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Food & crafts => Crafts => Topic started by: Bionic on April 28, 2013, 04:33:44 pm
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I have just finished my first rag rug using old t-shirts. There are loads of t-shirts in it and as a consequence the rug is very heavy.
The picture doesn't do it justice because the flash was on and it looks a bit washed out. In reality its even brighter than is shown and I am really pleased with it.
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Wowowoowowowowo, I adore that, a real show stopper.......I am doing this on my I pad while cooking and accidentally tapped "notify". Sorry asif I had money to spare....I WOULD but that, all my fave Colours.
I have a rag rug but my current washing machine is not big enough to wash it, now it stinks but no way would I part with mine either :love:
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beautiful
Dans
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That's gorgeous!! Love it. And love your taste in t-shirt colours too... :)
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I've really been missing pics of people's projects recently. That's a real stunner Sally :excited: and so well done, all even and well packed together.
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I really enjoyed doing it. I might make a cushion cover next but will have to go to the charity shops for some more t-shirts ;D
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WOW that's brilliant :thumbsup:
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That is amazing!
I must find some more time for (yet another) craft...
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WOW Sally that is wonderful. You are so talented. Beautiful colour combinations.
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Really like your rag rug :thumbsup: . Just one other thing we have matching dining room table and chairs :thumbsup: .
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Wow - that's beautiful Sally. Well done
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that looks great! :thumbsup:
I've nearly finished a shaggy rag rug I'm making for my daughter. It will be made up of 6 squares with a heart in each. Pink background and white/pale pink hearts. I have used all she old baby clothes that I kept and it is lovely and soft. Only trouble is I need a bit more pink to finish it off so I'm just waiting for my girls to grow out of some stuff!
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Clarebelle, your rug sounds lovely and such a nice idea to use their old baby clothes. Don't forget to post a picture when you have finished it.
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will do ;D
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Just started collecting old rugs , i am going to make t-shirts with them !
Lovely colours in your rug Sally .
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Russ, I didn't think you could see pics. Glad you like it.
Been to the charity shops today to collect more material for the next project.
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It depends how they are put on i think Sally and what type of file etc . Also i am normally on mobile mode , no pics at all , but if i go onto full version pics load then , sometimes .
Being a hand washer i only do dark greens , blues and shades of black , but i do like other colours . Your colour mix in the rug is really nice .
If i made something like that it would just be like army camo !
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Those colours remind me of a rose garden, love them, do soldiers ever hide in roses?
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They probably wished they could have in Towton in 1461 , one of the battles in the wars of the Roses .
The ground and the river , ran red with the blood , of Englishman killing Englishman .
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Now that rug is an eye opener. Beautiful work. I would love to see rustyme wearing it.
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It's beautiful :trophy: .
I made a rag rug for my daughter's room using clothes that she had grown out of, so all pinks, purples and green. She wanted me to enter something in the village show (the children always enter lots of classes) so we entered the rug in the "something new from something old" class and came first. She was really pleased.
I made one in blues for my son's room but he says it's too "girlie" ::) , so it lives in the guest room.
I'm in the middle of 2 others. Have to keep waiting for the children to grow out of clothes or family to send bags of old stuff. Enjoy them but they seem to take forever to complete. ::)
My dad remembers his mum always having "one on the go" and the children all helping with it in the winter when they couldn't get outside. ;D
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Can't believe I missed this post before - Its fantastic, really really lovely!!! Sally, can you teach me ;)
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Plums, its the easiest thing you will ever do, believe me.
You need a bodger (quite expensive about £16) and then some hessian, some old clothes cut into little pieces, about 1 inch by 3 inches, and off you go. Just stick the bodger through the hessian, open the clasp, grip the material and pull it half way through and you have your first piece done.
My friend is making one too and she says her daughter does one end while she does the other. Your girls could get involved too.
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Thank you :thumbsup: I have some hessian here (I wrap soap in it!) looking forward to trying that.
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Got loads of old clothes (not only past their best, but definitely past their second best - full of holes!) - so maybe this is something I should take up...
Very beautiful, your rug. Not exactly my colours normally, but this does look nice.
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Very beautiful, your rug. Not exactly my colours normally, but this does look nice.
Ina, there were a class of 8 of us who started making the rugs. Every rug is completely different. Its interesting to see what colours and patterns people have chosen. Mine is by far the 'loudest' ;D
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My dad remembers his mum always having "one on the go" and the children all helping with it in the winter when they couldn't get outside. ;D
THose were the days. I used ti clip "clips" for my mother. It was learning by play -counting, dividing , sorting by colour - keeping my brother amused by letting him take them back and forth with his tractor and trailer. She also made a rug for him with roads and fields so he could be a farmer
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by the way, for anyone wanting to try it. I do not use a bodger. When I started my rug I couldnt find one anywhere so I improvised by using a pair of tweezers and they work great!
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I am now working on my first rag rug using a latch hook from ebay... It was £2.70 - It works really well & I'm going to get a couple more so the kids can join in. If my rug turns out half as good as yours I'll be happy!
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My OH found a hole in a tee-shirt the other day so he said it was one for the bin. "Don't you dare," I said. "It can be washed and turned into a rug." I'm planning on doing mine on my new pegloom although I now fancy doing one like Sally's.
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OK - you inspired me!! I'm taking a rag rug project with me on holiday!!!
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I'm sure you won't regret it :thumbsup:
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We bought a 1972 caravan - it still has all its original 'features' and I am restoring it, keeping it as a 70's but with some ethnic arty twists.
