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Show Stockings As Rug: material Charming for a homey living room nook or for a bedroom a colorful col-orful octagon rug you can make from old silk stockings at the cost of a little dye! It's easy, too. You cut two-inch bias strips from the stockings, sew them end to end and crochet them together with single crochet. In no time you have finished a rug 30 inches in diameter. You can use the stockings in their original colors or you can remove the dye with color remover and re-dye re-dye in blending colors violet, purple, pur-ple, bright blue and ivory, or any combination you prefer. Sew all your violet strips together and crochet a center 7V2 inches in diameter, starting with a chain of three joined in a ring. Follow with three rows of ivory, five rows of bright blue and 12 rows of purple. Add eight stitches in each row. |