Yesterday I went to visit my favourite recycle shop resource rescue in Bayswater. Resource Rescue gathers industrial off cuts and waste from companies around Melbourne and sells them for art and craft projects. I purchased some large upholstery textile books (see in the pic below) I wasn't sure what I would make with them, but took them home, pulled the books apart and started playing.
because all the swatches were already in squares I started placing them together in patterns to create perhaps a rug? or maybe a patchwork quilt... or possibly just creating a large piece of fabric which could be used to cover a couch.
I tried a few different layouts...
and then started joining them together (with my Brother overlocker)
the final product turned out like this
i love the red tones all mixed together!
i also popped it on the couch to have a look at what it may look like if i covered the whole couch with it
what do you think?
couch or rug?
overall I think its a very exciting project!
I spent $10 on an old textile sample book and created this amazing rug (and i still have more squares to play with)
Craft out!
xxoo
3 comments:
Love it as a rug!! amazing xoxox
I LOVE it! I have a similar place near where I live in the SF bay area of California that picks up and redistributes fabrics and other cool stuff and I've wanted to make something like this. Rug is a great idea.
On a separate topic, I adore that Chimp Daddy pillow! Was that one of your 365 projects? I'm a relatively new follower, starting in July/August. I would love to make something like that.
Thanks angela, the chimp daddy project is from earlier in the year. If you click on the tab at the top of my website called "gallery" you can see a quick month by month page of all the creations this year. Happy crafting! bronwyn
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