T-shirt recycling update: Floka-tee rug

This post actually answers two different previous ones: one about latch-hooking, and one about recycling my old shirts. My current project is...you guessed it! Latch-hooking my old t-shirts! I needed a new rug for in front of the bathroom sink, and I've got a car trip in front of me, so it seemed to be the thing to do.

Here's my practice section:




You can see why I call it Floka-tee. It looks like a Flokati wool rug, only made with t-shirts!

I didn't have time to hunt for latch-hooking canvas, so I'm trying burlap with a quilting hoop. I kind of wanted something a little less stiff anyway, because I'm hoping to be able to throw it in the washer.

I will probably sew on some sort of backing at the end, but here's what the reverse looks like:




I think for my rug I will do several free-form sections of different colors of white, off-white, and light gray (my favorite color scheme).

I can't wait to play around with this more. You know what would be super cute? Little stuffed-animal shaggy "monsters"!