rug has dried, it should be ironed with a very hot iron, or rather steamed through 2 layers of wet cloth (not gauze). There is no need to press hard with your hand; we apply the iron to the product and, starting from the middle part, smoothly smooth it out to the edges.

When ironing the edges, we correct the edge of the product.

First, iron from the front side, and 10 minutes later, after the rug has cooled and dried, iron from the back.

The fibers of the twine will return to their original state, will remember it in it and will remain forever even after subsequent washes.

After heat treatment, a twine rug will become soft, smooth, and amazingly beautiful.

Another question may arise: ? I have some tips on this topic in a separate post.

I would like to bring to your attention another very interesting and simple method of making DIY twine Easter basket. This option requires basic crocheting skills, since we will be knitting the basket from jute twine.

The basket will be textured and very unusual.

To work you will need:

jute twine,
hook No. 3.5-5,
suitable shape (you can take any deep dish or jar),
PVA glue,
water,
container for mixing glue and water,
food pouch,
scissors,
for decoration: braid or lace, craft wire (diameter 3 mm),
hot glue gun.

We decide on a jar or deep bowl that will act as a mold for our basket.

First we knit a circle...

To crochet a circle, in each row we will increase the number of intermediate loops between the additions of columns.

We start by closing two air loops into a circle. It is important to make the first loop larger, since we will knit 6 single crochets from it.

So..., threading the hook into the second loop from the hook (Fig. 5), we knit 6 single crochets (Fig. 6).

We close with a connecting stitch, which we knit into the first loop of the row. We make an air lifting loop.

Any knitting rows in the round begins and ends exactly the same. First, lifting loops must be made, and at the end a half-column is knitted from the last column of the row to the first column of the same row, thereby connecting the end and the beginning of the row. This will also help you avoid getting tangled in knitting and add stitches evenly.

2nd row: 2 sc. in each column of the previous row. In total you will get 12 loops (or sc.)

3rd row: 1 sbn, 2 sbn. in the column of the previous row. We alternate like this until the end of the row. In total you will get 18 loops (or sc.)

4th row: 1 sc in each of the two loops of the previous row, 2 sc. in the column of the previous row. Alternate = 24

5th row: 1 sc in each of the three loops of the previous row, 2 sc in the column of the previous row. Alternate = 30

Row 6: 1 sc in each of the four loops of the previous row, 2 sc in the column of the previous row. Alternate = 36

We evenly increase the number of loops by tying the container you have chosen until the volume increases. We try it on periodically for control.

Then we knit 1 sc in each loop of the previous row. = 36

So we knit the edges of our basket to the desired length.

It is important not to cut the tails of the twine, we will do this later.

We take the prepared form and put a food bag on it.

We dilute PVA glue 1:1 with water (50 ml of glue and water was enough for me).

Mix and saturate the workpiece well. Leave for 10 minutes.

Squeeze out a little excess glue and stretch it onto the mold.

After about a day, the twine will dry and you can remove the basket blank from the mold.

Remove the workpiece from the mold and remove the bag.

Now you can trim the twine tails...

The result is a very rigid frame that can be decorated to your taste.

Handles can be formed from braid and wire; we attach everything with a hot glue gun.

Crocheted twine Easter basket is ready...

You can put colored eggs or sweets in such a basket.

Have fun creating!

I was glad to help!

Creating order in the house is impossible without distributing various little things to certain places. Decorative baskets are perfect for this; they carry not only a functional load, but also give the room a cozy atmosphere. If the needlewoman is “friendly” with crochet, then knitting such a basket will not take much time. The craft is made by crochet, the diagram and description of the work on which are presented below are quite simple, and the final product looks quite presentable.

The basket can be knitted in different ways. All of them are suitable for beginner craftswomen. The bulk capacity requires high knitting density and strong yarn. In this case, a craft rope that is crocheted will help replace the yarn. The corresponding master class will tell you how to do this.

Brilliant and simple

The basket is designed for storing large items, ranging from handicraft supplies in the form of balls of yarn and scraps of fabric, and ending with soft toys.

To work you will need:

rope for needlework;
large hook;
cotton yarn.

To make the product textured, it is advisable to take yarn whose color contrasts with the color of the rope.

Knitting begins from the base of the product. The chain is crocheted from the selected yarn. The number of loops depends on the size of the future basket.

The next step will be tying the handmade cord. To do this, you should step back a little from the beginning of the rope and connect the knitted chain to the cord.

Pull out the last loop of the chain and wrap the rope around the top side. Through the previous loop of the chain, hook the thread from the underside of the cord so that the rope is inside the knitting.

There should be two loops on the hook, which are then connected into one. The thread runs along the top side of the cord. The hook, through the adjacent loop of the chain, again picks up the thread from below and pulls it out.

The two formed loops are knitted. In a similar way, the rope is tied along the entire length of the initial chain.

