(upbeat music) - Hello friends, and
welcome to another video. This week, I'm gonna be trying rug tufting for the first time. And, yes, I am armed and dangerous. (machine whirring)
(Safiya chuckles) Now, as some of you guys may know, I love me a satisfying craft video. From making soap from
scratch, to acrylic pour art, molten metal casting,
hyperrealistic candle making, and whatever this is, not only could I watch
this (beep) for hours, but when I fall down a visual ASMR, satisfying
craft rabbit hole, I viscerally want it. I want to do it, feel it, be it, become the swirled soap
or the cube of jelly wax or the molten aluminum sliding into an aquarium full of Orbeez. And I have tried my hand
at a few of these crafts with varying levels of success, but certainly a fair
amount of satisfaction. It looks like an amateur
Yogurtland experiment, but it's not a fail. And for a while now, I've been seeing these
videos about rug tufting, where people will
seemingly materialize a rug out of thin air by running a tufting
gun loaded up with yarn ever so swiftly along a piece of canvas. And not only are these
videos incredibly satisfying, I love seeing the image being
slowly built line by line until it's fully complete, I also think the custom
rugs that people make are pretty awesome. Like, I've only ever had boring square or rectangular rugs in my life. But you can make pretty much anything, from psychedelic abstract
art, to giant tomatoes, to scary monsters, to a dripping declaration
that simply says, "horny." Me too, friend, me too. And a few months ago, after getting off our 52-hour
train ride across the country, we ended up in my hometown of Chicago, where there just so happened to be a custom rug tufting studio where not only did they already have everything you would need
to do some rug tufting, but they were willing to let
me take a stab, literally. So I figured even if we're
a couple of years late to the trend, why not finally try my hand
at making a custom rug myself? Will I be able to make
anything cute at all and achieve those
satisfying tufting visuals or will this just end up
being a big pile of bonerkill? I guess we'll find out. So after hopping off our
52-hour Amtrak train in Chicago, we did hit up a few spots, like this Ancient
Roman-inspired bathhouse. - [Tyler] Flo-tarium. Flo-Rida. - [Safiya] Yeah, I think
that's what they mean. It's the Florida man pool. - [Tyler] Oh. - [Safiya] And this crazy high-end "The Menu" style restaurant. Still don't know what this is. - [Tyler] This has just been
ominously left at our table. - [Safiya] And after getting our ice cream sundaes launched at us. (Safiya laughs) - [Tyler] Oh! - How do I eat it?
- I don't know. - [Safiya] We were ready to head to Freestyle Ceramics
& Tufting in Bridgeport on the South Side where we met up with Erni,
studio owner and master tufter, who was going to be teaching me the ropes, or, rather, the yarn. Freestyle Ceramics & Tufting
does have, as the name implies, both a paint-your-own-pottery studio and a rug tufting workshop. Someone tufted a booty. Wow, risque. - Tush tufting?
(Safiya laughs) - And it turns out Erni actually added the rug tufting portion of the studio after watching videos of
people tufting online. So, kindred spirit. And for someone with absolutely no tufting
experience like myself, my first step, besides putting my hair up. So it's not in the rug. We don't make a rug out of my own hair. - Yes. - [Safiya] Was gonna be to get my hands on an actual tufting gun. - Gives you the safety, the
technique, everything like that. - Little tutorial. Now, from what I've seen online, these tufting guns basically
just seem like magic. - Tap, tap, tap, tap. We're gonna do it really slow, okay? For our first time like that. - [Safiya] But after some investigation, it seems the way these things work is that they have two pistons. One that has a threaded
needle at the end of it, which will pierce through
the fabric you are tufting and leave a loop of yarn behind, and another piston, which has
a pair of scissors on the end, which will follow behind
the threaded needle and cut the loop of yarn open to create that nice shaggy effect. So it's not magic. It's just scissors. And after giving me a quick demo, Erni handed over the tufter
so I could give it a go. - Some people like to be
really, really careful, like, do it really slow. That is okay. And some people like,
"Oh, I feel comfortable. I can fly," you know? Exactly.
