rag rugs rather ragged

On Sunday I had a rag rug session for Transition Leytonstone. Only four of us,as that is all I can fit round my dining room table. (The table is second hand, if slimmer and longer it would fit much better in my dining room and fit 6 crafters around it, but that is the problem of second hand, what you find is often not ideal, especially if you don't have a car so everything large has to be sourced locally.)

One person didn't turn up, and one came, but, as she hadn't sourced any material to mend the rug she wanted to mend, didn't stay for long. So that left RoseMarie and me.

Here's how far I have got!

And RoseMarie was making a toothbrush rug (named after the hook used).

Though both us found it useful to have an "appointment" to start our rugs, we won't be having other rag rug sessions together.

Green connections

Went to a Transition Leytonstone evening on "your money or your life". This was a follow-up to the talk by the blogger Stoneleigh where I had been very depressed by her predictions of a depression worse than the 1930s because of the housing bubble. As someone without sellable practical skills and savings the outlook if she is right isn't good at all!

Yesterday did not cheer me up ref the financial situation, but I have got an application form so I can join the local Credit Union (as a depositer), I met Sarah and we discussed our vegetable plots, and she told me about a very sweet plant and the name of the nursery I can get it from. I was able to get some advice about the replacing of my window where the seal on the double glazing has gone (don't bother with triple glazing). And I met and chatted with several other people I know from Transition Leytonstone and other green events.

Destroying t-shirts ready for ragrug making

I have arranged the rag rug session with 3 other members of Transition Leytonstone for the end of October. Time will fly by, so I have started to cut strips of old t-shirts and sew them together into lengths about 1m long.

I have a dressing gown which won't stay done up. I have recently realised it is t-shirt type material, so have added that to the stash ready for the scissors.

As I am also refilling old lavender bags with fresh lavender for my clothes drawers, I need lots of TV/radio, as that's is when I like to do these sorts of tasks.

Transition Leytonstone Recycled Craft Group

The second meeting of the Transition Leytonstone Recycled Craft Group at my house this afternoon, with 5 of us.

Roger is going to organise the Make Do and Mend event in September. Hurrah!

Four of us will meet at my place for a rag rug session.

I have volunteered to circulate information around my email contact list, but we will not be setting up a committee to run the group unless someone else volunteers for this task!

We will concentrate on the Make Do and Mend event and see what develops!

Craft Group

The email has gone out!  I am having an exploratory meeting with the idea of setting up a Transition Leystonstone (recyled) craft group.  I'd got the house reasonable for Christmas/New Year but now will have to get it sorted again in time for this meeting.  It's at the end of March, but already thinking about bits of housework, "I won't do that now, I'll only have to do it again before the craft meeting."
I hope I get enough people to make it interesting and not too many to fit into the room!