Create your own designer rugs with just a large crochet hook and a bag of rags! This book shows you how to turn colorful fabric scraps into warm and cozy accents for your home. You’ll be amazed at how easy and fun it is to make beautiful, durable rugs using inexpensive materials and supplies.
With gorgeous color photographs and clear, straightforward instructions, author Suzanne McNeill presents 18 lovely projects to make with strips of fabric. Crafters of all ages and skill levels will enjoy using her simple crochet techniques. Discover how to update this traditional craft with endless possibilities of color and fabric combinations. Whether the pattern is square, rectangular, hexagonal, round, oval, or heart-shaped, each custom rag rug you make is sure to become an instant heirloom treasure.
Age Range: 10 and up
Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing; Revised edition (August 1, 2014)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 10.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 0.3 ounces
From the Back Cover
It’s easy and fun to make your own rugs
Create your own designer rugs with just a large crochet hook and a bag of rags! This book shows you how to turn colorful fabric scraps into warm and cozy accents for your home. You’ll be amazed at how easy and fun it is to make beautiful, durable rugs using inexpensive materials and supplies.
With gorgeous color photographs and clear, straightforward instructions, author Suzanne McNeill presents 18 lovely projects to make with strips of fabric. Crafters of all ages and skill levels will enjoy using her simple crochet techniques. Discover how to update this traditional craft with endless possibilities of color and fabric combinations. Whether the pattern is square, rectangular, hexagonal, round, oval, or heart-shaped, each custom rag rug you make is sure to become an instant heirloom treasure.
- 18 projects for making beautiful, durable rugs
- Create warm and cozy accents for your home
- Great ways to recycle rags, leftover fabric, and old clothes
- Simple easy-to-learn crochet techniques
- Square, rectangular, hexagonal, round, oval, and heart-shaped patterns
Reviews
Reviews
"I really am enjoying this book, i have sorted thru some fabrics and my daughter and i made a rag rug, it came out nice for the first one ."
- Mary Redmon
"A great book full of wonderful ideas to add zip to your crochet rugs!"
- Sewpippy
"This is one fun book. It's easy to understand and I can't wait to start making rag rugs."
- L. Bartolotta
"It's a crochet book, right? So in the first place, that makes it a 5! But it really has great patterns, and lovely photos. Yep. Happy about my purchase."
- Annie Chevron
"So easy to follow and so fun to make. Good thing to do with old sheets and scraps of your quilting or sewing fabric."
- A. C.
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About the Author
Winner of the Craft and Hobby Association's Industry Achievement Award, Suzanne McNeill has been called "the Trendsetter" of the arts and crafts industry. Dedicated to hands-on creativity, she constantly tests, experiments, and invents something new and fun. She is a designer, artist, columnist, TV personality, publisher, art instructor, author, and lover of everything hands-on.
Suzanne has authored at least 230 craft & hobby books, sharing her passion for creating and making crafts accessible for others. She is the woman behind Design Originals, a publishing company dedicated to all things fun and creative. She founded Design Originals in 1986 and was the guiding creative spirit there for more than 25 years. Design Originals merged with Fox Chapel Publishing in 2011.
Suzanne’s creative vision has placed her books on top of the trends for decades. She was one of the first authors to spot the emerging “scrapbooking” trend, and was influential in kicking off the huge scrapbooking movement. Now Suzanne is at the forefront of another growing trend with Zentangle®. She is a leading champion of this incredibly popular mindful drawing method, and has popularized the phenomenon with others in the industry. A Certified Zentangle Teacher, she has authored 17 Zentangle books.
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