How To Crochet: 7 Crochet Rugs For Your Sweet Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781976486807)

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