one rope mat done.....

This fabric came from my sister. It was once a curtain in her house. She thought I could use it for something...

Well I had that rope to cover....so I cut strips of it and started wrapping. I tried straight-of -grain first, then switched to a bias cut. I don't know if there really was any difference in how it wrapped. The strips were 1 inch wide....and about 22 inches long.

I curled the start of it, them sewed an X on it, this was to hold in place while I started sewing around and around. I would wrap and sew, wrap and sew. A clothes pin held the fabric in place. 

It grew and grew. It's final size is about 12 inches across. I wanted to sew something else on that machine, so I figured it was at a good stopping point.

Then...

It didn't want to lay flat. It received a heavy dose of steam and heat from the iron and that seemed to do the trick.

Flat as a pancake!

It reminds me of the old braided rugs that my grandma had in her house.