It made me think of making rugs using my own tshirt fabric. Because I make my own casual cotton knit shirts, I have a 25 year collection of leftover scraps. I dug them all out and was surprised to discover a small mountain of fabric. It’s definitely time to reduce the pile! I ...
The next item I put in the basket was STAINMASTER® Carpet Pet Stain Remover which is perfect for the inevitable pet messes that will happen on your rugs and carpeted areas. I never realized just how much this would come in handy. It removes stubborn pet stains but also can be used on...
Designing Rugs July 6, 2017 Previous PostHonor Roll Next PostEleanor's First Skates Kayla May 14, 2012 at 9:03 am This post is so appropriate for me this morning…but not because I’m in the market for a new rug…but because our three cats are being jerks lately! We’ve never reall...
Copeland has another dance partner. This month, she joined actresses Charlize Theron and Yao Chen inBreitling’s“Spotlight Squad” trio as an ambassador for the luxury watch brand’s first versatile all-purpose watches for women, the Chronomat 36 and 32. “...
Designing these rugs from my initial drawings and then developing them into final designs in photoshop is the surface designer in me; tufting them with my rug tufting gun in a tiny, cold corridor in our uni building, or the spare room in my mom’s bungalow, is what really fills me with...
heating and cooling for comfort, just as an example, and again I will cite the case of our neighbour. Their 15,000 Watt ducted air-conditioning system heats their entire home during our short Perth winter. We use 50 Watt electric throw rugs when we need warmth and we wear winter clothes...
Trade goods brought by the Portuguese to sell in India were cut and branch coral, copper in pigs and sheets, quicksilver, vermillion, rugs, Flanders brass basins, colored cloths, knives, red barret-caps, mirrors and colored silks. But European products did not sell all that well in Asia, ...
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I have been creating as long as I remember (remember latch hook rugs?). After about 2 years of being a full-time mom of two small children, I had a need to start creating again. I bought a small kiln (toaster-oven size), some scrap glass and some books and started experimenting, ...
There are things we all ought to have once we start taking home-making seriously. Carol O’Callaghan offers 25 useful suggestions to get you going