I pin happily and am ever energized with the recipes, crafts and resourceful ideas that people share on Pinterest. It's grand. I have mostly cooked and baked recipes which were then shared and devoured within a couple days. But last evening, I upcycled!
The Rug; happily crafted from the (old) shirts off my back.
As I was cutting and weaving through my elderly t-shirts I remembered all the good times that I had in them: summer camp, wilderness first responder training, trading Chicago and Nebraska t-shirts with my best friend and roomie in college. . . it was great; and I was on a roll. As the sun set I sat there weaving, feeling like Penelope weaving her magestic tapestry. . . I must have sat there for a good two hours in the dark wooping and warfing with my t-shirts and imagination. I finally got up and took the hoop to the light. What looked crafty and fun in the darkness looked like a sloppy second graders craft of woe. Don't get me wrong. I think the rug would have turned out the same even if I'd been under the Tuscan sun in July. I had a hoot putting it together and it will look great hanging on a wall, as a decorative rug in a bathroom or as a very large pot-holder on a kitchen table. If you have around 5-10 old t-shirts and want to get crafty and up-cycled this is a fun way to pass a chill-you-to-the-bone evening. Here's the link with directions: http://spoonful.com/crafts/hula-hoop-rug
Cutting up the t-shirts left me with this pithy saying from one of my "Life is Good" t-shirts that I made into a bracelet! :)
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