- Yeah, Rambo. (Safiya mimics gun firing)
- Rambo. - [Saifya] And I can tell you
one thing, Rambo, I am not. (machine whirring)
- Okay. - [Safiya] Now, a couple of quick things I learned right off the bat. First off, you have to make
sure to push the head of the gun into the canvas, otherwise the yarn won't
go all the way through and the tufts won't hold. - [Erni] But when you tap,
the gun kind of bounce back. - So you have to push more.
- So make sure the entire time, you gotta push in. Otherwise this did not really go in. - [Safiya] And you also have to make sure to keep your elbow upright to keep the gun
perpendicular to the canvas. - Okay, your gun's not
very straight like this. - [Safiya] Oh, got it. There we go. - [Erni] Exactly. - [Safiya] So even if you
are spraying yarn like Rambo, you cannot assume a, like, classic Rambo
power stance like this. Well, I don't know anything
about Rambo actually. - That's how it works.
- I just know that one BLACKPINK song. - [Tyler] (mimics gun firing) Rambo. - [Safiya] Yeah (laughs). Besides that, one other thing to remember is that you have to rotate
the head of the tufter in order to change direction. - So you wanna turn to
the right, push and turn. You gotta turn to the right like this. - [Safiya] You can't just
randomly pull the gun to one side without changing the direction of the head or you'll just slash your canvas. - Push to the left.
- Push in. - Mm-hmm, turn to the left.
- Turn the gun, and go. And contrary to dance floor rules, you do not want to cut the rug. Also, you never wanna tuft upside down. So if you wanna tuft an object
like a circle, for example, you wanna start at the bottom, tuft all the way up to the topmost point, then stop, go back to the bottom, and tuft the other side. And all of this seemed
pretty straightforward and yet I was not doing so great, guys. - [Erni] So push in. Tap, tap, tap. You're going a little too fast. - Mm, I'm going too fast.
- Yeah. - [Safiya] Unlike with some of the other satisfying crafts I've tried, I didn't have any applicable
skills in this arena. Can you follow a line? I don't know. I don't know. Okay. Like, molten lipstick and molten chocolate have similar properties. Whipped soap and whipped
frosting, not so different. - Very good.
- A little bit better. A little bit better, okay.
- All right. All right.
- That sounded good. - [Safiya] But I have
absolutely no experience with weaving, crocheting,
needlepointing, or firearms. Wow, this is kind of hard. So I was shooting blind. And even though Tyler and Erni
were trying to stay positive, my test stars were
looking very asymmetric. - [Erni] Much better already. Look. - Yeah, I mean-
- You're making progress. - [Tyler] That's a star. That's a star. - [Safiya] Potentially
even disturbing at times. What about this little arm here? - [Tyler] We don't talk about that arm. - [Erni] It's not you. It's me and my drawing. - Thank you for falling on
your sword for me, yeah. - My drawing's not good. - [Safiya] And my test
circle was truly just a lump. A little lovely lady lump. - [Tyler] That's a lady
lump right there, yeah. - [Erni] I mean, I think
it's a little bit better than the star. What do you think? - [Safiya] The only saving grace for me was that even though it
seemed very difficult to get any of the test shapes
to look good from the back, the front wasn't so bad. - Oh!
- Perfectly fine, look. - [Safiya] Yeah, it looks cute. - [Erni] Yeah, see, it's
very forgiving on this side. Yes.
- Oh, it's so soft. - [Erni] Yes, exactly. - I wouldn't say it
looked good from up here. All right, I feel maybe a
little bit more confident. But it was a bit harder to
see how bad it truly was. This looks like the
scrawlings of a mad woman. - [Tyler] Zodiac Saf. (Safiya laughs) - [Safiya] So with expectations
now at an all-time low, the tutorial round was over. - [Tyler] Looks like she's
trying to say something to us. - It's like she's trying
to tuft something. I know it. And it was time to try
and make an actual rug. Now, as we said before, with rug tufting, you can pretty much
tuft anything you want. And though I was tempted to
tuft an "also horny" rug, Erni let us know that words, and especially cursive words, are some of the hardest things to do. And we all saw what just
went down at the test wall. So we decided to keep our
expectations on my ability low and go for something that
would be simple enough for my skill level, but still on brand. I'm intimidated.
