AUTUMN RUG 24″ x 36″
Reading edition
Material: 4 skeins forest green rug yarn; 6 skeins avocado rug yarn; 6 skeins aqua rug yarn; 5 skeins yellow rug yarn; 2 skeins maize rug yarn; 1 skein orange rug yarn. Size J crochet hook.
Directions: Use double strand of yarn—1 strand avocado, 1 strand forest green—Ch. 50—sc. in 2nd ch. from hook and in each st. of ch. Ch. 1 turn.
Row 1: 1 loop st. in each st. of row. Ch. 1 turn.
Row 2: 1 sc. st. in each st. across. Ch. 1 turn.
Rows 3—11: Repeat row 1 & 2—(1 row sc. and 1 row loops). Ch. 1 to turn each row.
Row 12: 1 sc. in 1st. 20 sts. Tie on aqua. With aqua and avocado work over forest green. Put 1 sc. in next 9 sts. Drop the aqua (let it hang from your work). Pick up forest green. Using forest green and avocado, put 1 sc. in next 20 sts. Ch. 1 turn.
Row 13: sc. back across row—Ch. 1 turn. (Picking up the aqua and working with the avocado as you did in last row.) Ch. 1 turn.
Row 14: 1 loop st. in next 18 sts. Pick up aqua and working over the forest green using aqua and avocado, put 1 loop st. in next 13 sts. Drop the aqua, pick up forest green. With forest green and avocado put 1 loop in each st. to end of row.—Ch. 1 turn.
Rows 15—24: Work in pattern, watching the chart for the number of added avocado and aqua sts. in each row. Until in row 25 the aqua and avocado go all the way across rug. Drop forest green.
Row 26: You pick up yellow—Do this the same way as the avocado and aqua watching the chart for the sts.
Row 37: The yellow and aqua go all the way across row on one side (so you will drop the avocado when you pick up the yellow and pick it up on the next row back.)
Row 39: Pick up maize (follow chart). You are now working with olive, aqua, yellow, maize, as they appear on chart.
Row 48: Pick up orange (follow chart). You are now working with olive, aqua, yellow, maize, orange.
Row 56: Carry forest green all the way across row, working over it as necessary as it is used on both ends of row.
Row 58: Pick up forest green again. Just follow the chart, each square is a st. The colors are marked with the stitch line of each patch. Do 76 rows in all to complete rug. Watch the chart closely.
Border: Using single strand of forest green single croc. evenly spaced all around outside of rug, putting 3 sc. in each corner. Tie off yarn.
Fringe: Put 2 in. looped fringe on each end.
Fringe instructions on page 44.
Photo on Page 30.
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See visual chart on page 41.
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