Imperfect scraps make great rugs.

I like the idea of starting with a clean slate. However, real life isn't like that. You meet someone amazing and start your life with them, but you still bring alone all the old baggage with you. Taking those scraps of your old life and making them into something beautiful is difficult, but can become something beautiful.

I like the idea of doing that with craft projects too. Having all the perfect supplies and having the finished project look just like the picture I saw online. That never happens. First of all I am way too impatient to wait for all the supplies. I also like to think that the mistakes I make along the way give my project a uniqueness that can only be found in things handmade.

My current projects, greatly motivated by our icy cold tile floors and lack of funds for fancy brand new rugs, have revolved around the idea of taking old tshirts and making them into rugs. Granted, making rugs by hand still takes time, so I am still very mid-project, but it's a start. The fun thing about acknowledging that life is a progressive journey with a beginning, middle and end is that evening beginnings of projects can be kind of awesome.




Both of these rugs are being made using tshirt yarn. I have made as much yarn as possible using that technique, now I have to go through the rest of my tshirt scraps and make them into yarn or strips. I think I am also going to take all the rough scraps that have seams and such to make a shag rug for putting our mucky shoes on and such when we first walk in. But that is a ways down my list of things to get done.