- You're intimidated? - Yeah, I'm a little intimidated. I want to do this. I'm just nervous about it. So our graphic designer
Dayana whipped up a very cute what I would call night sky blob. Yay. Okay, that's our image. That Erni projected onto a piece of canvas for me to trace out as
a pattern to follow. - [Tyler] You're relocating down there? - (laughs) Don't judge my methods. With some simple elements inside like a moon and some clouds and then a couple of items
with a few spicy details to make the design a
little more intermediate, specifically our bat and the contours of our bat's little head. And even though it is
a pretty simple design, I still think it's cute
and I hope you do too. Wow, look at that cloud that Erni definitely didn't help me draw. (all laugh) And once our design was all traced out, it was time to pick out
our yarn we were gonna use. The yarn. Hello, yarn. Good morning, yarn. Now, I'd been admiring this
rainbow yarn wall in the back pretty much the entire time. - [Erni] Yeah, too much
to choose from, right? (Safiya and Erni laugh) - Just silence, just looking. As it seemed like Erni had
basically every color of yarn that you could imagine, kind of like the Vogue
shoe closet but for yarn. - [Tyler] Let's go to Mood. - [Safiya] Let's go to Mood. And I thoroughly enjoyed this part. - I think it's too bright.
- Too bright. - [Tyler] Yeah, it's too bright. - [Safiya] Get outta here. In fact, if Erni is looking for someone to just tend the yarn and help
people pick out yarn colors. Ha ha ha. This is fun. I would happily volunteer. And after some careful consideration. Oh, that's not bad. It's a bit lighter, but it has, like, some
purple elements in it. We ended up grabbing a deep
blue for the night sky, a warm yellow for the twinkling stars. - [Tyler] This one looks more
like a "Starry Night" yellow. - A lilac color for the bat, a periwinkle for the clouds, and a white and pink for
the moon and its shadow. Ooh, that could be good. - The contrast's actually
bigger for this one. - [Safiya] A pretty good
color palette, in my opinion. - I like it.
- I think could be a cute rug. - [Tyler] I think it's
definitely gonna be a cute rug. - [Safiya] But after
stalling at the yarn wall, it was time to try and tuft this thing. And Erni explained that
the best strategy here would be to tuft to
each individual element of the design first, and then do the background last to make sure that the elements were as clear and defined as possible and didn't get crowded out, starting with the moon since it was the largest
and simplest shape. - [Erni] And then we can
do the cloud, the star, and then we save the bat. - Save the bat for last.
- Yeah, for last. - [Safiya] But even though it was supposed to be the easiest, that didn't mean I still
couldn't mess it up. Ah! All right. - [Erni] Okay, I'm going
to turn this on for you and then you turn the
gun to that direction and then tap, tap, tap. - [Safiya] And with everyone
holding their breath, I went for my first stroke, and somehow from the depths of my soul. - [Tyler] Hell yeah, dude. - [Safiya] Pulled out a
decently even, nicely curved, continuously tufted line for
the outer rim of our moon. - [Erni] Oh, very good. Yay. Perfect. - [Tyler] That's perfect? - Should I repeat that? That is perfect. (Erni and Safiya laugh) - And we all breathed a
collective sigh of relief. No, I don't know if I'll ever be able to recreate that moment. - [Tyler] Why don't we call it quits? - Yeah.
(Erni laughs) I might have just peaked.
