Stitchboard Admin message #2
Re: different crocheted doily rug
August 30, 2014 at 2:55:33 AM  (in response to janicec message #1)
 
Janice,

Oooh, I love this one, too!    I remember a crochet mailing list ages ago, where everyone always talked about the "Trish K" doilies.  Truthfully, I never would have thought at the time of using doily designs as rugs!

I agree about the texture.  Those bobbles are amazing and the whole thing looks like one layer on top of another, and I'm still thinking of various colors to show off that layered look! 

So are you thinking of making this one, as well?    Nothing says you need to be limited to one!

I think the rugs are such a practical use of doilies.  There's only so much you can do with a doily, but using them as rugs gives them a wonderful purpose! 

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Stitchboard Admin message #4
Re: different crocheted doily rug
August 31, 2014 at 12:49:46 AM  (in response to janicec message #3)
 
Janice,

Meh, it's like riding a bike...you never forget how to crochet! 

I don't think it's presumptuous at all to want to change patterns around.  It is all math, so as long as you can work out the numbers, that's what counts!

I understand about the holes in the pattern being too large...perhaps they could be filled with a lacy pattern, as you said, or maybe even some pretty shells?  Or flowers would be interesting.

I did some exhaustive searching for that oval pattern (yet another gorgeous one!), but the only matches I could find were all on Russian sites and (from what I could glean from the Google translations) were either for kits, videos (ha, in Russian?  Sigh) or the finished rug.  Pay in rubles!  LOL.

Also, if I had to hazard a guess, they're using a published pattern, perhaps a Patricia Kristoffersen, to make these kits/videos/sell the finished rugs.  The reason I say that is because the first Kristoffersen was also on that site, which has me believing it's pretty much the same thing.

Couldn't just about any doily be used for a rug?  I love the idea of using them as wall hangings, and I'd have to think that just looking at designs available online would yield plenty of options. 

Interesting...take a look at that linked video again...I swear the "Pineapple Oval" (PK 55 at :55 on the video) starts out almost exactly like the pic above!  So I do wonder now if that particular pattern isn't one of Kristoffersen's, and that Russian site has simply used it, figuring nobody would know where they got it?  And in addition to that, considering Kristoffersen only seems to have books for sale, not electronic patterns, that would make her work even more obscure and subject to copying. 

What makes me think it's one of Kristoffersen's is because the other one was also pictured on that same Russian site.  And it looks kind of like a Patricia Kristoffersen design.

If you're getting three of her books, perhaps there's a chance the oval design is in one of them?  If not, I bet you'll find plenty of other designs that will be suitable for rugs! 

LOL, so you're going to live to be 200, too, hmm? 

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Stitchboard Admin message #6
Re: different crocheted doily rug
September 1, 2014 at 12:40:01 AM  (in response to janicec message #5)
 
Janice,

It sounds to me that even though you may not be able to find the exact design, you have enough to go on to make a very similar, if not identical, version! 

And the round blue doily is also a gorgeous pattern to use for a rug! 

There's also nothing that says you can't combine different parts of different patterns...as long as the math works.    Sort of the way you do with cross stitch, but with crochet! 

LOL!  I honestly wouldn't feel confident sending rubles to Russia for a number of reasons, but particularly with the issue of not knowing the language and thus, knowing nothing about the site.    Can you imagine the headache of getting the wrong item and trying to get an exchange?  Or not receiving anything at all?    Shudder.

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