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I am a wife to an awesome husband and a mom to 2 cute kids, 3 & 1. I love finding creative things to try, both with my 3 year old and on my own. It's hard to find time to be crafty between wife and mother duties, but when I find the time... it's a craftiful life! I hope some of the projects I write about will inspire you to have a craftiful life too!

Friday, April 20, 2012

A nice splash of color

I had seen some old baby receiving blankets on our local buy and sell webpage and wondered what I could make out of them... after looking online for some ideas I came across this how to on braided rugs. 

So I got those old receiving blankets and started ripping them up!  I eventually decided the rug would go nicely infront of my washer & dryer. 

I would, however, like to warn you of two things before you try and attempt this project.  1. Make sure it's not too big a rug.  I measured the rug out to go infront of my washer and dryer but realized the space was a bit bigger than I first thought.  2. make sure you have the time!  I quickly found myself braiding and hand-stitching for a good week or two, but I think it was worth the work because I'm so proud of how it looks!  Definitely a nice splash of color to my dark and dreary laundry/storage room.

And now... I know you've been dying to see how it turned out... 



4 comments:

  1. Looks so good Danae :) You did a fantastic job... totally a lot of work though... I see what you mean about not picking too big of a spot to fill! I can't believe you have time for that kind of project just weeks before you move though! You're awesome.

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  2. That looks great Danae and what a super idea! It looks so soft and comfy too. I love the fb page with the little toes!

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  3. Oh my goodness - can't believe I haven't see this before now! LOVE it! I've been wanting to try this for so long but INCREDIBLY intimidated by it! It turned out fantastic! How many blankets did it end up taking?

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  4. it definitely wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, it's just really time consuming! (I guess depending how big you want to make it) I ended up using about 9 recieving blankets (3 blue, 3 yellow, and 3 pink). the only thing about the recieving blankets is that they are shorter than a bed sheet, so the transitions between each strip was way more than if a bed sheet was used. I still need to figure out a backing for it, to make it more stiffer, but pretty excited how it turned out!

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