- So let me finish remaining. - [Tyler] The rest of the video is just Erni's face deepfaked onto yours. - [Erni] I have to paint
in the same nail polish and then we do it. - [Safiya] I think after the tutorial, even I was thinking we may not end up with a finished rug at all, but here was a glimmer of hope and dare I say I was
building some momentum. Although, it didn't hurt that I had both Tyler and Erni watching my every move like a hawk. - [Tyler] Keep that pressure up. Back hand perpendicular. Don't tilt. - [Safiya] So I don't know
if I can take all the credit. I like how you're like my coach. - [Tyler] Well, I'm, like,
looking right at your hands. - [Safiya] And after three more lines to finish the outline of the moon. Bada-bing. It's my little pet. It's soft already. It was time to fill in the moon by basically tufting long vertical strokes in the inside of it. - [Tyler] Keep that parallel. - Yeah, you can't go to the other side. I need you over here.
- Okay. (Safiya and Tyler laugh) - [Safiya] And I feel like
we were kind of getting into a rhythm, the tufting gun and I. I'll try and go a little tighter maybe. Oh, turn on. I literally forget every time. I'm just like ready to go. - [Tyler] But that's good safety protocol. - [Safiya] We started off as foes and now we were more like friend adjacent. You know what, Ty, what the
tufting gun would be good for? - [Tyler] What? - Remember that, like,
electronics symphony, like "Toxic" by Britney Spears played on electric toothbrushes? - [Tyler] Oh, it'd be great for that. - [Safiya] It would be
so good at that, right? - [Tyler] It does have a
little bit of a melody to it. - [Safiya] It does. (laughs) But before we could send the tufting gun to the Device Orchestra, (device orchestra music) we still had a lot more rug left to tuft. Woo, all right. What do we think? - Very nice.
- Yeah? - [Erni] Yes, you're done with the moon. - Done.
- Yeah! - Done with the moon. Oh, it looks pretty good. - [Tyler] Yeah, right? - [Safiya] It looks shaggy, fuzzy. - Oh, it feels so nice.
- Yeah, baby. - [Tyler] Oh, Cosmo's gonna love this. - Oh my God. Are you kidding? Cosmo will just undo all of my work. - [Tyler] That is true. - One of Cosmo's signature moves is to detuft rugs, actually. (Erni laughs) So next up, in order of
increasing difficulty, we had to add the purple
shadow to our moon, which was kind of intimidating because I had to match the curve of the moon that I had just made. Oh, nope. Mm, yep. And since it was kind of a skinny element, rather than filling it in with straight up and down vertical lines. - [Erni] I would recommend
to curve your gun to fill in like this. - Let's see if we can do that.
- Yeah! (laughs) - [Safiya] Let's see if we can do that. So I attempted a few
curvaceous banana hammocks to fill in our shadow. And even though I had kind of
a rogue tufting moment here where one of my tufts fell out, I learned that some
mistakes are easily fixed by a little detour of stitches. - Let me see this side.
- This little maneuver. - No, it's good. This side looks good. - Little sneaky sneak. So I'm gonna continue to
claim I was doing well so far. It kind of looks like a little, like, wig. - [Tyler] It looks a little
bit like a mohawk, yeah. - [Safiya] Yeah, like a mohawk. A moon-hawk. - [Tyler] Yeah, or like a unicorn. - [Safiya] And we also decided to double down on our moon-hawk by adding on a little moon goatee. - Soul patch.
- A soul patch, yeah. And then we were ready to
move on to our two clouds, one of which was high enough on the canvas so that I had to stand and tuft, which it turns out I'm not very good at. I'm really bad when I'm standing. - [Tyler] You are bad
when you're standing. - [Safiya] It's just something about it. Like, I can't stand and think. - [Tyler] Can't stand and tuft. You can't stand and think, actually. - [Safiya] (laughs) I don't
have enough blood in my brain. I think it might be
something about the angle or the visibility. I guess I'm just not
that good at standing. How do you feel about that?
- All right. Very good. - [Safiya] Oh, I was holding
my breath the whole time. - Yeah.
