Trawling through FB this morning, I came across a post by Shelly Gumula in the Hooked on Tunisian Crochet feed. She had made a beautiful spiral rug using Tunisian crochet. It really caught my eye as the yarn that had been used was a self-changing yarn and I had also never seen this technique before.
Of course, I had to know how to do it, but, oh dear, the pattern for it was a paid pattern and, due to a very weak exchange rate, I did not feel I could afford to buy the pattern. Fortunately for me, the designer of the pattern had a short YT tutorial showing the first row of her pattern. Initially, I thought I would not be able to go further than the 1st row and felt rather deflated, but once I clicked that the rug still uses circle increase logic (that I learnt from making beanies in regular crochet), I was able to continue with my circular rug done in a spiral. How grateful I am that I am quite an experienced crocheter because Maths and I do not go together too well!
I decreased gradually over a few short rows (new term learnt - hooray!) to get the circle to taper back down again, ending with a slip stitch into the next stitch after the last decrease, and then did a shell border:
Row 1: ch1, sc into the same sp, *ch 2, skip st, sc into the next st* - repeat to end, join with slip st into the first sc.
Row 2: slip st into 2ch-sp, *5dc into ch-space, sc into next ch-sp*, join into the first dc with a slip st.
Row 3:Slip st across to the 3rd dc, sc into the same space, *5dc into next sc, sc into 3rd of the 5dc*, repeat *-* to the end, join into the first sc with a slip st and fasten off.
Next step will be to make a rug for my bathroom in one of the new Elle Cotton On colours that have been released. I am so excited to see the new colours that are available.
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