It's not a rug

It's a trivet. And it bears absolutely no resemblence to the pattern in the book. The book is Leigh Radford's One Skein. I really liked the last project in the book, the Labrynth rug. Which obviously this is not. As I was digging through my stash, I found this yarn, which is beautiful and soft and I have a ton of. so I thought, Why not? I'll try it and if it works I will have a rug for Katie's room. Also I had 3 days of training and needed something mindless to knit. No charts, no counting, easy. Since this isn't the recommended yarn I had to go down a couple of needle sizes (actually making the whole rug thing take a lot longer to knit) For the pattern you have to knit for 19 1/2 yards (don't know why it's not just an even 20). So I made it about 3 yards before deciding that having 16 1/2 more yards was not going to make a very interesting looking rug. Anyway, I needed to sew it onto a cotton cord and then sew it together. And sewing, not my most favorite of activities. I decided to make this into a trivet to see if it was going to be a drag to put together. And it wasn't too bad. So I may someday attempt a rug, but I will stick to the pattern and use a variety of yarns that change randomly. But when I do start it, I am anticipating that it will take months since I will have to be working on other projects along with it so I don't totally lose what little mind I have left.