My handsome younger brother and his delightful wife have a cottage business, weaving wonderful rugs, blankets, towels etc. This Christmas we gave them blue jean quilt lap robes and they in turn shared products of their craft with us. I love having homemade things and things that are old or traditional. Maybe it is growing up in an antique and book store, I don't know....they are just better than new and bought somehow. I couldn't thank them enough for this lovely stuff.
And then they gave me heck for not putting the rugs on the floor. And for being afraid to use the towels and dish cloths for fear of ruining them. I was told "USE THEM!" in no uncertain terms.
Now I ask you...would you put this on the floor where dogs can claw and clatter or fold it in half and put it in this old Boston rocker to look pretty? Same here...the kids love to come sit in these two old rockers my dad gave me, when they want to talk to me, when I am reading in my Sunday chair...now they can sit on this beautiful rug.
However, Mattie did convince me to use the dish cloths and towels and wow, am I glad he did. They are so thick and fluffy! Incredibly absorbent and just abrasive enough to be nice and "scrubby".
I am so tickled with them!
So I am using them....and using them.....and using them.....and I can't tell you how sweet it is.
I hope the lap blankets we made work out as well for them! It certainly is cold enough this winter for anything warm to be welcome.
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They're so pretty! I would have trouble using them too.
thank you for using them and in a way you are using the rugs, you sit on them!!!! You took great pictures. When you wear out the towels, let me know and I'll make you more.
Fred Thanks!!! Glad you are enjoying the towels!! I use the lap robe all of the time.
Love ya
Matt
I was also told "Use them!" It took some convincing, but I am using mine, and I am enjoying their beauty several times each day. They are awesome (way better than store-bought)!
Nice weaving! The Bossman's aunt weaves things like that (saddleblankets too)and we hoard them. It's amazing how long they last even if you DON'T hoard them:)
Now that is what I call GREAT GIFTS. Do use them and add your love and good memories to them as they wear.
I will say once more THESE ITEMS ARE AWESOME!!
Agreed, that precious things are difficult to "use" for obvious reasons but using good "tools" makes any job easier.
I'm standing first in line to put my request/order in. Yeah that's me that's first in line.
Beautiful stuff.
Beautiful! My step-dad does woodturning and I use his hand turned deerhorn pens everyday. ( I have three so far..)
very nice. the best gifts are homemade. :-)
Wow! You're a lucky duck. I love handmade things too, and antiques, both have stories.
That's a great way to make a house a home, and to spend time ... not whittle away the time, but weave it.
Such wonderful gifts......the weaving is just beautiful.
I know it's hard to use them but you think of the giver with love every time you do :)
Dani, thanks for understanding
Lisa, thank you for being kind enough to make them. If you want your business contact info on here I will put it on. I didn't want to do it without asking, but I will
Matt...ditto what I told Lisa...and I love you too
Kristen, aren't they neat!?? I love them
Linda, the looms awe me! The idea of actually making fabric is awe-inspiring as well...so cool!!
Nita, thanks
Earl, I am so tickled with them!
Steve, so send me your address already!!
Ed, pens!! That sounds so neat! My dad carves and my mom paints and both brothers make wonderful things (other brother makes incredible furniture, some of which I am blessed to own) so I am very, very lucky.
Ericka, they really are
Teri, I'll bet that is why I love them so much...the stories...I have been telling myself stories since I was born...
Robert, I like that! Well said.
Deb, that is a good way to look at it...I will
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