Turkey Tracks: I Finished The Rugs!

Turkey Tracks:  March 21, 2013

I Finished The Rugs!

The old sheets I cut into strips with my pinking rotary cutter blade made three rugs.

Here are all three rugs at the front door:

Sheet Rugs

You can begin to see the possibility of sewing the rug sections together to make a larger rug…

And here’s a video so you can see them close-up:

I like the first one I show the best, which is a surprise.  It’s the one without any strips or blocks of color, but with the sheets and the fabrics always just alternated.  It looks so sweet at my back door in the kitchen.  It looks very French country, actually.

I put leftover strips on the loom to hold the side rods in place, so it’s all set up for another project.  I noticed this week in changing sheets that the elastic in one bottom blue sheet is getting very stretched out.  Probably by next winter, I’ll be cutting up more sheet strips.  Blue ones.  These rugs would make nice gifts, especially here in Maine where people take off their boots when they come in your house.

Turkey Tracks: They’re Still Making Fairy Houses

Turkey Tracks:  March 21, 2013

They’re Still Making Fairy Houses

When John and I were in Charleston last spring, we brought the children a book on Maine fairy houses.

We all made fairy houses all over the yard–after collecting flotsam and jetsam from the neighborhood.

Tami sent me this picture last fall, I think.

fairy houses continue

It’s a work of art.

I love the imagination!

Turkey Tracks: The Scarf Came!

Turkey Tracks:  March 21, 2013

The Scarf Came!

With the recent snow, I left our mail in the mailbox for a day.

When I retrieved it yesterday, there was a fat, small envelope that mystified me.

When I opened it, out fell this beautiful blue and white scarf!

My niece Nancy Howser Gardner had mailed me the scarf she had made for me as part of our bargain–red hand-knitted socks for her, a scarf for me.

It’s beautiful, and look what it goes with–my spring vest, which also has mittens and a hat of this same blue:

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I might even be able to wear all of this regalia soon as we are now into our spring warming trend.  Now, my neck will be toasty warm.

Thanks, Nancy!!!  It’s beautiful, I love it, I love that you made it for me, and I love the colors.  (How did you know?)