Tantai Jin Apologist

Another rug I made, this one in 2018. Ridiculously colourful as whoever decorated my flat had an obsession with beige (though they’ve added some browns & whites for ‘variety’) & I needed to cancel the blandness out.

( Progress pics )

I actually kept note of time & materials on this one.

I bought the canvas for cheap on ebay & started work on the border more than a year before I did anything with it. Then I got a VR headset & decided I needed something to mark a play area so I didn’t wander too far & trip over the coffee table or some shit. And that gave me the kick up the arse I needed to start working on it again, & after a year of no progress I finished it in two months. I also had to ship the wool from Germany because Hobbycraft stopped selling it after I'd bought my first batch & I wasn't going to undo all my work up to that point.

Dimensions: 2m x 90cm

Materials: 38 balls of MyBoshi No.1 (196 Schwarz x 5, 163 Violett x 3, 159 Saphir x 3, 150 Wolke x 3, 158 Meerblau x 2, 184 Neongrün x 3, 113 Lowenzahn x 4, 181 Neonorange x 3, 132 Signalrot x 3, 135 Bordeaux x 3, 162 Magenta x 2, 142 Rose, x 2, 161 Candy Purpur x 2)

Approx cost of materials: £155 (not counting €20 or so for the final 2 batches of wool)

Time: 121 hours