How to make a mat of plaits
Materials and tools.
Scissors are sharp. (If there are a roller knife and mat – will save time and nerves).
Threads are strong – I take with a dolphin, a needle, a thimble.
Any junk, it is desirable, more Jersey – ladies’ and children’s tights, an old favorite T-shirt (ki), which the hand does not rise to throw away – beloved! And only in the beds behind the high fence you can … Smash! Cracked completely! It is impossible and behind a fence!
You can use not too thick sweaters, as well as shirts, trousers (jeans do not recommend), unnecessary fabrics. Etc.
I assure you if you are enthusiastic about this business, and you have not accumulated tights, you will not have enough of your own – shake your girlfriends!
We cut T-shirts and fabrics into strips.
Women’s tights in half, regardless of the density, cut the elastic and sock. Well, if the tights are very thick, woolen, for example, or children’s – dense, bright, then from one “pant leg” two strips. T-shirts cut into strips about 6-8 cm wide. If the fabric is thick – then thinner.
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Next, I, for speeding up the process, stitching on a machine strip length of one and a half to two meters, all very roughly, you know! I leave the length of the strip, which I can easily weave and wind it in the hands, fix it, or slip the loop under the last winding – in the photo it can be seen, it is possible with an English pin.
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Next, we take three bands, it’s better if at least two of them are knitted. In order not to stick out the sections and thread four times, cut inwards.
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We fix with the needle thread the beginning of the spit and the plait, the plait … When the strip ends, here we already sew the next thread with a needle thread.
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If you need to distract yourself, go at last !!! Prepare dinner for the family, I take it with a regular pin so that the braid does not disintegrate.
 Rugs can be made round and oval. You can and other forms if you want.
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Well, the last technological moment that I developed for myself. I’m right-handed, so when I start sewing braids – just over the edge, and quite thickly – the hard mat turns out – I put the scythe counter-clockwise. Tried the opposite, but there is more risk to draw and get a bubble in the middle of the carpet – it will be difficult to “trample” then. And with such a stacking risk is much less to draw, so if there is a bubble, then everything will settle down during operation.
Left-handed, probably, it is necessary to do the opposite. Try it!
That’s what can happen if you have enough patience …
  courtesy: livemaster