So many scraps of fabric and yarn and finally something to use them for: rug hooking! I took a 6 hour workshop with Carmen who has been 'hooking' for 18 years. We used a 2 x 4 wood frame cut to the dimension of our item, in this case a pillow top, and stapled the burlap (coffee bean bags from our local roaster) and drew the pattern in black marker. The tool is called a 'speed tufting tool', readily available and popular in the 70's, and the learning curve was short! What fun to find a way to use recycled materials productively in a fairly short time frame. My next project is a small rug and it will be interesting to see it develop. I might actually run our of scraps!!!!
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