Portland tufting classes can make anyone into a rug artist

PORTLAND: Ill-fitting knit hats, Christmas ornaments that leak glitter, lopsided clay bowls.

- Oregonian reporter, Lizzy Acker

Sometimes, when it comes to crafting, you have to settle for process over product. Appreciating the journey and not the end result. My house is strewn with things I enjoyed making that look, well, terrible. But sometimes, a craft comes along that even I can make look good. Let me introduce you to tufting.Tufting is, essentially, the process of making rugs. It’s gained popularity on social media because it’s quite satisfying to watch.

In a sense, tufting is coloring in with yarn and a gun. A tufting gun. First, cloth is stretched over a frame. Then, a design is drawn directly onto the cloth, usually projected and then traced. After that, the rug maker uses a tufting gun to fill in open spaces with colored yarn. The gun uses a needle to quickly push yarn through the cloth and then cut it off, creating a tuft of yarn. Hence...tufting.