Today we have a WINNER of our game and she is Theresa! Theresa I sent you an e-mail and I will need your address to send you your yarn and horseshoe hook!

We will be holding another game soon. Please come back and join in.

We are also going to hold a contest for ONLY customers at Amish Rugs and more. Once you buy something from my company your name will be in for the contest (for those of you who have already bought from us your name is included.) There will only be one winner. Further details will be released at a later date!

For everyone else today I am sharing a free hay twine project with you (if you don't have hay twine you can use a cotton type of rope or other like materials.)

Another FREE PROJECT FOR YOU ALL!!
What will you need for this project?
Hay twine and a chain or clip of some kind to attach to.


I took 9 strands of my newly blue dyed hay twine and put them in groups of 3's. Like so.



Here is a better picture of the chain I used.



I took group 1-2-3 and put it threw the end of the chain like so.




Now I took the working end of this twine and crossed back over in threw the chain. Like so.


If, the picture below doesn't help click here for a video.





If, you didn't pull it too tight you will have a loop open. Now take the working twine up and throw the loop to the end. Then pull tight! You can also come to the top part and back down threw that to make a real nice tight knot.

The first picture below is before you pull tight. The second is after you pull tight. Any pressure on this now will tighten it right up (So if you have a dog pulling you to walk the lead wont just fall apart)
You can put additional knots in it to make it that much tighter if you would like.



*Also note that the last above has the numbers group 3 2 1 in that order.

Now take 1 up and over (over number two. Take two to where one was) to the middle. It'll now be 3-1-2




Now take 3 up and over number one (take one to where 3 was.) It'll look like this now. 1-3-2



Now take number two up and over number 3. Now you will have 1-2-3.




Take 1 up and over 2 (2 goes where one was.) Like so.





Keep doing this same method over and over again (your next step would be to take 3 up and over 1. So, that would then be 2-3-1. Then your next step is 2 up and over 3- it then will be 3-2-1...) Keep doing this until you just have enough at the end to knot up.

These next set of pictures show you how I tied the bottom of the lead/leash.

These next two just show the rope some more (how long it is and what it looks like up close.)

Here are some pictures of the hay twine I was telling you all about earlier. I just love how the colors are coming out in this stuff.

The first one (wine colored) is going to be a planter (to hold plants..lol.. I believe you can click on the picture to get a bigger view of it.) I am going to make a few of these up (one for my mother and one for my husband's mom.)

The second picture is of a small but long dog leash or horse lead rope (I have instructions and lots of pictures of just how to I made it and I may put that on here for you all sometime in the future.)

It has come to my attention that all the video's I have on my sites are making it hard for some people with dial up to see my blog. I want everyone to be able to see it as well as see my free video's. What I am going to do is put links to where my video's are so it does not slow up my sites and so everyone can enjoy it. I'll start working on this late Monday 4-2-07.