I started this project probably about 6 or 7 years ago, long before Royal was ever in the picture. Usually if I start a project and I stop working on it, it kinda just sits there and never really gets done. I could show you a couple knitting projects that have ended up that way. This little braided rug, though, was a Martha Stewart idea. I found it in her magazine a long, long time ago and I remember thinking how easy I thought it would be and I’d be able to whip it up in a snap. I went and bought 3 towels, used my mom’s quilting tools to cut it into strips, hand sewed all the strips together, and began braiding the strips together, the tricky part with the braiding was each of the 3 strips had to folded into 3rds, so that the edges were hidden and then braided together. I did maybe about half of the braiding of the towels, and then that’s where it stopped. I got tired of folding and braiding, and untangling the strips and then more folding and braiding, it was taking forever. So, I ended up leaving it at my moms house and figured I’d work on it there on the weekends when I was visiting, since it was kind of a messy project (little towel lint was all over the place), and it got put in a bag and that bag got put in a closet and that was that for the past years. Then, Royal up and decides that we’re moving to Kansas, and mom starts going through my stuff at her house for things that were mine and that I needed to take with me. Low and behold, she found the towel rug, and it got put in our cars for the trip to Wichita. I told myself I was going to finish it, as my yarn supply is growing low, and it’s sunny outside, so I could work on it outside. Well, last night, I finally finished it. After evenings and evenings of braiding and more braiding, I thought the hard part was over when I finished that. Then I had Royal find me some fishing line so I could start sewing my braids into a big circle. Oh, my poor poor fingers. I have blisters on my finger tips from pushing that big ole needle with fishing line through all my braids. But hallelujia! After evenings and evenings of sewing and more sewing and more sewing, last night I finally finished it! Here it is, my own little braided rug, it only took me like 6 years or so…I don’t think I’ll ever make another. :)