Second tartan rug

 May, just finished well except one end of fringing, need a footy or tennis game to watch while I do that.

Again I made up the colours and only needed to buy the black. First is to make the "net". I used a bigger hook to do chains as long as I wanted, I tend to do my chains tighter so have learnt to use one size bigger then go down a size. First two rows of chain then single crochet was with a size 6,the rest with size 5.

The net is made by 3 chains at the start then double crochet, chain one and miss one stitch all the way along. I ended up with 90 spaces or holes. Once the net is as long as needed, it's time to fill in those spaces.

These are some chain lengths that I made for the first rug. Second rug I attached the end to foundation row and then chain the length of the rug. Chain length is then threaded through the spaces in an up and over pattern.

And hey presto, the result is a tartan rug!

I had in my stash, a 300 gram ball of orange, bought two balls of black and had the yellow. I did run out of the black and used a dark navy for the last couple of rows. This one took ten days