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Well Friday just rolled in and no sooner had I blinked and it rolled back out again.
Fridays are great because I means I go for an early finish so I can pop into town and do some tufting!
I’m making a hearth rug, ready for the winter (when we get to light the fire and make it all cosy in the living room).
I asked various kids in the family to provide me with some artwork for the rug and the 9-year-old twins Aoibhinn and Orlaith drew fruit and a panda, 10-year-old Aoife drew a massive strawberry and 13-year-old Elvis some weird cartoon character (that apparently is quite popular, where he lives in Sicily).
I asked if they wanted to come up with something a bit more cohesive, between them, and they insisted no – I had to create a rug using the artwork they had each individually drawn and provided. So that’s what I’m doing.
Progress so far….
This is actually the back of the rug (you “tuft” from the reverse side) and it’s taken me four sessions of two hours to get this far!
Hopefully another two and it should be done and ready. The view from the front is less impressive until the entire thing is done, because the pile doesn’t stand up as it should, so the edges look a bit blurry
The hardest job was not correcting the mistakes in the drawings! I had to work really hard to keep the pictures exactly as the kids had drawn them. But it’s coming along nicely – and is going to look awesome in my living room once done! It’s about 1.6m x 60cm in size – so will be covering a decent chunk of floor space when it’s down!
