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Show Crochet Rugs Are Pretty Just the Amount of Material That Is Required to Make a 30 by 40-Inch 40-Inch Oval. Tho pretty oval braided Japanese-rugs Japanese-rugs seen everywhero now suggested to nn Ingenious girl tho Idea of using up tho odds nnd ends of rags In the house nnd crocheting them together Instend of braiding them. While It may not appeal to one as a summer fancy work, still It's n good time to get nno's strips together In balls and plan tor Jong winter evenings. To make a rug 30 by 40 Inches oval requires !!1 yards of material ,'1G inches wide. It is much prettier to chooso two different colors, white and another wild color or 17 yards of white and tho rest divided among two or three harmonizing shades. It must, however, how-ever, always bo remembered that In rug designing, llko bouquet making or Itillt patching, certain rules aro infallible. infal-lible. There must be a distinct touch af dark, bluck or very durk blue or drown. Yellow and green set off nil athcr colors and the prettiest rugs aro Jlvlded equally between white und another an-other color or group of colors. To make a .white nnd bluo-strlped rug, for example, tear 17-yard strips of white cheesecloth and blue calico Into one-Inch widths. Regln with n chain eight inches long, crocheted with ft heavy wooden crochet needle costing 10 cents or one of amber which costs 15 cents. Turn nnd put In eight stitches nt the end. Repeat nt the other end after crocheting back tho eight Inches of chain. Add eight stitches at the ends with every other row and this will form the oval. When the first piece of 17 yards of whlto Is consumed, begin be-gin with tho blue strip and alternate the two colors until all the strips arc llnlshcd. This produces a graduated Jtrlpe rug. A girl who has three brothers and i great many brothers' friends has made n rug of neckties, cut Into Inch strips and sewn together in hurmonlz-ng hurmonlz-ng combinations. This rug is very beautiful and, being of silk, Is quite truluable. Tho really loveliest and aiost durable ones of all are made of ,voolen materials, but if one buys out- right for them It mnken It more cxpen. slve and It takes n good while to accumulate ac-cumulate Just tho right colors hero nnd there. |