It seemed that an orange, yellow, red and brown rag rug would be the way forward!! along with crocheted cushion covers, a sari made table cloth, crystal tie backs on the curtains and lots of shabby chic love heart bunting. Yes - I've totally absorbed myself into this one!!
will let you know how the rug goes!!
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..........and, I washed my rag rug, mine is all blues but I still love it...it still smells a bit but I will wash it again now we are getting more sun :sunshine:
Lisa, I love your little project, I want to do the same with a shed or a small caravan, all quirky and pretty hippy chick!!! :excited: :excited:
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Lovely colours, well done
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This is beautiful - wow!
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I have finally finished the shaggy rag rug I was making for my daughters room. I hope the picture works ok
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Oh, that's pretty :thumbsup:
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Thats lovely clarebelle. She must be very pleased. :thumbsup:
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Oh well done. :trophy:
Must try a pattern. Mine are .... errrr ..... free style. ::)
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Lovely...if its brighter in real life you must need your shades on though...its a rug to make you happy.
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Clarebelle, that is a lovely rug for a girl's room. I'll bet she's thrilled.
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Yeah, she loves it and it looks perfect in a girls room. My other two girlies share a room and the have decided they want a butterfly for their rug! Not sure how i'm going to pull that one off yet but if i manage it i'll post a pic, lol!
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Hey, getting commissions already :thumbsup:
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Clarebelle (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=27211), I love it, so pretty :thumbsup: ...I must make things again, trouble is, there is nothing I want to make at the moment but those rag rugs are lovely..just my thing
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Go for it, Sandy.
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Sandy,
The rag rugs are so simple to do and the good thing is that they are easy to put down and pick up again just where you left off. I am sure if you started one you would find a good home for it by the time you have finished.
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I have only just managed to wash the one I bought years ago....my washing machine does not have a huge drum like one I used to have, also then I have to find a nice warm day...so its washed and dried but still a tad stinky....in this house we have no room for rugs as its shared with our guests and they would say it was a trip hazzard or wee on it....when we move we so want a tiny place and a shed so then I will make one, I did used to make rugs but when I was 20, then they were woolen and expensive to make and they also were heavy, I would have fun making rag ones I know, plus I can cut up all my old to small dresses and jumpers :excited:
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Sally,
the rug is FAB, where was the class you took?
I love doing crafts but tend to leave lots of things unfinished because I don't spend enough time on it, I need a class to make me set aside the time and gives me a break from the farm.
Clarebell that is lovely too!
In Carmarthen and Swansea there's a place you can get all sorts of crafty bits and quite cheaply, called Trysordy (Welsh for 'treasure') They Carmarthen one is better and they don't make you pay a joining fee.
They have these frayed lengths of woven type fabric, edges or something or other, I forget, but they make fantastic peg loom or extreme knitting rugs. I saw the same stuff at Wonderwool (although it was proper tweed) for a LOT more money. I got a bin bag full at Trysordy for a few quid!
I'm thinking of some clothing upcycling next as my plans to lose a bit of weight aren't going well but I can't bear to throw anything away or buy new clothes!!!
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The class was at Mydfai community centre. The woman who took the class is really into upcycling and has bought in loads of clothes to show us that she has altered in some way.
I've not hear of Trysordy and I was only in Carmarthen yesterday :(
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I once wove a rug out of terry nappies that my youngest had finished with (having boiled them first of course). I sold it in our workshop to a young woman who was looking for a gift for her husband to buy her for her birthday. She loved the idea that it was recycled nappies.
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I made one in 1970, had it for years. We bought a Irish Setter and he took a liking to it, back to rags once more
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I once wove a rug out of terry nappies that my youngest had finished with (having boiled them first of course). I sold it in our workshop to a young woman who was looking for a gift for her husband to buy her for her birthday. She loved the idea that it was recycled nappies.
She was very odd, IMO. :D
I love recycling and upcycling as much as the next person - but used nappies? :o And from someone else's baby, too!???
Funnily enough, I am just assessing some Wensleydale fleece I have bought; having washed it I can see it includes quite a bit that's stained with urine, and I'm trying to decide if I want to use it or not. Part of me says, "Ugh, no way", and another part says, "Why not? It's washed, there are no germs"... I'm planning to dye the yarn anyway... :thinking:
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If you don't mind wasting a bit of dye Sally I would try it and then see what you think. I would hate to waste it. In victorian times they used urine in the dyemaking process anyway.
When I went to the woolen museum the week before last they were saying that people were paid 1d (old penny) per pot of urine although households where no alcohol was drunk were paid 2d per pot as the urine was purer.
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Brilliant, Sally! :thumbsup: Now I shall have no qualms about using it - I have to say, on a few locks I gave an extra wash to, just to see if the staining would come out, the colour has now washed to quite an attractive primrose yellow! lol. I shall certainly keep locks which are nice fibre, just a bit stained, and be happy with any variation in the dyed yarn as 'adding character' ;) :-J
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here's the link, it's just outside Carmarthen, beware it is pretty cold in the warehouse bit!
http://www.trysordy.org.uk/eng/ (http://www.trysordy.org.uk/eng/)
Hmmm, I met a lady called Hannah at the Gower Heritage Museum a couple of weekends ago, it was Wool Week. She did spinning, dyeing, weaving and indeed upcycling - wonder if that was her?
She lives really near our village and our Crafty Bitches group are planning to invite her to one of our sessions to do a bit of something new. She was interested in my Iron Age pigs because they do the medieval re-enactment things!
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Ferretkeeper, that place looks fabulous :thumbsup: . Definitely going there soon