Round and Round Rag Rugs

As it happens after a year of stripping fabric yardage, clipping, trimming and collecting scraps...my bins 'runneth over and over and over'.  And since I can't or won't simply throw them away, I recycle, recycle, recycle!  Clippings and trimmings are recycled as stuffing for 'Dog Beds'.  Strippings!!!! My favorites!!!!  I love making something out of leftovers, leftovers, leftovers!!!

So, as 2016 neared it's end, a Bin Binge began with separating and bagging the clippings and trimmings from the strippings.  Holy Bags of Scraps, Batman!, there was stuffing for more dog beds than I have dogs.  Not to worry...family dogs found new beds under their Christmas Trees.

As for the Strippings....several days were spent stitching them together end to end and rolling them into fabric balls and jelly rolls.  What fun making pot holders, microwave bowl warmers (will show them later) and rag rugs.  This round of rag rugs done in the round, but not necessarily round.  Yep, a giant size 'Q' crochet hook and yards and yards of strips makes crocheting round and round for several hours a fun and productive time.  At the end of the last round...here are some of the 'Round and Round Rag Rugs'....

 

A New Year...Bring It On!!!

I am glad it is a New Year.  Not that there was anything wrong with the old year...last year!  Well, maybe there were a few things that went wrong in 2016, but they were dealt with, lessons were learned, and choices made for the better.  At least I like to think so. 

 

As I review my Archives for 2016, it appears to have been my smallest number of posts in

7 full years of blogging.  What do I attribute that to?  Hmmmm....a number of things probably relating to those few things that went wrong in 2016.  If I think real hard, I might remember some of them.  Funny how time kind of blurs the details of things gone wrong....thank goodness!

Anyway, here we are on day one of this New Year, and as a person whose glass is always half full, I say...'Bring It On'.  I'm ready!  How about you?