The Tufting gun is a great tool to create custom hand-tufted rugs really quickly and easily. If you are planning to purchase one or if you have one for a while and looking for different options to use it I will share 9 ideas that you can create.

It is possible to get creative and use our practical thinking skills in order to use the tufting gun to create other great objects other than simply making rugs. You can create a great number of different things, such as:

• Hand-Tufted Floor Carpet
• Wall Hanging Carpet
• Tufted Mirror
• Tufted Pillow
• Hand-Tufted Health Toys
• Fluffy Coasters
• Hand-Tufted Headboard Rug
• Baskets For Storage
• Hand-Tufted Purse And Cloth Bag

All of them are great opportunities to show your creativity and craft skills. Some of them are easier or harder than others but even if you are a complete beginner all of them are doable. It is possible to find great step-by-step tutorials for each of the different ideas, you can check our step-by-step guides here.

Hand-Tufted Floor Carpet

Of course, it would not be good to skip the main character of the ”Tufting Art”. There is the possibility to create unlimited different styles of rugs for various purposes. It is a great way to add an extra touch to your living area.

If you have any experience with this, producing other ideas is going to be way easier. In case you are a beginner you can check 7 Tools You Need To Start Tufting for necessary tools or How-To guides to learn techniques and tips for tufting a custom rug.

Wall Hanging Carpet

For a great number of people, the hand-tufted custom Wall Hanging rugs are definitely the favorite way to exhibit their art piece. The initial creation process is almost exactly the same with the floor rugs, you need to follow more or less the same tufting steps with the same necessary tools. However, the finishing process can have a different approach from the floor carpets.

Of course, it is possible to leave it simple and empty without any extra backing material but the lifetime would be longer with proper backing and it would look even better with some additions. You can check 5 Finishing Techniques For Tufted Rugs to learn other alternatives than leaving it without any backing fabric.

Tufted Mirror

If you would like to add an extra touch and functionality to your wall hanging rug, creating a decorative Tufted Mirror design with the help of your hand-tufted rug can be a good alternative for you.

You should first pick a mirror size for you because it would directly affect the design of the rug piece. It is possible to find in various different shapes and sizes, you can check the available options and the prices here.

After the selection of the specific mirror piece, you can start designing your custom decorative wall mirror. You can check DIY Custom Rug Design to learn more about the design process for tufted rugs. It is important to bear in mind the opening for the mirror part, if the opening left for the mirror is very limited it can influence negatively the actual purpose of the Tufted Mirror.

Tufted Pillow

Another popular way to show your artwork is to put it on your couch, or bed as a pillow. They can easily add an extra aesthetic look to your living space or bedroom. Why not design and tuft your own pillow? It doesn’t require a lot of extra work, instead of finishing the tufted rug piece with the ”traditional” backing approach, you follow some other method.

After the gluing process, it only needs filling and sewing the edges as the different steps. As a filler material, it is possible to purchase ready pillow inserts to be able to fill it. You can check different options and prices here.

You need to follow these simple steps in order to create a hand-tufted pillow:

• Design the front faces of the pillow
• Tuft it carefully
• Glue the backside
• Sew the pillowcase in order to be able to fill it
• Place the pillow inside.

Here is a highly detailed, great tutorial for pillow making with the Tufting Gun.

Hand-Tufted Health Toys

In the same way that you did pillows, you can do funny and cute-looking toys for your loving ones even for your furry friends! Since the yarn that we use mostly is cotton or wool and has no bad effects as plastic-based toys. It is way healthier than having some plastic toys instead of handmade tufted toys.

Basically, what you should do is tuft both sides of the toy; one front and backside. Don’t forget to mirror them! After having two sides of the toy, just sew them to each other with the help of a needle. And stuff your toy with filler material like cotton or other synthetic materials. You can check examples of the filler materials here.

Fluffy Coasters

Coasters are mini rugs that you can use under your mugs. You can design and create funny and useful coasters on your office desk, coffee table, and many others. Creating some of these is way faster and easier than tufting a proper size rug but it contains exactly the same steps on a smaller scale. You should keep in my the total size of the coaster when you are working on the design, if it includes a lot of tiny details it can be hard to work on these details with the tufting gun. In that case, I can recommend using punching needles, especially only for the small details!

Hand-Tufted Headboard Rug

If you are trying to decore your bedroom space with a more minimalistic and cozy style you can definitely try hand-tufted headboard rugs instead of other huge, occupant traditional headboards.

When you look closely it is not too far from a wall-hanging rug but it is more about how you display and interact with it. The dimensions of your bed should be considered during the design process.

It is possible to change the atmosphere of the room with a simple touch like this and it would be highly functional while you rest against its fluffy surface. In case you are considering leaning against it regularly you should keep in mind that while you are choosing the material of the rug. The headboard rugs made with acrylic yarn can be deformed more easily compared to wool. You can check here to learn more about yarn types and best use cases.

In case you have a smaller size frame, creating two separate pieces of hand-tufted rugs and placing them next to each other can be an option or you can simply try to sew them together before the backing process. So they would look like they are one uniform piece.

Basket

It is time to create a storage space for your tufting materials by tufting them. You can create a cozy-looking basket with your existing tufting and punching skills just with another approach. It is more common to see these kinds of more detailed objects made by punch needle instead of tufting but in theory, both of them have the same concept.

It requires a longer sewing step compared to other alternatives that we discussed but you can easily make it even if you don’t have too much experience with it.

The approach for the basket is similar to the pillow but it requires a bit more accuracy because of the geometry of the shapes.

You can check this step-by-step tutorial from stretch about how to create your basket.

Hand-Tufted Purse and Cloth Bag

You can even tuft a Purse to become a fashion icon among your friends. The approach for the purse is more similar to the basket however it is definitely necessary to spend more time on the design process because of the complex opening shape. It can be different depending on your design but in general, it is easy to say it is going to be more complicated because of the moveable parts.

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