Country Threads – a unique quilt shop in Iowa

Around 1980 we learned rug weaving from an elderly lady in the neighborhood who did rug weaving, actually called “twining”, on an old window frame.  We have engineered a frame for the rug weaving in several different sizes and developed a set of easy to follow instructions in our book Rugs From Rags. The rug weaving is done with strips of new or old fabric yardage, old clothing, linens or denim jeans. These nearly indestructible rugs take only about 10-12 hours to complete. Rugs can be laced together for a larger floor covering with a country look showing off your beautiful rug weaving.

In our shopping cart you’ll find the Rugs From Rags book and three different sizes of rug frames for making throw rugs, place mats and table runners.  Instructions for building the frames are also in the book if you’d rather build your own.  We also offer a supplemental DVD which shows Mary rug weaving and giving extra hints and tips to complete your rug.

Rug weaving is a great opportunity to use up those fabrics in your stash that you’re not interested in using in your current quilt patterns. When you use up that fabric, you can buy new! Rugs from Rags has become our most popular book and is sold to Girl Scout troops, 4-H’ers, grandmas who want to plan a fun activity with their visiting grandchildren, home economics classes and quilters and sewers all over the world who want to put their old fabric to work in rug weaving for their home.