I Tried Rug Tufting For The First Time

HELLO FRIENDS!! As a chronic craft content consumer, I've always wanted to try tufting my own custom rug - so we headed to Freestyle Ceramics & Tufting in Chicago to attempt to conquer the art of rug tufting!! I wept, I cried, my arm died - but at the end, I think I finally got the hang of it - and ended up with a cute midnight sky blob design. What do you guys think of our rug tufting creation? And what craft should we try out next??

Big thank you to Erni and the rest of the crew over at Freestyle Ceramics & Tufting in Chicago! You can check them out on Instagram here:   / freestyle_ceramics_tufting  

Check out the rug tufting artists we used in the thumbnail here!
Koi Fish Rugs:   / rugsband  
Leaf Rugs:   / lm.rugs  

And you can check out some of our SF/Chicago mini-vlogs here:
Sleeping in a Pinecone Treehouse Airbnb:    • We Stayed Overnight In A Pinecone Air...  
Ancient Roman Bathhouse (in Chicago):    • We Went To An Ancient Roman Bathhouse...  

Also, not an affiliate link - but my jacket is from https://dragondenim.com/!

This video is NOT sponsored!!

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Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams
Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas
Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews
Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons
Editor: Andrew Lainhart
Editor: Mandy Padgett
Editor: Hailey Cox
Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
2:05 Off To The Tufting Studio
3:19 A Rug Tufting Tutorial
7:19 Our Rug Design & Choosing Our Yarn
9:37 Time To Tuft
12:03 Adding Shadow Details
13:26 Some Clouds & Some Stars
15:54 Conquering ~The Bat~
17:03 The Hardest Part
18:41 Outlining Everything
19:54 Filling In The Sky
21:19 Cutting, Gluing, and Shaving
23:25 Our Finished Rug!

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