I’ve got a group of four local friends (including me) that we call our “craft coven.” We’ve been seeing lots of cool videos on social media lately of folks doing rug tufting, and it looks so fun!! When we realized there was a place right in town that did workshops on demand with all tools and materials provided, we signed right up! It took me two sessions to finish, but here’s my rug, and I’m SO pleased with how it turned out:
It’s about three feet in diameter, and the design is a drawing that my friend and fellow craft coven member drew for me. Here’s my workspace with the drawing and my initial yarn choices.
Three of us ended up going to the worshop together, where the staff helped us use a projector to shine the designs over the canvases and we traced the outlines.
Then we learned how to use the tufting guns and got to work!! (Darn, I have a cool video of me tufting but looks like I can’t post it here…)
Here are some progress photos. I think it took me maybe 10 hours total?
It was a VERY hot day and the gun was surprisingly tiring to use!
Here’s where I left off at the end of the first day:
When we went back a second time, we had to rotate the canvas a few times to
make it possible to finish the edge parts without the frame getting in the way:
But I eventually finished! Here’s the back side (the side you actually tuft from):
That was where I left it, and then the shop did the finishing bits: cutting it out, trimming uneven bits of yarn from the front, and glueing the back so that all the yarn doesn’t just pull out.
It was a ton of work but very fun and I LOVE my new octopus rug! I don’t want to use it as an actual rug because I’m not sure how much walking and pet attention it could actually live through, so I’ll be hanging it up on the wall once I figure out how best to do that.
(Although I did just stand on it in bare feet just now as I set it up for this final photo and oh my it feels divine…but I shall resist!)
Hot diggity dog! Your delightful craft is one of this week’s Featured Projects 
you rock 