Hooked

This small rug - about 30" across - is made of strips of t-shirt fabric, from old t-shirts of course, very densely hooked into hessian. As part of the current decluttering effort, I passed my accumulated t-shirts and precut strips on to someone who loves to make rag rugs. But it certainly would be fun to use this as a starting point for some applique with handstitch...

It was inspired by some dress fabric bought at Liberty about 20 years ago, for about £2 a yard, which got made into curtains for the narrowboat about 10 years ago. They have faded something shocking, unfortunately but not unexpectedly, after a decade of bright light.