Campcraft

I've been out of state for 3 glorious weeks:

• 1 week at Boy Scout camp in Mississippi
• 1 week of visiting friends and family in North Carolina
• 1 week of Boy Scout camp in North Carolina

Always needing to have some small craft and not wanting to take a lot of supplies, I opted for working on an old-school friendship bracelet in Mississippi

and taught some staff members in North Carolina how to make lanyards with plastic lace, which I forgot to take pictures of

image snagged from https://wanelo.com/store/keys2please

Before leaving, I also finished my t-shirt rug!

Back on track

I've gotten distracted, y'all.

I'm supposed to be finishing projects, not starting new ones. Recent social and political goings-on have distracted and inspired me to be making new things, but I need to get back on track.

Here are two rugs which I started working on 2 springs ago, in preparation for use at summer camp. I'm hoping THIS will be the summer that at least one of them makes it to my tent!

Both are made from old t-shirts that had were worn out with holes or stains. And I confess, maybe one or two colors were purchased just to add to the mix.

The first one I started without a pattern; it's just rows of single stitch crochet in a rainbow stripe pattern. It goes together pretty quickly once the shirts are cut and rolled into "yarn" balls.

disclaimer: immediately after taking this picture, I disassembled this rug and started over

The second rug I am braiding and hand-stitching the coils with heavy-duty thread. It is very time consuming, but I love the way it's turning out! My middle son has already claimed this one. Right now, it's about 14" in diameter.