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Making rope from fabric

July 16, 2014by Christina
I was working on a project this week that I needed rope for.  But I didn’t want to drive all the way to the home improvement store just for one thing.  So, being impatient frugal, I raided what little I have left of a fabric stash, and made the rope out of some thrift store […]

I was working on a project this week that I needed rope for.  But I didn’t want to drive all the way to the home improvement store just for one thing.  So, being impatient frugal, I raided what little I have left of a fabric stash, and made the rope out of some thrift store lace.

If you don’t know how to make a rope, it’s very simple.  Tie your two strips together at one end, then twist each strip in the same direction.  After a couple twists, twist them both together in the opposite direction of the individual twists, like this:

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Tie a knot when you get to the end.  That’s all there is to it.

(And I didn’t notice until looking at the photo above that our door catch is not lined up with the knob.  Ugh, that’s going to drive me crazy now.)

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This would be really nice with some jersey knit (or old t-shirts), but that would have been to stretchy for what I needed these for.

As long as we can get it finished, I’ll show you what I made the rope for on Friday!

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  1. Leena

    I usually twist the whole strips of fabric or yarn first to only one direction, then place the other end which is on my hand next to the other and the yarn turn themselves and creates the rope.

    The rope looks really nice made from lace, fun texture.

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    • Christina

      That’s even easier, good idea.

  2. Marie

    Love what you are doing. What happened after you stripped the floors with citrus strip and then sanded? Any finish?

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    • Christina

      Thank you! I am trying to remember if I sanded or not, I don’t think I did. But we left them raw after thoroughly cleaning them. We loved the look and they held up great. It was such solid old wood.

    • Christina

      I did sand! 😀 I just went back and looked at the blog post (it was actually 7 years ago, so my memory wasn’t that great).

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