Doll House Rug

While we were visiting grandparents in Georgia at Christmas, we took Yaya to the History Museum.  She had a few dollars that she was dying to spend on a souvenir, but there wasn't much in her price range for kids.  After refusing to let her buy a few items, she found a package of Spool Doodles hidden on the bottom shelf covered with dust.  It had no price on it, but she was begging me to let her buy it anyway.  I told her she would have to ask the docent what the price was before I would agree.  When he came back into the room, she pounced with her question.  He thought a second before saying, "Well, that's been there for years now.  How about $2?"  She eagerly handed over her money.

I thought she might be able to keep busy with this on our long drive home.  However, when we started out days later, she had already lost the main instructions, and I couldn't figure it out from the particular project instructions.  I found the instructions about a week after we got home, but we had other things to do and the Spool Doodles were momentarily forgotten.  I found them again earlier this week and decided to use some of my yarn to figure it out, so I could show Yaya how to do it later.  I started working last night while guarding the bedroom door to keep the girls from getting up at bedtime (we've been having a great struggle with this lately when Bumble discovered how to climb out of the crib).

So, I worked for 30 minutes in front of the door and continued while watching TV later in the evening.  After about 4 hours of labor, I managed to make a small dollhouse rug.  I imagine it beside a bed for cold winter mornings in the dollhouse.  Well, this is a pretty time consuming task and sometimes tricky to hook the loops, so I'm not sure how long Yaya will do this craft.  I guess we'll see.