- Were you? - [Tyler] Yeah, I was
clenching my butt, yeah. (Safiya laughs) - But after filling in cloud number one (Safiya laughs) and successfully humping cloud number two. Coming around the mountain. All right, now I'm starting
back in the valley, returning to the hump. - [Tyler] Return to hump. - [Safiya] Everything
was looking pretty good. Boom.
- Beautiful. - Clouds. And we were ready to move
on to our three stars. This is the exact kind of spot where I could just ruin it completely. - [Tyler] Don't say that. - [Safiya] It is though. Ah, some foreshadowing. Now, because our stars
were more like twinkles, they were made up of four curves that did have to be kind of identical. Do I take it out? Turn it back? Let's go, let's go. - Let's go.
- Let's go. And I did have a bit of a hard
time replicating the curves from one side to the next, so they ended up looking a bit wonky. The head is a little
thicker than the bottom. - Don't worry about that.
- Okay. (laughs) And I found that filling in our stars was also pretty difficult since they were so small. Is that okay?
- That's okay. - Yeah, I'm getting a little messy over here. But after attempting
to make our first star as cute as possible using almost like the
same kind of technique you would use to try
and fix uneven eyeliner. Should we add like a
little more here or no? Is that not possible?
- To balance a little bit? - Yeah.
- If you wanted to. Yeah, we can add a little bit more here. - [Safiya] A little more over here and then a little more over there. Yeah, I think that looks
a little bit better. I moved on to the other two stars to see if I could do any better. (laughs) It's a little crazy back here. How does it look?
- It doesn't matter. It looks good on the other side. - (laughs) And though there may have been incremental improvements, it still wasn't great. So party in the back,
business in the front? Business in the front, party in the back? - [Erni] Yeah. - Party in the front, awful in the back? This could also have been
like an endurance problem. I actually think that
the mullet principle, like, heavily applies to rug tufting. (Tyler laughs) Because after a few hours
of working on our rug, I was certainly feeling the
burn in my hands and arms. So I regret to say that the stars did leave
something to be desired. The second star looks good. The third star looks
like a merkin. (laughs) But merkin or not, it was time to move on to
our hardest element: the bat. Now, we'd been dreading
the bat the entire time because not only was it a complex shape, but it was also symmetrical and small. Here goes nothing. Oh!
- No, it's okay. - [Safiya] And even though the bat shape had lots of peaks and valleys, Erni suggested that we tuft it in just a few continuous strokes. - [Tyler] Get that curve. Here you go. Discard that stool. You don't need a stool. - [Safiya] Get outta here, stool. Like with the bottom of the wing, which was absolutely
terrifying, but went okay. - Very good.
(Safiya sighs) - What do we think? - See?
- That's not bad at all. - [Safiya] Unfortunately,
I learned as I went, so my second wing was better, resulting in the two wings being kind of different looking. - All right!
- Ooh, that's a wing. - Yeah, you think?
- That's Morbin Time. - [Safiya] And then for
the top of the wings, we went for like a swoop and a swoop, which I then had to attempt and mirror on the other side as well. - Same thing. Finish this side. Let's talk about the head later, but yeah. - We'll talk about the head later. - Yeah, let's finish that part. - We'll worry about the head later. - [Tyler] That's a whole five
minutes away right now, okay? - [Erni] Exactly. - [Tyler] That might never even happen. A comet might hit us. So don't worry about it. - [Safiya] But after
finishing off the wings, there was no way around it. It was time to approach the head. Now, originally our bat head was made up of quite a few lines
and two very tiny ears. But given the size of the canvas and the fact that my aim was
still a work in progress, Erni helped us slightly alter the design to be more like three concave curves. - [Erni] Should it be like this instead? - Yeah.
- Right? - And thank God we altered it because I could barely do this. That was just a straight line. I need more curve.
- Yeah, get more action there. - [Safiya] The small design meant I was kind of like shooting
blind into the shag like a bat in a cave. Like that?
- All right. Yes, I think that's better
definition for sure. - [Safiya] And I actually did make a few tufting mistakes here. What does that look
like on the other side? - Ooh.
