I had been thinking for a while about where and how to get a rug for the family room. The main considerations were that it had to be colorful, without an overly busy design, and non-scratchy. I decided that I wanted to make a rug, and I worked out a color scheme--based on some of our wedding pictures that were taken at the beach--and a general design. I even started pricing materials.
Then my husband came home with at least two yards' worth of Ikea decorating fabric (heavy cotton). The design, from a few years ago, is modernist with Alpine motifs; I call it the "drowning goats" fabric because there are two swimming goats in the design, and I am not fond of goats.
I noticed that the fabric colors were almost exactly the same as the colors I had chosen for the rug. So I started using it as a rug. Later on, before its first washing, I stitched around the edges with a zigzag stitch, to keep it from fraying.
Since it is cotton, and I am terrible at stain removal, it has picked up some dirt that didn't wash out. But I like it anyway, for the color that it adds to the room.
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