Learn how to make a mat or rug for your house with these free sewing patterns!
Whether you are looking for a sewing pattern or tutorial to make a cozy rug for a bedroom or looking for a practical dirt catcher for the hallway, you'll find some great free sewing projects here to help you get started. These projects are ideal for people who are just starting our as well as those with more sewing experience. You will find that some of these tutorials use recycled fabric and these are great stash busters and will eat up your recycling pile! We have some old rag rugs here that started life in my grandmother's house - they are certainly hard wearing. However if you are looking for something a little different then the other projects here, such as the colored rug project, are certainly perfect for putting on your to-do list.
Use lots of strips of colored felt to make a bright rug for the house or as a play rug for outside. The base of this rug is an interlocking play mat and…
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Added 17 October, 2012
This is an easy technique for making a good looking and soft rag rug that can use scrap fabric
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Added 5 September, 2012
This is a bath mat tutorial made using charm squares and towelling
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Added 25 July, 2012
Kitchen mat that is cotton on top and absorbent towel on the bottom - cheap, easy and fun to make
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Added 19 January, 2012
Make a baby mat
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Added 14 April, 2011
Practical furniture protector
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Added 22 July, 2010
Simple idea for customizing a shop bought bath mat
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Added 21 July, 2010
A cheery hearts-and-circle patterned rug.
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Added 10 January, 2010
Make a rug out of fabric scraps
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Added 9 January, 2010
Versatile mat
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Added 7 August, 2007