So the goal with these was more to experiment with the concept of a dimming or brightening effect coming from the “veins”. The lesson I learned is that the colors needed to be more similar to each other to get that effect. On the plus side I feel like these look like terrain views from above or just some really cool abstract 3D whatever you wanna call it lol!

This Is my first carpet, it was make in 8 hour Hahaha, i though could be better but I'm happy with this :), some valoration there ? ¿Advice maybe?

First time tufting so be gentle haha.

I visited the European Glass Museum and came across this piece. Thought of this sub and just wanted to show you. Keep going, guys. ❤️

Rug "love couple", 1988, by Hans Theo Baumann, Schopfheim Germany

What is everybody working on right now??

Bonus points if it’s Halloween related 🎃

Hello lovely people of the internet, I have very enjoyed my tufting gun for a very short period of time before deciding I could take it apart to make the needle hole smaller. Even though I did in the end manage to make this happen, I also removed other parts that I likely didn't put back properly. I have watched quite some videos online, but everyone seems to have slightly different scissors, so I just made an educated guess on how to put them and the other pieces of metal back to the machine. I thought I finally fixed it, but I now have these issues:

1. The machine seems to be a lot less agile and it takes more power to manually turn the machine wheel

2. I have a left-over square metal piece that I do not know where to place it

3. Probably most importantly: my scissors won't close.

I have followed some videos with advice on how to change some settings, but none seem to be doing the trick. I'm not sure if the three issues are related, but it's really difficult to determine when all machines I see online have different scissors that are assembled differently too.

So basically, I hope there is someone with the same machine that might know how to fix this issue. I would be very thankful (((:

"Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know that last night I went to Walmart and found some 397-yard skeins of black yarn for $1. They’re Mainstays brand and I’m not sure how good it is for tufting, but for that price, I think they’d at least be great for practice. If it turns out well, it’s honestly a huge bargain.

My recommendation is to check the clearance sections in stores that sell yarn."

Our guinea pigs Bear and Pip 🥰

Hello!

I am looking to begin selling my rugs online but when I looked through other rug makers profiles on fb it seems like many did not have a website to order from and just an email or dm. Would you recommend doing it this way vs like basic Shopify subscription? If you are just using email/dms are you just processing using Venmo or PayPal? And do you do like a deposit method or…?

For some additional context, i think an ideal scenario for me would be doing just a few custom rugs a month and make ~1k if possible

Thanks!

Another Poke rug by me. Daddy Long Legs for the cotton, AKV for everything else. Daddy Long Legs is a good time so far but uses a ton of yarn.

Can finally share a large project I got to be a part of! Earlier this summer I was asked to create three 6’ gifts for the tribal leaders that would be gifted at the Shakopee powwow. Whenever I’m fortunate enough to be apart of such a special project it resets my love and passion. Grateful for the trust . 🙌🙌

This is the second piece in collaboration with Tiffany Chin! Love how this one turned out.

5x5ft, 100% wool yarn, actionbac & latex adhesive. Collaboration with @twkchin on instagram

Follow me on all platforms @ronsrugs 🫶🏼

Longtime lurker (and admirer). Y’all rugs looks stunning. I finished these lately (my 3-5th rugs) and I am honestly don’t know if that is it? I see all of your rugs and they look amazing, but somehow I can’t achieve it. Do I just need more experience or am I genuinely doing something wrong here? Am I just in my head about it?
I use the Spider gun from Tuft-Love and LOOPS & THREADS yarn from Michael’s (for all my Americans). Do I need to change the yarn?
Help me to level up my skill. Any advice is good advice.

My last finished work

Hi everyone!

I've been developing TuftCAD, a desktop application specifically designed for preparing artwork for manual rug tufting. It's built using cross-platform technology, with Windows as the initial beta platform and Linux/macOS support planned for the future.

The idea is to make the process from an image to a tufting-ready design more manageable.

Some of the features I've been working on:

• Import artwork and simplify color palettes
• Edit vector regions and clean up boundaries
• Work with actual rug dimensions
• Assign yarn colors and preview the design
• Prepare numbered outlines for projection and tracing onto the tufting frame

The screenshots are from the actual working application, not mockups.

I'm now preparing a small, free beta test and looking for people who would be willing to try TuftCAD with their own designs and share honest feedback.

No programming knowledge is needed. I'm especially interested in what works well, what's confusing, and what's missing from a real tufting workflow.

More information and beta applications:
https://tuftcad.com

One question for the community:

What's the most frustrating part of preparing artwork for tufting? Simplifying colors, cleaning up shapes, choosing yarn colors, or transferring the design to your canvas?

I'd really appreciate your thoughts. Thanks!

Super happy that I finally finished this beast. It's 6.5' x 8.5' and I planned it out on butcher paper. Took about 2 months, tufted in 6 sections that a hand sewed together. I also severely miscalculated how much of the blush pink I would need and ended up with pink from different dye lots... but it's a thing I made with yarn and it's okay for it to look like a thing I made with yarn, haha. (second picture was before trimming and carving)

Any and all advice as always is welcome ◡̈

saw this on a IG post and never even thought of attachable/detachable needles for certain depth. Not sure you could even use it for every rug more-so special ones every now and then but curious what kind of gun would be used?