New Year’s goal - Use up one bin of cotton craft yarn. Make rugs with it.

I want a half circle shape rug with post stitches. I think I can convert this pattern easily into post stitches to get the shape that I want.

I have way more yarn than I think this pattern will use. Not sure how I am going to combine the different colors yet. We will see how it goes.

I found the yardage for the size balls/skeins of Sugar’n Cream on the yarn page Sugar’n Cream yarn

I am holding 4 worsted weight yarns together.

UK -> US stitches = tr -> dc

The worst thing so far? No turning chain or instructions on how to do the first stitch of each row. You just DO IT.

Begin/end stitches
I am using ch 2 as my first stitch. After a few rounds of t-ch 2 as the first stitch, I have changed to t-ch 3. The rug was cupping.

The first stitch of each row is ch 3 - to count as the first stitch in the instructions. No matter what you do, you have to convert the instructions given to include the 1st stitch. Which is the main reason that this pattern is getting a lower mark for clarity.

After a great deal of experimenting. I have chosen to do a t-ch 2 + dc in the first stitch. The t-ch 2 does not count as a stitch. The last stitch is a dc2tog into the first dc and the top of the ch 2. This keeps the stitch count correct, the sides straight and eliminates large gaps along the edges.

General comments
I gave up on changing some of the rows to post stitches. It pulled the rug in funny ways.

I am using only 4 strands and a 9 mm hook because this pattern didn’t work right with 5 strands. It was too much for the pattern.

I use a stitch marker in the 2nd stitch of each increase. In the next row, this will be the stitch that has the increase.

This rug seems to be narrow (in depth) and wide. I think it will be wider than a regular doorway. But that’s okay. My rug is going to be bigger than the pattern anyway because I am using 4 strands together.

I want my rug to be big enough that you step ON it when you walk thru the door - not over it.

25 rows of the potpourri ombre (beige)

The general idea is 3 rows of the purple and then 2 rows across the bottom. Not sure I have enough purple to do this though.

Top Border
2 rows of purple and the last row of flo-hdc

Bottom Border
I added this to straighten the edge. I added one row of sc in the beige, because the beige on the beige showed up less stark than the purple.

Then 2 rows of sc in the purple worked into the smooth line of beige sc.

Dimensions
height - 25 inches
width - 50 inches

Original pattern dimensions
14 x 28 inches

Yep, mine is a lot larger. I cannot imagine how thin the original pattern rug was.