Crochet Rugs: 7 Pretty Crochet Patterns For Your Sweet Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542958561)

Crochet Rugs

7 Pretty Crochet Patterns For Your Sweet Home

This book contains eight amazing crochet rug patterns to make your home-sweet-home colorful and creative. Crochet is not just for doilies and dishcloths. It's wonderful to see how these same traditional patterns, made on a bigger scale, can transform into the perfect rug design. Mimic your grandma's rag rugs by turning cut up T-shirts into recycled yarn or make an original shag rug shaped like a heart. Some of the topics covered include:

• Rectangular rugs
• Circular and oval rugs
• Motif rugs
• How to make and dye T-shirt yarn
• Where to buy recycled and up-cycled yarn
• Non-slip techniques for rugs
• Front and back loop stitches
• Crab stitch
• Crochet loop stitch
• Fringes and picot edging

Almost any crochet technique can be adapted to make a rug, but some ideas work better than others, so follow the patterns' suggestions carefully until you find your own methods. Each pattern is created by a crochet expert based on their own techniques and experience, with links to tutorials and more instructions throughout. Everything you need to get started making beautiful crochet rugs for your home is right here.