Making a Plush Rug for a Playhouse

How to Crochet a Circular Rug

The other day my daughter found one of the towels that I had knit for them as babies. It’s rainbow and circular. It’s pretty cute. But it’s cotton and pretty thin. She loved it and immediately asked me to help her spread it out as a rug for her play house. She loves to play “Moms and Babies” or have tea parties in this adorable little house that we built. She asked me to help her spread it out like a rug. So now I’m making a plush rug for a playhouse. Stick around if you want to learn how to crochet a circular rug with me.

Materials:

The first step was to chose the yarn. It’s not going to be a huge surprise as she’ll see me making it. So her brother and I went to Michaels and he helped me pick out this pink yarn. They had a purple which is her favorite color but it was much thinner and it wouldn’t have been as plush which is why we are here in the first place. Also, the pink matches a few pops of pink I had already painted in the playhouse with left over paint samples we had.

I grabbed this Prym Ergonomic crochet hook as it looked comfy…apparently Mabel our 2-ish year old rescue pup also thought the same. I caught her chewing on it this morning when I thought she had the ball she confiscated from her boyfriend next door.

The Pattern:

Recently I made some crochet flower placemats. I’ll link to a post about those in a bit. For now, I started with the foundation of this pattern. Now for the rug, I just went super basic and didn’t use this pattern but I wanted to link it here because she is such a great instructor and really helped me get back into the basics of Crochet. Also because this teaches a more invisible join.

To start the pattern: Make a magic loop and into the loop make 12 double crochets. Use the fake double crochet as a join. This replaces the chain 2 or 3 at the beginning of a round.

Round 2: Into the same stitch you have the fake double crochet, make another double crochet. In each of the 11 remaining double crochets, make 2 double crochets.

Round 3: Start with a double crochet in the fake double crochet again. Place a single double crochet in the next stitch. Repeat *2 double crochets in one stitch, and 1 in the next stitch*.

Round 4: Start with a double crochet in the fake double crochet again. Place a single double crochet in the next 2 stitches. Repeat *2 double crochets in one stitch, and 1 in the next 2 stitches*.

Round 5: Start with a double crochet in the fake double crochet again. Place a single double crochet in the next 3 stitches. Repeat *2 double crochets in one stitch, and 1 in the next 3 stitches*.

Keep working the rounds increasing the number of stitches in between the 2 double crochets in the same stitch until there are 22 stitches in between.

Scallop Edge Border:

Step 1: Chain 1. Skip one stitch.
Step 2: Into one stitch work: 1 half double crochet, and 2 double crochets.
Step 3: Work 3 triple crochets into the next stitch.
Step 4: Into the next stitch work: 2 double crochets, and 1 half double crochet.
Step 5: Skip one stitch. Into the next stitch work a slip stitch. And skip the next stitch.
Repeat steps 2-5 all around the edge.