We needed a kitchen rug that was ok to get stained, and I had lots of scrap fabric and acrylic yarn - I saw an instagram video about making a rug by crocheting tshirt scraps together and my friend had just told me about their project of stitching tubes of fabric together into an infinitely long worm, and I said I can put these ideas.... together...

I started with my usual 2.5" strips of fabric, cut from my scrap stash. I created meter-long lengths of the fabric strips stitched end to end, and made tubes out of them. I closed the tubes at one end and stuffed them with my "crumb" scraps, and they became worms. All of my scraps are either big enough to cut into 2.5" strips or they are crumbs. This way I will never throw any fabric away.

I stitched the closed end of each worm to the open end of the next, and eventually created one big long worm. This picture doesn't show the full length - it was huge. Starting with a crocheted chain the length of the rug minus the radius at both ends, I double crocheted around the worm, chaining 2 between each dc. I put 2 dcs into the same gap as needed to keep the rug 2-dimensional. It's fun to imagine the 3d shapes you could make with this technique.... I crocheted around the worm in circles until the rug was all done!