Turning fabric scraps into a rag rug

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 On Saturday our Simple Living Toowoomba group  held one other of our fashionable rag rug workshops. We had our first workshop in 2012. They’re all the time lots of enjoyable as they’re hands-on workshops and it’s a good time to have a chat whereas studying make the rugs. 

Judy, who had made many rugs after first studying the strategy in certainly one of our early workshops, did the presenting and a few different women who have been additionally expert within the craft got here alongside to assist her. 

They introduced alongside a few of their accomplished rugs which have been created from previous doona covers, sheets and so on. from Op Retailers….

…or from material left over from different tasks. 

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After we first began making rag rugs there have been hardly any tutorials on-line on the time however now there are fairly a number of together with this one if you wish to take the time to study. 

I truly want to make use of Tshirt strips and some years again watched some movies from Renata’s Rugs which have been useful.

I’ve by no means accomplished a rug as reminiscent of we do not actually have wherever to place one the place we would not journey over it so I’ve simply made a number of smaller variations that I put a vase of flowers on. 

In the event you select your colors correctly you may make some gorgeous trying rugs. 

At our get-togethers we’ve got lots of laughs and certainly one of my associates was sitting close to Neralie who, together with her sister, presents our sewing workshops and she or he was having a giggle at how neat and tidy Neralie’s material strips have been….

…in comparison with hers. LOL! 

In  Might we can be combining with Margy’s Simple Slow Still for a Zero Waste Workshop offered by

Alice Carwardine. She is a zero waste campaigner who’s dedicated to guiding others on a path to ecological and cultural change and can be giving a lot of sensible concepts across the six R’s of sustainability: refuse, reuse, rot, refill, recycle, cut back. Alice may even recommend methods to go plastic free and points round truthful commerce.  

I hope everyone seems to be having a terrific week and you might be all maintaining nicely. 

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