Get a peg loom and USE it!

I already have the dowel to be cut into pegs. So, the biggest piece that was holding me back is DONE!

Now I gotta get DH to either set me up to drill the needed holes or badger him into doing it.

I think I’ll ask him to help. My “honey DO!” for this weekend was to try and get him to make the ledge the spice rack needs. THAT will be used every day, so it’s a much higher priority than the peg loom project.

jkd

It occurred to me that the reason I was so psyched about the idea of a peg loom was that I could make rugs. Maybe I need to MAKE the rugs for my downstairs?

Well, it’d give me something to focus on rather than panicking about getting rid of the “stuff” and the “style police.”

I was looking up sources for chenille yarn the other day, maybe this was in the back of my head the whole time? I wonder how a rug edged with blue jeans would work?

I better get DH started on that loom huh?

jkd

I usually do on Thursdays. The ladies working were talking about a lot of clothes that had been left which included a bunch of unsaleable jeans. I offered to take them off their hands, and they gave them to me!

Whoopee!

When the manager gets back from her vacation, there’s a possibility they may give them to me all the time. Material for the rug for FREE!

tee hee

The Goddess, Serendipity strikes AGAIN!

jkd

it still doesn’t talk about what happens at the open end of the strings, but no one seems to worry about that!

http://www.stewardwood.org/resources/DIYpegloom.htm

There are pictures with this set and the explanation is better written too, it’s completely understandable!

jkd

the little table top ones. I just found out there’s a way of making one that allows you to do BIG projects, like rugs. It’s very old “tech” and I’m fascinated. Unfortunately, although I found a description on how to make it, and how to use it, I haven’t found how to actually set it up.

Probably seems elementary to all those pro British women I found blogging about them, but unfortunately, not to myself or DH!

I also found about 5 locations where there were instructions for the no-sew fleece blankets, which seem really easy!

(And, of course, I have an idea, I could do this differently, or that, or….)

jkd