Return to rag rugs

We returned to making rag rugs on Saturday.

The last time we were busy cutting up fabric and hooking and prodding  was in the blissful heat of the summer. I think we should make rag rugs more often as it seems to make the sun shine!

I got some coffee sacks from Brick lane market this time as they are great for the hessian base in which to work your rag rug. Others also used the jute shopping bags to work into, working on hiding a certain logo, how all shopping bags should be...

Some great organised chaos...and fierce concentration, we didn't feel the time flying by.

And there was even more fabric to choose from than last time as clothes and bedsheets are not given away to charity anymore (even friends and families unwanted clothes and bedsheets...I am a magnet for this stuff), they all get recycled into fantastic rag rug creations. 

And the tools with funny names - hooky and proddy - how those words can be interpreted in so many ways.

 

It was great to see the progress on a rag rug from the last session, all that time ago... OK, it wasn't so long ago really.