Year: 2024

  This is not a restoration, but a ‘re-invention’.  Restoration would mean the attempt to make it look like the original, but this is NOT the case here! It seems that ‘mice’ attacked this old and loved rug in Granny Squares, owned by a friend.  The conundrum of time vs the desire to honour the original item came into the conversation, so here is the result. I picked out the rodent-ravaged pieces, and using some squares from an abandoned project, inserted them into the item.  It now has a new chapter…

Like all of us makers, I do what I do because I love it!! And that will always be the case! But every once in a while, I think about what it would actually cost to make if one were being commissioned to make it.  What if I factored in all the hours of making the components, assembling them, and of course, the cost of the materials themselves? – what sort of price should that command? Everytime I go to an arts and crafts fair in Australia where I live,…