- A little funky? Are we missing one stitch at the end? - [Erni] It looks like it. - [Safiya] And though you can
kind of pull out a few tufts and try a stroke again, you can't really do that more
than once in any given area. - [Erni] One more. Okay. Ugh. - [Safiya] Or you will strip your canvas kind of like how you can strip a screw. - Can I go in?
- Yes. - All right.
(Erni and Safiya laugh) - [Safiya] So Erni may or may
not have given me a pinch tuft to finish off little batty's head. - [Tyler] Look at that. Look at that. - [Safiya] That definitely
looks like a bat. - [Tyler] Look at that.
That looks like a bat. - [Safiya] That looks like a bat. And even though he looked a
little fluffy from the front, we were ready to fill him in. What do you think, Ty?
- Looking great. - Shagadelic?
- Shagadelic. - (laughs) It could easily be
un-shagadelic very quickly. And with that, we finally
had all our elements tufted. - [Erni] I think yours is good. - Yeah!
- That's good. - Yeah!
- Wow. - Yeah, it looks okay?
- Yes. - Are you surprised?
- No, I'm not. Why would I be surprised? That's expected, right?
- You sound a little surprised. And we were ready to
implement our night sky. - [Tyler] It's a nice bushy bat. - (laughs) A bushy bat?
- No, it is. - [Safiya] So on the road
to finishing our rug, we then had to outline the rug itself. So our actual night sky blob shape. - [Tyler] It looks kinda
like a giant fried egg. - [Safiya] It is giving,
it is giving egg, yeah. And then we also had to
outline all of our elements in our background yarn color, which is meant to help define the shape of all of the different
elements in your rug and also make sure that the
yarn inside those elements is nice and densely packed. Ready? Here goes nothing. - [Tyler] All right, stay frosty here. - [Safiya] That did mean
I had to basically retuft all of the same shapes of
everything I had just tufted, which wasn't easy, especially with our bat and my sworn enemy, our
bat's head and ears. - Last part.
- Here we go. But even though it took me a while, I do think it helped add some
definition to our little guy. Like that, question mark?
- Let me see. - [Safiya] Even if he
had a wonky ear or two. - [Tyler] Kind of like a devil ear. Oh! That little trim worked. That looks amazing. That looks amazing.
- I think it's good. - [Tyler] Yeah, you gotta
come around and look at it. - I'm coming. And I think we could call that outlined. Oh, he's cute, isn't he? I mean, are we really
gonna do better than that? - [Tyler] No. (Safiya and Erni laugh) - [Safiya] And with everything outlined, the thing I actually think I
did the worst on was the stars. (Erni laughs) - [Tyler] Probably. - [Safiya] We were ready
for our final tufts. Now we fill it in. Now we fill it in.
- Okay. - [Safiya] AKA filling in our background with long vertical strokes. - [Tyler] Look at that. Look at that line. - All right, so a bunch more of those. - [Erni] Yeah, a bunch
more of those, exactly. - [Safiya] Which is kind of tedious work, but it's much easier than
tufting actual shapes and it does really give off some satisfying time-lapse visuals. - [Tyler] It's like in, like, Kid Pix when you have, like, the fill in. - [Safiya] You know what? It sounds like Kid Pix right now. - [Tyler] It does. Oh, no. Oh, no. - [Safiya] I actually found this part to be kind of fun and chill. - It's very fulfilling
after you finish this part. - [Safiya] But we had been
tufting for a few hours already and in order to make sure Erni didn't have to keep her
store open into the night for us to finish our rug, she and I tag teamed this part a bit just because I was going
pretty slow and deliberate and Erni was obviously much faster. She is the master tufter after all. So we were soaring, nay,
flying across the canvas. And after doing this for quite a while. Last little patch. Ready? - Yeah.
- Little baldy over here. - [Tyler] Yeah, yeah, yeah. - We finally arrived at our last strokes. And after a quick tap, tap, tap. Sounding good? Is it sounding good? - Well, it passed my check. - Oh!
