I have some ugly yarn

I have some ugly yarn, but I'm frugal, or is it spendthrift, or is it OCD... anyway, I can't throw it away just because it's ugly, even though I have nothing invested in it.

See, when a cousin of th'Mr died early last year, her sister gave me bags and bags of yarn she left, mostly acrylic. Since then I've learned about cotton, and sock yarn, and wool blends, and I can only be grateful N wasn't fond of fun fur :)

And most of it's quite nice yarn; I've been finding uses for it - grandbaby clothes, toys, catnip mousies, lapghans, watchcaps, and a sweater or two for me.

But still, I have SOME ugly yarn, and until I use up a lot of what I already have, I feel just a little guilty every time I spend money on more yarn.

Been thinking about doilies & lace a lot lately. Looked at a couple doily patterns and thought, "enlarge that a bunch, and it'd make a cool throw rug!"

So that's what I'm doing today.

I'm crocheting an ugly-yarn throw-rug from a lace doily pattern.

So sue me. You're just jealous 'cause I'm doing it first.