Unbelievable, but Florida thrift stores are a good source of old Pendleton shirts and skirts. You would think that moving to Florida, northerners would have tossed the winter clothes before setting off to the sunny south.
If you do find that prefect shirt or skirt, take it apart and wash it in a cold water wash with detergent. You can dry the wool pieces on the gentle cycle in a drier. That old Pendleton fabric holds up very well and makes good rug wool.
If you find a good selection of shirts you may wish to work a sampler of how the wool will look worked as in the chair pad for Kerry below:
I am making stair treads for our back stairs and have made a number of sampler chair pads with the intention of seeing how the various Pendleton plaids work up. Kerry is our labradoodle always with her tongue hanging our waiting for a treat. Chair pad samplers are useful and a work up quickly.
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