Doily Rug For Outside Front Door

I love swirly whirly designs in doilies, and the radiant, graduate petal looks. On Ravelry I aw a rug that had both the whirling petals and a nice density. The maker said it was from a 1991 book she got from the library. So I Googled 1991 doily books and couldn't find anything that showed a doily like this.

Finally, I chanced it (yes, I'm congenitally shy) and asked her the name of the book.
It was from Crochet Lace in Pictures by Yoko Suzuki.  I saw another project that looked very similar --  up to Row 20 of a pattern by Agnes Russel, Passionate Plum Doily in the book Favorite Throws and Table Toppers.

As my local library is inaccessible to me, I would have to by it or find it.
After hours of Googling and the lure of torrent sites, I found the 1991 book (and no malware or adware) on Scribd. The pattern is an “application exercise”, but so instructive -- it is charted(!)

as now I know how to structure the windmill and it could be made with more or fewer of these arms/petals/blades.

Nibbled Square Doily Rug

This was created using a Q hook, 5/32 cotton upholstery piping and Patricia Kristofferson's pattern #70 doily in her collection 99 Little Doilies (leisure Arts 3228).

While less lofty a fiber as the 10/32, the 5/32 is still pleasingly delicious.

It weighed 0.1 oz for a yard, as compared to the 10/32 0.4 ounce for pound.
The rug weighs 41.1 ounces so it used 411 yards.

Using Jute, Rug Prototype

I am another self, having had a birthday on June 1, and having been seized with the idea of shoes, doily rug rugs and crochet and light.

My Pinterest boards – under Akua Designs – have exploded with my explorations and discoveries. I started a Crochet Lampshades and Umbrellas board on Ravelry, become a moderator for the Crocheted Rugs group and have started lists and threads on soling materials in the Shoes! Forum.

I’ll begin at the middle and talk about the Rugs.  There are three in process. An abandoned brown one, an almost finished green one, a cotton piping-based behemoth and this much smaller, but still oversized, doily en jute that is the piping one’s prototype.

PiggWiggy suggested that I prototype  before committing to a pattern for a doily rug and  while I resisted the suggestion at first, I’m glad I did, because there were holes I didn’t want or need and as there was no original picture for the pattern and some things  made at thread –size, don’t look as handsome when magnified. Also, I only used a part of the pattern and so had to  devise a different finishing edge.

(I laid it on the floor to take pictures and Zen -- the rescued-from-Sandy-with-his-sister kitty, came and claimed it).

I came to jute when I read about it in passing as a soling material. The kind I had  languishing on a shelf didn’t work out—which I’ll discuss in greater detail when I get to shoes. I bought another kind – 3 ply undyed from Amazon and it seemed to fly through my hands as I made this prototype. Then I went on to feel its figurative and sculptural capabilities as I made  oversized flowers for yarn graffiti.