The thread already clings to the loops with which the cord was previously tied, connecting the parts of the rope to each other. The work is carried out to the edge of the previous tying of the rope, after which the cord is turned again in a spiral.

This is how the bottom of the craft rope basket is formed. When the bottom has reached the desired size, work moves on to the walls of the basket. In this case, it is carried out in the same way as the bottom.

You just need to position the cord perpendicular to the bottom. You can do this with your own hands by twisting the rope inside the knitting so that the outer “side” of the loops moves from one plane to another.

In order to make handles, it is enough to stop hooking the loops of the previous row of binding in the area chosen for the handles.

At the same time, in order to create space for gripping, it is necessary to make an allowance on the rope, and then resume knitting the basket itself.

A similar trick should be performed on the opposite side.

To create a softer version of the basket, you can use knitted yarn. The product is made from knitted yarn by continuous single crochet stitches. This type of basket is round.

In order to round the walls, you will need to smoothly tighten the loops while working.

A basket is made in a similar way using a string of twine.

To make the twine look neat in the product, you can treat the finished knitting with PVA glue. A twine basket perfectly decorates a room. And to avoid the boring appearance of the finished product, it is enough to add a contrasting border and an unusual handle. This design will allow you to use such a basket as a decorative container for Easter eggs or Christmas tree decorations.

In knitting original baskets, any type of material twisted into a thread is applicable.

An extraordinary solution would be to make the product using plastic bags. It is best to take garbage bags, as they have a fairly long canvas and are made from a fairly dense material.

To knit a basket from garbage bags, you should cut suitable bags into thin strips and twist them into a single ball. Next, standard crochet techniques are carried out.

The finished product looks interesting if you use colored polyethylene.

At the same time, tight knitting allows you to create a completely durable basket for all sorts of household items.

If desired, such a basket can be equipped with a lid to match the main product.

Video on the topic of the article

The videos below will help you better understand the nuances of crochet.

Every home has a couple of plastic mayonnaise buckets in case of “what if”, which seem to be unnecessary, but you don’t dare throw them away. And a good housewife may really need them, the main thing is to make them presentable.

I want to tell you about the idea - what can be made from mayonnaise buckets, giving them a second life, using all kinds of available materials. We will tie the mayonnaise bucket with twine. Yarn, of course, is much easier to knit, but twine will give a very unusual and interesting texture to your product.

We will knit the basket from jute twine, you can use jute thread, it is softer. There will be a removable cotton cover inside.

To work you will need:

jute twine,
hook No. 3.5-5,
a mayonnaise bucket of the desired size,
scissors,
for decoration: braid or lace, ribbons, etc.,
hot glue gun.
for the inner cover: any suitable fabric, needle, thread, elastic band, pin, sewing machine (for convenience).

First we knit a circle...

To crochet a circle, in each row we will increase the number of intermediate loops between the additions of columns.

When knitting in the round, it is very important to evenly distribute the number of knitted stitches, so first I will present you with a diagram.

We start by closing two air loops into a circle.

It is important to make the first loop larger, since we will subsequently knit 6 single crochets from it.

To knit in the round with single crochets, the initial circle should consist of 6 loops or single crochets.

Threading the hook into the second loop from the hook (Fig. 5), we knit 6 single crochets (Fig. 6).

We close with a connecting stitch, which we knit into the first loop of the row.

If you count, now you can see 6 loops formed by single crochets of the first row. We do not take the connecting loop into account.

We make an air lifting loop.

Let's move on to the second row...

We knit two single crochets into the first loop of the previous row (! Not into the chain lifting loop). So we knit two single crochets in each loop to the end of the row. Total 12 columns (lifting does not count)

We close the connecting column into the loop of the first column of the second row and make an air lifting loop.

3rd row: 1 sbn, 2 sbn. in the column of the previous row. We alternate like this until the end of the row. In total you will get 18 loops (or sc.)

4th row: 1 sc in each of the two loops of the previous row, 2 sc. in the column of the previous row. Alternate = 24

5th row: 1 sc in each of the three loops of the previous row, 2 sc in the column of the previous row. Alternate = 30

Row 6: 1 sc in each of the four loops of the previous row, 2 sc in the column of the previous row. Alternate = 36

7th row: 1 sc in each of the five loops of the previous row, 2 sc in the column of the previous row. Alternate = 42

We evenly increase the number of loops by tying the container you have chosen until the volume increases. We try it on periodically for control.

Then we knit 1 sc in each loop of the previous row. = 42

So we knit the edges of our basket to the desired length.

We do not cut the tails of the sword, since the thread is coarse, it is not possible to tighten it so that it holds tightly. We will then fix them with hot glue on a plastic base.

We coat the bottom of the plastic bucket with hot glue and immediately put our piece of twine on top, pressing the bottom well. This is necessary so that the bottom is well fixed and does not bulge. We also glue it on top with hot glue.

We sew a cover from any suitable fabric; there is an elastic band at the top, so the cover will be removable.

