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It’s been a longggggg time since i last posted. Things have been really busy here in Coventry, and I’m moving house at the weekend (not long to go now!), so I’m sure there will be more posts here over the next few weeks.

I’m moving back in with my dad as me and Rich are saving for a mortgage, and that’s best done with us not living together (I can save more if I’m living at home with dad).

I’ll be moving back into my old room, which to me fair I didn’t do much with when I was previously living there.. the carpet was a nightmare (see below picture), and the walls weren’t much better.. I got as far as repainting the whole room white, but not much more was done than that. The chimney breast was plastered over (with the other walls wallpapered), so I’ll have to re-wallpaper the chimney breast when I get the decorating started.

My bedroom carpet!

After watching a program about Victorian housewives past times, some of the craft work they did (nearly always recycled), it occurred to me I wanted to give a few of them ago. One of them being shaggy rag rugs! (picture to follow). They are rugs made out of rags or strips of fabric woven or stitched together.

After trawling the internet I finally found a fantastic tutorial of how to actually make them! (tutorial can be found here). This is the aim:

Tshirt latch hook rug

To make it you lay out your latch hook canvas and start to thread through your strips of fabric with the latch hook tool. You fix the material in place using a special technique with the latch hook tool, and after a lot of latching, you create your rug!

I’m hoping that every aspect of the rug will be eco friendly (aside from the tool and canvas which I’ve had to buy). Am hoping to start on this as soon as I source a vast quantity of second hand tshirts!