Daisy and I are a rug-making TEAM! I cut the strips, she connects them, I crochet, and she tells me what color to do next (from her little paper list). I love having a project we can honestly do together, as so many things are beyond her little eight-year old hands. But this is definitely a good collaboration, and now she has yet another cozy spot to curl up and read in her room.
Good team work girls!
ReplyDeleteSwoon. That looks so lovely - the colours are delightful. Is it hard to crochet with jersey? Does it hurt your hands?
ReplyDeletePretty rug! And extra special because you did it together! Christina
ReplyDeleteThat is a lovely rug! I have memories from almost fifty years ago of my grandmother and I doing the same thing. I also have memories of playing "house" under the quilting frame. Does Daisy ever get to do that over at your mother's house?
ReplyDeleteHappy Valentine's Day to all at the Pleasant View Schoolhouse (and in darkest Peru).
A quilting frame would make a great house! My mother just quilts in her lap with no frame though.
ReplyDeleteMost excellent color choices, Daisy, and great crochet work, Anna,
ReplyDeleteThe new rug is a smashing success!
I hope you love and enjoy it, Daisy.
It's a very pretty design. A wonderful project for you both.
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Love it. Does she hand sew the strips together?
ReplyDeleteI took a class prechildren with my mom, wool rag rug making. The teacher held mine up, put it on her head, and made it clear that this was not what a rug should look like. Bearing the scars still, lol.
Did you buy Jersey fabric or use tshirts. Is that a weird question?
Kimmie
mama to 8
One homemade and 7 adopted
Kimmie, we use the technique where you cut a little slit in the end of each strip and thread the next one through--no sewing or tying necessary. And we used all scraps which was momentous--I had two overflowing bins of jersey scraps and they are down to nothing (see tonight's post!).
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