We wrap the handles with twine in a spiral, fixing the twine thread with hot glue if necessary.

We close the holes in the handle with curls of twine, but glue it not to the fabric, but only to the twine on the handle.

Decorate to your liking...

Have fun creating!

I was glad to help!

In terms of handicrafts, I usually do everything in stripes; I either binge sew or knit enthusiastically. But in any of these periods, something else interesting always intervenes. Towards the end of my pregnancy I became obsessed with baskets. I looked at YAM, the price seems to suit me and I like the product, but I don’t want to pay for shipping.

And just then the bucket was empty of paint (aqua acrylic, 3 kg). So it reminded me of a basket. And then a lightning-fast thought about the similarity of the color of the basket and the jute threads.

It took about one and a half skeins. Hook No. 4.

This is what it looks like inside. It seems worthy to me. The fabric was some kind of unsuitable for anything. And how she started playing.

And of course I couldn’t deny myself the roses, which were used to make fabric from the extra cuts from the insert.

I really like my basket. I thought I would do it and calm down. But I feel that I still want a real wicker basket. To put the balls in it and go to the park to knit.

I haven't gone to the park yet. But I already use it at home.

I also saved a bucket of paint and thread. I will knit more baskets until I realize that I don’t need a store-bought one.

Jute baskets made from plastic buckets. MK. Jute Tips

Works and advice from Lena Denisova.
Previously, I could not even think that jute comes in different sizes. Well, my husband brought me 2 skeins, and I knit them. And I went and bought it myself, and it turned out that the threads were different.

It turns out that the thickness and color of jute thread can be completely different!!! And also different footage!
This one is thicker. A smaller basket is knitted from it. I liked him the most.
But next time I bought 2 different types: two-thread and four-thread.
But they are exactly the same in thickness. But the thread is much thinner and softer.
In the photo below, on the left is a thin thread, on the right is a thick one.

Tip 1.
If you want faster results, then you need to choose a thicker thread (first photo). To do this, take hook No. 3.5.
If the process itself is important to you and you are not in a hurry, then you can buy thinner threads. And use hook number 2.5.

Tip 2.
Knitting with jute threads is not easy. This is no ordinary yarn. Therefore, let your basket be an additional, intermediate type of needlework. They tied it up a little and put it aside.

Tip 3.
On some skeins it is written that the thread should be obtained from the inside. It is better to follow this advice and knit from the inside of the ball. Then everything will go smoothly and the ends will not intertwine!

The meterage in the skeins is also different. Note. If the thickness of the thread is the same, as in my photo (two-thread and four-thread), then it is better, of course, to take more meters!
I also noticed that thicker threads have a more coherent, seemingly elongated, but pot-bellied, ball, which you don’t really remember. And the ball of thin ones looks more flattened and soft to the touch.
On the left the basket is knitted from thin threads, on the right - from thick ones. And the difference is clearly visible in the very first photo.

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A new type of jute baskets.

Hi all!
Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m the only one here in the spring suffering from nonsense and writing new messages that may not be interesting to anyone... But I will write further. You don’t even comment on anything, you just read it and forgot.

Now I knit a lot with colored threads and I don’t understand what kind of explosion of color happened to me. And another thing I realized was that I was wasting threads on all sorts of nonsense, instead of knitting something practical and worthwhile, such as hats and sweaters. But apparently, at one time I was so obsessed with something worthwhile that now I don’t even mind bothering with nonsense. So I went and bought some thread.

Now there is absolutely nowhere to store them and they lie just like that, on tables and are not hidden, which is why they began to stress me out a little.

There’s a basket right up against my side, which is so tired of waiting for me to start showing it. I'm all tired...

This is what I won’t put next to it, but I still don’t understand its size. She's not small either.
As usual, nothing will stop me from redoing what I don’t like. So I bandaged my hands until I realized that they suited me.

Just don’t think that I sat down and tied it up. Of course not. It was a long process over probably 4 months.

I wanted one with handles, but I don’t know where to get them, so I decided to knit it myself. I also don’t want to just sew it on without decoration, so I came up with mugs that are very, very tightly sewn to a jute base.

At first it was the same on the front and back, but I made up my mind and hung the brooch. But until the end I was afraid to overload the basket with decor.

This is the back side.

The bottom always undeservedly hides, but the work begins with it, and this is the most difficult stage for me, so I won’t wait for it to groan too and show it.

The shooting involved new old-style curtains, which my mother wanted to throw away, and I took them in, for which I regularly listen to dissatisfied words. Thanks to the banks, which also migrated from my mother in the hope of continuing to live. Thanks to the white thing with lace, which used to be the color of dark chestnut and stood in the village toilet. Thanks to the beads for not rolling, although the sofa does tilt. Thanks to Lideyka, that although she was eager to get to the place of deployment, I was defending myself and she was not able to pull off the entire entourage.