REVERSIBLE RUG
Reading edition
Material: 6 skeins Cream rug yarn 6 skeins Red Brown rug yarn crochet hook size G
Finished rug approximately 19″ by 38″
Directions:
With Red Brown Ch. 72.
Row 1: 1 double croc. st. in 3rd. ch. st. from hook—1 double croc. st. in each st. across ch.—Ch. 3 turn.
Rows 2—5: 1 double croc. st. in each st. across. Ch. 3 to turn each row.
Row 6: Using Cream (work over the Red Brown yarn). Just lie flat along your work and go along as usual. Put 1 double croc. st. in each st. across—ch. 3 turn. Tie off Cream yarn.
Row 7: Using Red Brown yarn—1 double croc. in each st. across. Ch. 3 to turn each row.
Make 43 rows in this manner.
Repeat row 6—using Cream for the stripe.
Using Red Brown put 5 more rows. (1 double croc. st. in each st. across row, ch. 3 to turn each row.) Tie off yarn.
Repeat this piece starting with light color and putting the stripe in dark.
Join the two pieces together with sc. stitches evenly spaced around the outside using both colors alternating 1 sc. one color, 1 sc. of next color—put 3 scs. in each corner to turn the corner.
Fringe: 1¼ loop recommended.
Attach yarn to one end of rug—using double strand one light and one dark—with croc. hook pull both strands of yarn through the 1st. sc. st. and pull out to a 1¼ in. loop. Separate the two strands of yarn and bring one in front of the two loops. Pull snug and repeat across row. Do the other end of rug the same way. Photo on Page 5.
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