Crocheted rag rug itself
I have a large and very diverse fabric warehouse. For the fabrics, which I have already often enough worked into projects and just want to "weghaben", and for the fabrics that are not great for sewing, but have nice colors, I have come up with something.
Also great to let the beloved but too tight favorite blouse or the somewhat brittle but so beautiful colored sheets to come to new honors.
Choose the fabrics whose colors you like and want to see together. The size and shape of the remains does not matter, I take everything that is larger than about a DIN A4 sheet. Then you need a thumb-thick crochet hook and a scissors.
First you have to cut the "yarn" from the fabrics. This sounds very complicated, but it is not: For irregular shapes, you can always move around from the outside to the inside, cutting at regular squares you can always make the cuts parallel to each other, leaving only the last few inches. If you do this from the left and then from the right, you get a long string, which is a bit zigzag (see pattern). Let go of any features such as pompoms of tablecloths or other decoration, that comes out in the end very effective. Even if a fabric does not want to show off its "beautiful" side and always curls up, that too can come across well.
The strength of the "yarn" depends on the quality of the fabric. For normal cotton sheets, I cut strips of about 3-4 cm, another fabric was thinner, e.g. Blouse fabric, I cut it accordingly wider. If a fabric was thicker, e.g. Terry cloth, the stripes were simply cut narrower. The perceived volume of the strip / yarn should be roughly the same. You can still trim the yarn a bit, so that extreme corners no longer stand out, but that's very personal preference. Look at the patterns, the red lines are the normal cuts, the green ones are for trimming.
I then knotted my different stripes together, but would sew them together with a few stitches for another rug. This can be done roughly by hand or machine and just overlap. Put your yarn in a laundry basket or a large cardboard box and go:
Whether you make a rectangle or a circle from the inside out or make a runner in rows depends entirely on your mood. I only took firm measures. This is not a guide for crocheting as such, please look elsewhere, if that's not so good. The nice thing about this work is that you can see a result very quickly. However, I would not make a piece bigger than your washing machine tolerates (mine are max 1 m long). It's just handy if you can quickly wash the rag rugs. I have done this many times and they have survived without any problems. (I always wash at 60 degrees because I do not use wool).
Skeptics about the open edges can be reassured, at the latest after the first wash scarcely franken, at least my carpets are still in one piece! Have fun creating :)
