Mark's Rag Rug

My last catch up post for now is the rag rug that I did for Mark made out of some of our old bedsheets.  I spent a good portion of this last typhoon making strips out of our old sheets.  Then I crocheted them in a round to make a rug.  This is what I have for now, but I will probably add to it with the other sheets that match when we are done with them.  This is most of two queen sized fitted sheets.  I think the worst part of this project was definitely cutting the red sheets, they wouldn't tear like the black ones did.  Also, actually crocheting the strips was a bit hard on my hand and my bad shoulder.  I will be cutting all future fabric strips a bit more narrow. 

For those interested, the strips were about 2 in thick and I used a 12.0mm crochet hook.  I started with a chain of 6 (for the thickness of the strips I would recommend doing more st in the starting ch as I have a little bit of a problem getting it to stay flat in the middle), joined in the round and DC 8 times into the ring.  Rd 2: 2 DC in ea st around.  Should have 16st.  Rd 3:  2DC then 1 DC around. Should have 24 st.  Rd 4:  2DC then 1 DC in the next two st.  Should have 32 st.  Anyway, you get the point.  Every round you increase the number of single stitches inbetween the doubles.  If you find it isn't laying flat at any point then you can simply add stitches.  If it is starting to "pucker" then add less stitches. 

I don't know that I said any of that right.  If you have questions, just comment and I will attempt to explain it.