Eli's rug

These are the colours I am using for Eli’s rug. (Note: Eli is a boy, and you say it Eee – Lye, like in the bible.)

It’s nothing too fancy, but his room is red and blue and I quite like these muted shades. He's getting two shades of paler blue because I didn't have as much of each.

For the crafters out there, essentially the kids are getting these rugs because I had some wool originally from a Lincraft sale last year that I think was $2.99 for a 50 gm ball, available in eight different colours (used to make these balls). Then recently I went back to Lincraft to see if I could get any more and found a few balls of it left, but which were exactly what I wanted, that they were getting rid of for only $1.99 a ball - which is a steal for pure wool! I’ve supplemented Eli’s with one other colour from Bendigo Woollen Mills, where you can get 200 gm balls of wool for $11.30 (the cheapest wool I’ve found in Australia). It’s all 5 ply Merino Crepe and each rug takes 22 x 50 gm balls (though the pattern uses 4 ply and I am using 5 ply and a bigger hook so I'd say I'll need more), which comes out at around $60 a rug. I'd make them more colourful if I was going to spend limitless amounts of money, but think they will be quite nice (though am wondering if Annie's colours are a little bland). The wool suggestion on the rug pattern is $14.50 USD for a 50 gm ball. Goodness! Much as I love these little people nobody would be getting a rug at that rate. There are advantages to living in the land of sheep.