Materials you’ll need:

• 1 black rubber door mat*• 3 colours of cotton singlets

or stretch jersey cotton (for flowers) – yellow, blue, red.**

• 1 green singlet (for leaves) or jersey cotton scraps

• Scissors

* We found this at Bunnings** We used Bonds brand kids’ singlets in pale orange, blue, red.

Thread the first colour onto a needle, and thread up through the hole leaving a tail of about 5cm at the back. Use this hole as the ‘centre’ of the flower, which connects the ‘petals’

Weave the strip over the rubber, into the hole alongside it, then up through the centre hole again.

Work your way around the centre hole, until you’ve completed the circle.

Flip the mat over and tie the end with the loose tail into a knot.

While still on the reverse side of the mat, thread the loose tails back under a couple of the other loops, so there are none showing.

To create the leaves, use the green singlet cut into strips (or cotton scrap). Use the same technique, but only weave over two loops (to suggest a leaf), and position between two flowers, or next to a flower. Not every flower needs leaves, just some. Flip over the mat and tie in a tight knot. Trim the ends and tuck under the loops if you have spare.

Continue until you have all the flowers in positions you want. Here we have flowers clustered in the one corner. Or, create your own design! If grouping flowers, an uneven number creates a cluster, otherwise it looks too symmetrical.

Ta Da! You’ve made your very welcoming door mat.