- 1). Choose your materials. When choosing yarn, think about washability as your number one deciding factor. Cotton or acrylic yarns will be best for this project because the baby's parents will be able to wash the rug to keep it clean for baby. Try to find a bulky weight yarn, and use a larger hook such as a size K or even N. This will help you finish your project quickly because larger hooks and bulkier yarns make bigger stitches than thinner yarns and hooks.
- 2). Begin by crocheting in the round. We will make a circular rug for this project, though you can use the same basic ideas to make another shape if you like. Try a traditional rectangle, or make it unique with a flower shape or a star shape.
For the circle, make three chain stitches, then make 11 double crochets into the third chain. Join with a slip stitch to the second chain, and you have a circle of 12 double crochet stitches (the first two chain stitches count as a double crochet stitch here and throughout the pattern). - 3). Increase your stitches until the rug reaches your desired size. Since you started with 12 stitches, you will increase by 12 stitches in every round. So for round two, you will make two double crochet stitches in every stitch around, for a total of 24. In round three, you will make two double crochet stitches in every other stitch around, for a total of 36. Continue to increase like this until your rug is approximately 24 to 26 inches in diameter.
- 4). Change colors when you want to or when you run out of yarn. The beauty of making your rug in a circular pattern is that you can change colors at any point in the circle and it will create a spiraled effect. To change your colors, work a double crochet stitch up until the last yarn over. Then drop your working yarn and pick up the new color, yarn over with the new color and complete the stitch. Then continue to crochet using the new color.
- 5). Finish your rug by joining the last stitch to the first stitch of that round with a slip stitch. Then cut your working yarn and weave in all of your loose ends with a large eye blunt yarn needle.
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