{"id":525824,"date":"2010-04-13T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27523059.post-1550744437447110610"},"modified":"2010-04-13T09:22:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:22:35","slug":"from-rugs-to-runners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525824","title":{"rendered":"From rugs to runners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like the clean simplicity of Clara&#8217;s hack &#8211; a long runner from Ikea rugs (which reminds me that I need one for my entryway) and little patchwork accents completes the look. <\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-photo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S7xTus08dzI\/AAAAAAAAHsw\/KEuV0dEhvG4\/s1600\/DSC_0502-701974.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457328910238512946\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S7xTus08dzI\/AAAAAAAAHsw\/KEuV0dEhvG4\/s640\/DSC_0502-701974.jpg\" width=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nThe rugs in question is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/catalog\/products\/30052399\" >Signe<\/a>, which goes for only $2.99 each. Three of these would set you back less than a meal in town, and they lasts longer. Ok, now to the hack. The ends, right before the knots, were first soaked in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Podge-CS11218-8-Ounce-Glue-Fabric\/dp\/B001681Z8Q?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=ikeahacker-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" >Fabric Mod  Podge<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=ikeahacker-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001681Z8Q\" style=\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;\" width=\"1\" \/>. When dried, Clara ran them twice through the overcast machine. &#8220;The first,&#8221; she says, &#8220;to  serge the edge and to cut just enough to get all three rugs to fit in  the space. The second time, without the cutter, was to catch any stray  threads.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-photo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S7xTuDeSJbI\/AAAAAAAAHso\/cNxdaStuYfc\/s1600\/DSC_0465-700826.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"267\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457328899137611186\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S7xTuDeSJbI\/AAAAAAAAHso\/cNxdaStuYfc\/s400\/DSC_0465-700826.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"mobile-photo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S7xTuys2MFI\/AAAAAAAAHs4\/71XcE90pwWg\/s1600\/DSC_9666-703461.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"267\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457328911815159890\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S7xTuys2MFI\/AAAAAAAAHs4\/71XcE90pwWg\/s400\/DSC_9666-703461.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nSee Clara&#8217;s instructions for her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehomeinparadise.com\/2010\/03\/make-cheap-ikea-rug-into-fancy-runner.html\" >rugs to runner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/27523059-1550744437447110610?l=ikeahacker.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VgctO0y1nC8ecZH0Pt9LeExW8xo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VgctO0y1nC8ecZH0Pt9LeExW8xo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VgctO0y1nC8ecZH0Pt9LeExW8xo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VgctO0y1nC8ecZH0Pt9LeExW8xo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Ikeahacker?a=UtpASlcLvNM:GChkHpiQo-A:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Ikeahacker?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Ikeahacker?a=UtpASlcLvNM:GChkHpiQo-A:4cEx4HpKnUU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Ikeahacker?i=UtpASlcLvNM:GChkHpiQo-A:4cEx4HpKnUU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Ikeahacker\/~4\/UtpASlcLvNM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the clean simplicity of Clara&#8217;s hack &#8211; a long runner from Ikea rugs (which reminds me that I need one for my entryway) and little patchwork accents completes the look. The rugs in question is the Signe, which goes for only $2.99 each. Three of these would set you back less than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}