Craft Project: T-Shirt Rag Rug
Using old tee shirt scraps I used to make a t-shirt quilt, I made a crocheted rag rug. My rug is 40 inches in diameter.
Approximate Time: 10 hours.
Supplies:
- rotary cutter
- scissors
- sewing machine
- thread
- cutting mat
- crochet hook size "Q"
- tee shirts
- plastic quilters ruler
- you need around 12 tee shirts
Instructions:
- Cut 1 1/2 inches wide strips from tee shirt scraps. Sew the ends together.
- Roll up the strips into balls.
- Chain 4. Join with a slip stitch.
- Chain one and single crochet 12 stitches in the chain 4 circle.
- When you get to the beginning of the first row, join with a slip stitch and chain one.
- Crochet two single crochets in each stitch and join with a slip stitch when you get to the beginning of the second row. You should have 24 stitches.
- Join with a slip stitch. Chain 2.
- Double crochet in first stitch and 2 DC in the next. Crochet in this pattern all around and join with a slip stitch as before.
- Continue increasing at regular intervals for each row. Continue around as big as you want until you are out of strips.
- Slip stitch into the first stitch of the last row you did. Cut the strip. Fold it back under a loop and hand sew so you cannot see it.
By Little Suzy from Millbury, OH
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04/06/2011
This is great, could even be used as a Christmas Tree skirt!
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04/06/2011
Looks awesome, I have been saving shirts up. lol Family calls me a hoarder.
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04/05/2011
Great idea suzy! I bet it's soft also and what a good way to use unwanted t-shirts. Bravo!
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