r/Tufting

It’s been a long road, almost a year to get all the equipment together, build my own modular frame, find a reliable wool supplier. While I was waiting for this little dream to come true, I watched countless tutorials and videos of you aliens who make everything look so easy and fast — damn you all!! 😄

It wasn’t easy, especially since I have two little kids 2 years old and almost 2 months for the second plus work, family commitments, my partner… finding time to dedicate to tufting was tough.

I often ended up tufting at 2 or 3 in the morning, when the house was completely quiet and the kids were asleep, only to head to work early the next day.

It was intense and beautiful, and honestly I can’t wait to make more. I think it came out decently, but there’s still so much to learn. The only downside was a local glue supplier who passed off vinyl (PVA) glue as tufting glue on me… disgraceful, honestly — I had some trouble getting the non-slip felt to stick because of it. Anyway, I’ll let you all take it from here.
Happy tufting everyone 🤟🏻

Custom Lily Wall Art hanging made for the love of my life as a birthday gift. Her name is the Spanish translation to the word "Lily" and I thought it'd be really cute to surprise her (:

My sister and I want to learn how to make a sunflower rug for my mom. This is literally the second time I used it. I did stop because it was on the corner of the frame and I started to hit the wood. How is the outline coming and any advice will be great!!!

Hi everyone. I have a tufting kit coming next week, along with a cozytuft frame. I am excited to begin this journey and have been consuming so much tufting content. One thing I can not figure out for the life of me is how people are able to make designs that have very fluffy parts and normal short parts. Are they using 2 different types of yarns for this effect? In the 2 photos I'm showing as examples are what I mean. I know this is probably not a beginner thing to try and I don't plan to try and create anything like these at first but it is making my head spin trying to figure out how you accomplish this effect because I have so many ideas in my head that this would be perfect for.

I think it's called shaggy rugs? I hope I'm conveying this correctly

Started my personal Christmas rug last November 2025 and I finally finished it! Literally been so busy with work. Since I don’t have time for it and it’s just taking up space I decided to quit this hobby and sell off all my stuff. I originally had two frames and now that I’m done with my rug I can break this large frame down as well! I obviously still have to shave/ trim the rug just clean it up overall and do the backing but I’m just excited for this chapter to be over. I had to buy so much yarn for this project, even a new tufting gun midway through it since mine broke ( shoot when that happened I debated if I should even finish it)

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My amazing fiance got me all the starting stuff to learn how to tuft about a week ago after watching tons of YouTube videos. Here are a few of my first rugs ive made. Any feed back would be awesome. Definitely know theres so much more to learn.

As title suggests, looking for everyone’s tried & true methods for patching..on the one other rug I tried carving on canvas in between colors, I did the same thing & I YouTubed a couple of videos; one showing trying to sew in excess fabric, & another showing cutting a patch of fabric & placing it over the hole & tufting thru it. I tried both on the previous rug but was unsuccessful so I said f it lol.
To be fair, I didn’t really have anything to clip the patch of fabric onto my canvas so that might have been the issue (suggestions for that are also welcomed!!). I carved the white on canvas & did SUCH a good job (for being new at least) that I told myself I was gonna do it for all the colors & this happened on my second one 😭

Sorry for the rambling, I just really don’t wanna ditch this rug!

It was hard to do the cut-out stuff but I am happy with him

Will this still work for tufting if I pull it tight? I have this fabric left over but it only stretches to three sides of the frame, not four. I'm curious if this will still work or not

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I just got a tufting gun last week and finished up my first projects! I did most of the smaller things just to practice and I feel like I learned a lot and things will come out even better next time!

My frame broke and my garage had a crazy leak so I haven’t made one in a while. Didn’t realize how bad I messed up the “roundness” of the circle until I did the waterfall edging but regardless I’m happy with the carving just have to get it a bit more even. I’d love to hear some opinions and feedback

Just finished this commission up and I came to the conclusion that simple rugs like this are always the best ones to practice your craving on.

Also have a new design coming up