Re-purposed Old Clothes

Good morning sweet blogging buds!

Well Mother Nature blessed us 

with yet another 6  1/2 inches of snow yesterday.

I thought February would be different...

guess I was wrong.

It has been a very long Winter for us.
Plus now the ground hog saw his shadow.
I'n not one for hurting animals...
but someone should have kidnapped that groundhog
until Spring arrived.

Looking at my rugs the other day

 brought back a sweet memory of my gramma B.

Each season she would go through her closet and clothes that 

no longer fit or were past their prime

were recycled.

Once she picked which clothes were no longer fit to wear.
She would put them in a pile on the floor in the living room
of her farmhouse.

Grabbing her trusty scissors she would cut one inch slits across each piece
and my job was to rip them into strips.

We had fun cutting and ripping 
with piles of colors everywhere on the floor.

Once we were done with making fabric strips,
next came making fabric balls out of each of the colors.

It took many seasons to have enough fabric balls
needed to make a rug.
(This white multi colored one was from my grammas collection)

Once gramma had enough rag balls,
she would let me pick out the color combinations.
We would put them in paper bags and I would tag along
with gramma to take the rag balls to a lady who made the rugs.
Two weeks later we drove back and picked up
some wonderful homemade rag rugs.
I was so proud of myself!
The white multi rag rug is one I chose the colors for.
These rag rugs were not for decorating.
They were placed at both the front and back doors
of her farmhouse.
Placed near beds and bigger ones in front of the sofa and chairs.
I was so glad gramma saved this little white multi one for me.
I will treasure it forever.

Rag Rug Blessings To All!
Janice