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Our grandmother showed me how to make braided rag rugs when I was a little girl. I have a braided rug of Grammy’s beside my bed to this day, and my father has made sure each of his children has one for posterity. Every time you look at your braided rug, you’ll remember little Dick’s cotton jacket or young Jane’s plaid skirt or perhaps the undershirt that Puff, the cat, shredded. Memories like these leave you with such a warm feeling.
Enjoy, PS I incorporated the braided rug instructions into The Goodbye Lie (circa 1882), the first in my series of historical romance novels. In my story, Grammy (Hettie Stubitts) teaches her eighteen-year-old granddaughter, Breelan, the technique. PPS Store your fabric scraps in decorative rag balls.
click on the photo of Grammy to enlarge it Assemble:
1. Gather old, clean clothes like tee shirts, skirts, housecoats, shirts - anything but denim, corduroy, or heavy wool. (They are too heavy to sew through.) Cut off all the buttons, zippers, and hooks and eyes, and save them for other projects. 2. Cut or tear the cloth into three-inch wide long strips. Sew several of these long lengths together, end to end, mixing and matching the patterns. 3. Fold the frayed edges inward about a 1/4 inch, then fold the strip in half. Finger press the turned in edges of your “tails.” (Instead of getting out the iron, run the edges between your fingers to crease them. Finger pressing is sometimes done in quilting.) Secure with just enough straight pins so the folds stay in place. 4. Pin three long tails together at the top and braid them, keeping the braid as flat as possible. Continue to sew on more tails, braiding them as you go. 5. Decide on the shape of your rug.
Make your rug as large as you need. Small to medium size rugs are best because they can be cleaned in the washing machine. Small rugs can be used as placemats or table doilies for a country look.
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