Making a new bathroom mat while on the road

I have gotten a lot better at crocheting flat pieces, and using reused fabric as the wool. There is a great tutorial on how to cut continuous strands from a t-shirt here, and this technique can be adapted to tights, jeans, bedsheets, any fabric you would like to reuse!

After one false start, I had a plan and have been knocking out a lot of reused fabric discs in complimentary shades of pink, and white.

Each one only takes a couple of minutes to make as they are so small. When laid flat, they are looking fairly easy to slot together and stitch up.

I think I should be able to stitch them together like so;

Slightly different to the above pattern, my final plan is to stitch them to each other at the 12, 3, 6 and 9 o’clock points of the circle. And awaaaaaay we go!

I stitched them lengthways first to create long lines of circles.

After this they will need to be stitched together vertically to complete the rug. The lightning-bolt-style stitches are the vertical ones.

So far, so good!

Related;

Previous functional crochet projects and patterns can be found in the links below, if there are any patterns missing feel free to send me an email and I will try to walk you through the recipe any way I can.

Blanket, pillows and necklaces

Crocheted hacks sacks

Crocodile (or pineapple stitch) booties