After making the little gold and yellow mat for the cabinet in the dining room, I decided to make a round red rug for the front entrance. I decided to throw away the worn out mat I paid $1.99 at Army & Navy about 3 years ago. I know! $1.99 for a little rug you wipe your feet on. Amazing. It’s like shopping in the Wild West over at A&N. I think you can find penny candy there, too.
I’m freestyle crocheting this rug. I’ve been ripping up all the dark red fabric I have in my stash. I did it this afternoon during a perfect movie for making noisy ripping sounds – a surprisingly disappointing Public Enemies. Oof. Sadly the dialogue was so terrible and corny, the rrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiip of the fabric was a welcome relief. And the ending? P.U. – that was the cornball icing on the cheeseball movie. But, if you enjoy a lot of tommy gun fire, I definitely recommend it. And the ripping of the fabric really didn’t take away from the rounds of shots.
After all the ripping, I connected the fabric pieces together and just started single crocheting in a round. I used the same technique I learned a few years ago at a crochet course I took. The instructor kept telling us to “put the crochet hook where it wants to go.” Very Zen instructions. Eventually it will be a great big circle. Right now it’s not a very big circle, but it will be once I get back to it. I think I’ll add a black border to finish it off.
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Oooh very cool! I can’t wait to see the finished mat!
Ahh man, I seriously want a big one of these for the babies room!
I love it! It’s looking very nice!
And thanks for the info about that movie. I’ll be sure NOT to watch it!
Thanks, guys. I’ll keep working on it! And Stacey, did you say babIES? W00T! Stacey’s having more than one baby! Ha!
No problem, Denise – I’ll keep up the crochet-friendly movie reviews.
Congradulations Stacey!
That is a gorgeous mat, Carol. I admire all your hard work, cutting your own rug.