No. 5 – Rag rug
This one tallies nicely with the ‘Trying a new thing’ challenge on Useless Beauty’s blog.
It’s about 4 years since I bought my massive crochet hooks (the biggest is about 15mm) and, shamefully, I’ve just never really found the time or inclination to shred fabric into yarn (fabric/yarn = farn? Portmanteau’s pretty big in our house – we enjoy chickle* sandwiches) in order to try it out properly.
So with Susie’s challenge I thought I’d finally give it a go and lo and behold!
It's not quite finished yet but you get the general idea...
PURPLE!!! I’ve still got a bit to do but I’m quite happy with it so far. The Man says it looks ‘very Ikea’. Perhaps he’s hoping that it’s inclusion somewhere in the house will precipitate an appearance of tidyness as depicted in Ikea catalogues. I hope he’s not holding his breath.
Cutting the fabric: easy peasy! Fold over so that the selvedge edges rest against each other (I bought new fabric for this, which annoys my ‘green side’ but now I’m a bit familiar with it I’ll try recycling something next time) and cut all the way from the fold to about an inch from the selvedge. Next, cut through the selvedge on alternate strips so that you end up with a continuous strip of fabric (it didn’t make sense to me until I was actually cutting it).
Ball up said strip of fabric.
Crochet as you would with wool, although it’s a bit tricky to loop it through your fingers (like I do, it seems to help with tension)
I don’t know where I’m going to put it when it’s finished. But I may make another; I fear this is the beginning of another craft obsession…
*chickle = cheese and pickle
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