[Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs Susan

[Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]]

How did you put it together.  You have an extreamly long piece, 6 stitches wide, flat on one side, that is kind of curved under.  How do you stitch it together and when you do, does it close off the opening of the sides of the knitting, so it becomes a circle.  
Sure would be neet if they made a small enough cable to make a continuous tube.  Then wrap and stitch.  If you did not take it off the needles, you could add until your rug was as big as you wanted.
Could you do it in the thick cotton for better washing?
A lot of questions!

Terry P.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Roe [mailto:dogwoodfarm at verizon.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs Susan

When I did it, yes, I used stockenette with only 6 stitches.  I let the strip curl inward naturally, but did not close it, just knit and purl without joining.  I foundclosing the "tube" as I coiled allowed me to shift the edges to keep it from buldging as you turned the end corners.  You could just either keep knitting one very, very, long strip, adding pieces of colors"scrap yarn" as you finished different projects or kind of make your own variation of verigated strips.  I have done one with different shades of brown and another one of just one continueing strip in a verigated yarn that matched one of my bathrooms.

The color combinations are endless and you can even work it up like patchwork rag rugs, with random color changes along with short or longer strips as you went.

Susan R.
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
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Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs Susan


> Susan,
>
> Now this sounds interesting.  Did you use stockenette stitch and  how 
> many
> stitches did you cast on when you knitted this?
>
> Joyce  Kane
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