Area rugs, whether small or large, are not cheap so these rag rug projects are also great money savers on top of being better for the environment than buying something new.
This is probably the easiest and simplest ways to make your first rag rug. It involves braiding strips of t-shirt (or other fabric and inter weaving your rug as you braid to shape your rug.
This one is a very different method. It involves first making scrap fabric twine (she’s got the instructions for you don’t worry!) and then the zig zag setting on your sewing machine.
This finger crochet rag rug method is brilliant because it is tool free – you don’t even need a crochet hook to do it! Sustain my Craft Habit has some great links to step by step instructions for both the finger crochet technique.