The true question was -- "To Sharpie or NOT to Sharpie.





It did take several nights of patiently making mark after mark after mark to complete the rug. Basically, the rug already has the pattern woven into it. It is simply a matter or evolving the pattern into a design. There are two types of weave on the rug, alternating squares like a checkerboard. One of the squares has 4 little thread lines. I simply traced the 4 little lines to make each black sqaure. Then, the squares and rectangles were elongated on a diagonal to fill in the design. The project in total probably took 10-12 hours.





Luckily, I had a friend. Every time I grabbed the marker and laid down on the carpet,

bebe grabbed his coloring book and crayons and started to work with me.

Nothing like joint craft time to bond Mama and bebe, eh?



