Sorry to leave you hanging so long after my last post, but it took me a few days to finish this:

Not because it was a lot of hard work, but because I kept running out of green fabric.  And for a girl who has been building a fabric stash for close to 20 years – that’s saying something.   I estimate there is about 20 yards of fabric in this puppy.

This is the project I’ve been working on after stalking my friend Jennifer’s Etsy favorites.  When I saw that she favorited these rugs I knew I had to make one for my new sewing room.  So with Jennifer’s help we figured out how to make it, and now I’m going to share it with you.

The first thing you’ll need is lots and lots of fabric, which you’ll need to cut into 2” wide strips.

On each end of the strips you’re going to make a cut about 2” wide.  I folded the ends up and made my cut.

You’ll then start forming the ‘yarn’ by joining each of the strips together by inserting one end of a strip into the cut that you just made in a second strip.

You’ll then bring the opposite end of the first strip through the hole on end that you just inserted into the second strip.  You’ll be forming a loop and pulling it tight.

If you’ve done it right it should look like this.  If you can’t figure it out just tie a knot.  I found it easier to cut and join as I went instead of cutting all my strips at once.  (and also because I went thought all the fabric I thought I would need in no time at all).

Using a size Q needle, I chained 6.

and then formed a circle by bringing the ends together and using a slip chain to join the ends together.

Now you’ll Double Crochet 12 chains around the circle you just created.  Don’t forget to mark where you started with a safety pin.

For the second round I did 2 double crochets in the first chain and 1 in the second, then 2 in the third and 1 in the fourth, until I went all the way around.

For the third round I used 2 –1-1 and the fourth round I did 2-1-1-1.

At this point the project started to curl up so I did another round of 2-1-1-1, but if your project seems to still be laying flat then try 2-1-1-1-1.

After a while you’ll just know when to increase and when to decrease.   To increase you’ll need to crochet twice in one chain, to decrease (which you’ll do if you increase too much and your project get’s waffely) you’ll skip chains.

My rug got pretty waffely so for the last three rounds I did 1 double crochet to 1 chain and that seemed to flatten it out.

Had I not kept running out of fabric I estimate I could have completed this project in about 2 nights.  But because I used up my stash AND the store’s stash of green fabric, I had to wait till today before I could buy more.

To end it I did a single crochet and tied it off.  Not sure if I did it the way the professionals do it, but it works.

The Fat Cat not sure what to think of this rug on his floor, but I’m sure by tomorrow I’ll find him snuggled up on it.

Happy hooking!