Knitting

FABRIC
RUGS
28 Colorful
Designs

for Crafters of Every Level

Karen Tiede

This is an excerpt from

Knitting Fabric Rugs

AVA I L A B L E J U LY 2 0 1 5

Edited by Gwen Steege

Art direction and book design by Alethea Morrison
Text production by Jennifer Jepson Smith
Cover photography by Kip Dawkins Photography, except for Charles Gupton (author) and
Mars Vilaubi (inside front cover)
Interior photography by Kip Dawkins Photography, except for: Kimberley Coole/Getty
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Photo styling by Neely Dykshorn
Illustrations by Alethea Morrison, except: Moses Harris, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons 11
Charts by Ilona Sherratt
Indexed by Nancy D. Wood
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Contents
Knitted Rugs: The Backstory1
CHAPTER 1

Materials: The Heart of a Fabric Rug7

CHAPTER 2

Color! Rules of Thumb27

CHAPTER 3

Process: Rug-Making Nuts and Bolts37

CHAPTER 4

Earn Your Stripes49

CHAPTER 5

Tantalizing Tessellations83
CHAPTER 6

Log Cabin Designs and Beyond95

CHAPTER 7

Spirited Spirals137
CHAPTER 8

Inspiration: Going Free-Form159

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Once I finished Brown and Gray

Spiraling Square, I couldnt help
but wonder what would happen
if a spiraling square started with
both light colors in the middle.
The result was Green and Purple
Spiraling Square, a rug in eight
shades, from dark to light. The
sketch at lower right shows how
I tested the color shift to see how
the different shades would align.
I wanted to know where the dark
would end up, based on how the

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colors started in the center of

the rug. As it turned out, starting
with lights in the middle resulted
in a dark border all the way
around the rug, which I liked.

The rug was big enough that

I let the four corners end on their
knitted diagonal, rather than
knitting triangles to finish the
rug to square.

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