esprit de l'escalier: My monster muppet rug

Definition

[es-pree de less-ka/-iay] (idiom) A witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations defines esprit de l'escalier as, "An untranslatable phrase, the meaning of which is that one only thinks on one's way downstairs of the smart retort one might have made in the drawing room."

My monster muppet rug

On Tuesday night I finished my first rug in weaving class. Now, I sort of jumped ahead of some of the other students, because instead starting on a loom from scratch, I jumped on a loom that was already set up with the warp, which saved me a lot of time. I used loopers, which are cotton loops that are leftovers from making socks. (Remember those potholder looms from childhood? Like those loops. Only I tied them all together before using them in the loom as the weft.) That made the rug sort of like a rag rug.

I didn't quite know how long the rug was going to end up; I thought about 6 or 7 feet. I just kept going til I ran out of loopers. Turned out it is over 11 and a half feet long... yep! It's gigantic. Luckily I have a long hallway in my apartment! As I was weaving it, I kept joking that it was my muppety rug, since it's mostly purple and blue. Now it's my monster muppet rug! Here are some photos, taken by my friend Esther, as I was taking it off the loom.

Me cutting it off the loom.