- All right! Amazingly, we were done tufting. - [Tyler] Wow, it really
does look like the graphic. - Do you think I did Dayana proud? - [Tyler] I think so. - I'm sorry about the stars, Dayana. And we only had a few things left to do before we could take our rug home with us. First we rolled a bunch of
glue on the backside of our rug to seal the stitches in and make sure our tufts didn't fall out. My arms are tired, I'm
gonna have to be honest. This gluing is a lot
easier than using the gun, but, like, I'm like (groans), like, tired. Next, Erni swooped in with a heat gun to quickly seal the glue
and make sure it was dry. After which, we cut our night
sky blob out of the canvas to free it from its earthly tether. Smells like hot glue back here. Smells good.
(Erni laughs) Voila, a rug and a hole. Next up, Erni and her associate Susan attached an actual rug backing to our rug with traction pads and everything. Like bath mat style, right? Like a little non-slip action. And then our final step
was to shave this bad boy. - [Tyler] It looks amazing. - [Safiya] It's fuzzy,
just like it's mama. Now, I've seen people
shave their creations in a lot of the rug tufting
videos I've watched. I actually find it to be
a pretty satisfying step in the process. Oh.
- Ooh. - [Safiya] Oh. But after having come so far, I was a little nervous that
my tired hands could slip and somehow shave my rug bald. All right, high stakes. - [Tyler] How's your hand feeling, Saf? - Tired.
- Yeah? - [Safiya] But after a few
swipes at shaving the test wall. - [Tyler] Sponsored by Manscaped. - [Safiya] By Manscaped? That would actually be a
really smooth integration. It was time for me to dig in. All right, I'm gonna just try one over here in the dark just to see. Now, this was pretty tricky because you actually don't want to dig in with the clippers since that could cause
a crater in the rug, but if you don't go deep enough, you actually won't end up
shaving anything at all. Is that better?
- Yep, yep, better. Yes, now you're not pulling out yarn. You're actually trimming it. - So you have to be very level and at the exact right height. (clippers whirring)
(Safiya squealing) And it's not that I was awful at this, but I just really didn't wanna mess up all of our hard work at the last second. Should I hand it off?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- Yes. - I'm, like, terrified. In my defense, Erni doesn't usually let her beginner students shave
their rugs themselves, but having seen it so many times, I was happy to have at least tried it. And after another pass from
Susan, she was all shaved. - Done.
- Wow, beautiful. Yeah, I'm glad that I didn't do it. And with all of that, we
had a finished rug, baby. - [Erni] Hooray, we're done. Yes, finally. Woohoo! - Finally!
- Get out of my studio. - Bye.
(Safiya and Tyler laugh) - [Safiya] Now, I'm not gonna
lie, that took us a while. Partially because everything
is always a bit slower when you're filming it and I was tufting very deliberately, but it's kind of crazy to think about how many
TikToks about rug tufting are, like, a minute long and it took us hours to tuft
a rug even of this size. - [Erni] About seven hours, right? - Seven hours of blood,
sweat, and tears right here. - [Tyler] How's your hand feeling? - Mm, a little numb. However, I am pretty happy
with the final product, especially considering how
we started off the day. - [Tyler] Yeah, no, it was
in train wreck territory. - [Safiya] Now that's what I
call character development. But now that I've learned a little bit about some of the ins
and outs of rug tufting, I feel like I could do even
better the next time around. - [Tyler] You have the itch to come back. - [Safiya] I have the itch to come back - Next time, you will just fly through it. - So in this satisfying craft rodeo, even though I had a few stumbles, I feel like we successfully
rode the bucking bronco that was the tufting gun. Thank you for having us. This was so fun. I'll shake your hand and then I'm gonna put my hand in ice for the rest of the night. - All right. Thank you. Thank you for coming.
- This is the last action of my right hand for
the rest of the evening. And as for this guy, even
though he's technically a rug, I feel like we put in too much work on him to put him on the ground. I think we should hang him up somewhere like a baby blobbish tapestry at the very least to save
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