It is summer and the one thing I love about summer is color. Everything is so green and beautiful. It is so hard to be in a bad mood when the world is blossoming.
Another thing I love about summer is the time I have to crochet. I have just started to get into making rugs. My Doily Rug just sold and in honor of that I felt like I really had to replace it.
So I sat down and made some Rag yarn.
- Here is the tutorial to do so
- It is for a braided rug, but if you scroll down it tells you how to add fabric to create a long strand of yarn.
I used a twin sheet to get enough yarn to crochet about 3/4 of the way through my rug.- I would suggest to buy up a few sheets that coordinate. It is better to have too much than too little.
Use S Hook.
- make magic circle, hdc 8 into ring, join, ch 1.
- 2 hdc in each stitch around, join, ch 1.
- *2 hdc in next stitch, 1 hdc in next* repeat around, join, ch 1.
- *2 hdc in next stitch, 2 hdc in next* repeat around, join, ch 1.
- *2 hdc in next stitch, 3 hdc in next* repeat around, join, ch 1.
- *2 hdc in next stitch, 4 hdc in next* repeat around, join, ch 1.
- *2 hdc in next stitch, 5 hdc in next* repeat around, join, ch 1.
- *2 hdc in next stitch, 6 hdc in next* repeat around, join, ch 1.
- By now you should be seeing a pattern. You continue to increase until you get a rug the size you want.
- If your rug starts to get wavy unravel a row and skip to the next row (example: if on row 5 my rug starts to get wavy I would unravel and instead crochet row 6)
