CHUNKY RUG
This is not just a rug, it’s under-foot heating! Helen Smith’s design is food for your soles
If you are looking to use your hooky skills to enhance your room, why not start from the ground up and treat your floor to a crochet creation like this eyecatching bobbly rug.
NOTES
Rug is worked in rows throughout. Change colour on the final yrh of row and fasten off previous colour.
You can make a smaller Rug by working a foudation chain of 53 with 51 stitches in Row 1. This would give you a width of approx 70cm. Then work the repeat section to the desired length.
Any super chunky cotton yarn could be used in this pattern. This will affect the final measurements and yarn quantities required.
RUG
Using Yarn B, ch83.
Row 1 (RS) Tr in fourth ch from hook and each ch across, turn. [81 sts]
Row 2 Ch1 (does not count as a st throughout), tr in each st across, turn.
Change to Yarn A.
Row 3 Ch1, htr in first 3 sts, (bo in next st, htr in next 4 sts) 15 times, bo in next st, htr in final 2 sts, turn.
Change to Yarn B.
Row 4 Ch1, dc in each st across, turn. Change to Yarn A.
Row 5 Ch1, tr in first st, skip 1 st, (3tr in next st, skip 2 sts) 26 times, 2tr in final st, turn.
Row 6 Ch1, tr in first st, skip 1 st, 2tr in space before 3-tr group, 3tr in next 25 sps between groups, 2tr in sp before final st, tr in last st, turn. Change to Yarn B.
Row 7 Ch1, tr in first st, (skip 1 st, 2tr in next st) across to end, turn.
Row 8 Ch1, tr in first st, ch1, skip 1 st, 2tr in sp before next st, (ch1, skip 2 sts, 2tr in space before next st) across to final st, 2tr in final st, turn.
Change to Yarn A.
Rows 9-10 Ch1, tr in each stitch to the end, turn. Rows 11-81 Repeat Rows 3-10 ending on a Row 9 repeat. Use the foll colour sequence: *1 row Yarn B, 1 row Yarn A, 2 rows Yarn B, 2 rows Yarn A, 2 rows Yarn B, 1 row Yarn A, 1 row Yarn B, 2 rows Yarn A, 2 rows Yarn B, 2 rows Yarn A; rep from * to end.
Row 82 Ch1, dc in each st across.
Fasten off and weave in ends.
FRINGE
Cut 82 lengths of yarn in each colour, 30cm long. Using 1 strand of each colour held together, attach a fringe to each alternate stitch across short edges of Rug (41 fringes each edge).