Vintage Crocheted Rugs: 15 Easy Patterns for the Home

By Beatrice Ridgewell and American Thread Comapny

In Vintage Crocheted Rugs: 15 Easy Patterns for the Home, you’ll find rug patterns from 1954, when the booklet from the American Thread Company this ebook is based on was originally published. Patterns include:

    •    Home Sweet Home Rug
    •    Dot Dot Dash Rug
    •    Young Modern Rug
    •    Biarritz Rug
    •    The New Granny Rug
    •    Provincial Rug
    •    Happy the Clown Rug
    •    Country Home Rug
    •    Cliff Dweller Rug
    •    Regimental Stripes Rug
    •    Round and Round Rug
    •    Day and Night Rug
    •    Pinwheel Rug
    •    Contemporary Rug
    •    Santa Fe Modern Rug

Suitable for beginning and experienced crocheters, these patterns make for easy and fun projects to bring a vintage flair to your home, or gifts to wow your friends and family.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Beatrice Ridgewell
• Release date: Sep 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9788834191309

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Vintage Crocheted Rugs: 15 Easy Patterns for the Home

By The American Thread Company and Beatrice Ridgewell

Edited by Beatrice Ridgewell

Copyright © 2019 All Rights Reserved

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Crochet Abbreviations

Home Sweet Home Rug

Dot Dot Dash Rug

Young Modern Rug

Biarritz Rug

The New Granny Rug

Provincial Rug

Happy the Clown Rug

Country Home Rug

Cliff Dweller Rug

Regimental Stripes Rug

Round and Round Rug

Day and Night Rug

Pinwheel Rug

Contemporary Rug

Aunt Lydia’s Punch Needle and Hooked Rug Advertisement

Santa Fé Modern Rug

Editor's Note: This vintage public domain publication from 1954 references Aunt Lydia's Heavy Rug Yarn, which is a discontinued product. Nearly any heavy-weight or chunky yarn of your choosing will make a suitable replacement. If you wish to create a true vintage project from these patterns, you may be able to locate old stock of Aunt Lydia's Rug Yarn on the internet.

STAR RUG BOOK No. 106 25¢

CROCHETED

RUGS

The American Thread Company

260 W. BROADWAY, NEW YORK 13, N. Y.

Printed in U.S.A.

CROCHET ABBREVIATIONS

* (Asterisk) Indicates that the instructions immediately following are to be repeated the given number of times plus the original.

** Are used in the same way.

Home Sweet Home

(illustrated on cover)

WOVEN

Approximate Size 19 Inches x 30 Inches Without Fringe

Materials Required: AMERICAN THREAD COMPANY

AUNT LYDIA’S HEAVY RUG YARN, Article 235

10 skeins Red.

2 skeins White.

1 skein Black or colors desired.

Aluminum crochet hook size H.

With Red ch 72, d c in 4th st from hook, 1 d c in each remaining st of ch, turn.

2nd Row: Ch 3 (counts as 1 d c), 1 d c in each d c (69 d c), turn.

Repeat the 2nd row 53 times, then work a row of s c all around working 3 s c in each corner, join, cut yarn.

Cut 72 strands of White and 36 strands of Black long enough to leave 4 inches on each end for fringe. Thread 2 strands of White into a very large eyed tapestry needle, weave horizontally through 3rd row of d c’s weaving under 1st d c and over next d c, * under next d c and over next d c, repeat from * across