The Rug Project

I'm embarking on another crochet project. This one is a rug to go in "my" room at my parents' house. Over the summer I painted the room yellow and helped my mom pick out fabric for the curtains, so I'm going to make the rug to go along with the color scheme. Here is a swatch of the curtain fabric:

I really love the fabric but I was worried about finding yarn that was the right color. For the particular rug pattern I chose, I needed 3 different colors. So I journeyed to Hobby Lobby, swatch in hand, and eventually found the perfect combination. Usually I use Caron Simply Soft because it's so much softer than the cheaper yarns, but for a rug you want something more sturdy and a little bit stiffer (softer yarns are slightly more pliable). So the Red Heart Super Saver it was. Here are the colors I ended up with:

I was really excited to find the last one-- I wanted a blue like the seafoam/turquoise that is in the fabric pattern but couldn't find it at HobLob, and then I saw that color mix skein. It has the tan, greens, brown, AND a good color blue.

I have to crochet the rug with an enormous needle and holding three strands of yarn together at the same time. I haven't ever done that before, but it's actually pretty easy and makes the project bigger faster. Here's Scout enjoying the progress so far:

 

More to come!

Just you wait

Oh my God, my back is killing me. I have a sneaking suspicion it has to do with sitting on the floor for hours hunched over yesterday. The fruit of that labor will eventually find its way onto the blog, but for now has to be kept under wraps...

Rubber Soul is my favorite Beatles album, followed by Sgt. Pepper. Just to give you an idea of what I've been putting thought into lately.

The latest crochet project

I put my Christmas break to good use and crocheted this little number:

(click for a closer look...)

The pattern is from a book called Crochet that Fits and it did live up to its name. Like any crochet book, you have to separate the wheat from the chaff, but this is some nice wheat. It was really easy to do, just tedious--like all crochet projects tend to become--and it actually looks decent on. The only other piece of clothing I have ever crocheted was a sixties dress pattern that I had to amend as I went along, which did not turn out nearly as well. If I get really ambitious, I'll consider making a post with me actually in the shirt...