These are rugs I wove for my friend, Joan. She and her husband totally remodeled their house with new hardwood flooring throughout, new kitchen cabinets and miles of granite countertops. I was a bit nervous undertaking this project. Joan is a fantastic quilter and a fine designer with a keen color sense. The weaving was far from carefree since I worried about squaring the design on two different-sized rugs. And, of course, I had two sets of standards to live up to -- hers and mine.
This project took a very long time to complete because things just kept coming up. We travelled, had two sets of house guests, our brand new washing machine malfunctioned and flooded an area of our house which included my studio, and my husband suffered an attack of kidney stones. After two trips to the hospital, he is feeling better. But the water stains remain on my carpeting and Whirlpool has not been exactly comsumer-friendly. How I miss my 31 year-old Maytag. Alas!
In the end, the rugs turned out well and Joan is very happy with them and has requested another one in a different pattern for another room. Let's hope this one doesn't take nearly as long to weave.
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