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How to make a simple crochet blanket border (great for textured blankets)
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Mar 3, 2025
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in this video I'm going to show you how
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to create a simple delicate border for a
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blanket that has oh a lot going on you
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can frame it beautifully but it's just a
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little bit elevated from working
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something like just a single crochet so
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let's get started it's really easy and
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you can customize it to whatever size
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you're making so that it looks
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proportionate
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in this video I want to show you how to
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do a really simple blanket border and
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this is suited to stitches like this
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where there's a lot of texture and you
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don't want your border to detract but
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you want a nice clean finished Edge now
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if you do want something a little bit
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more ornate I'll put a picture up here
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for my hardcore blanket and that is a
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two-tone Alpine Stitch border that's a
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little more fancy now for something like
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this for my taste it would be a bit too
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busy now if you like this pattern I'll
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link the actual body of the pattern in
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the description but in this video we're
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just going to be working a simple border
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so for a standard border generally
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you're going to be single crocheting
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around to set up the base for your other
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stitches and that's what I'm doing here
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so I've got my yarn
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attached and you want to keep your hook
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size in mind so for this I used a pretty
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big hook for the yarn size it's category
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4 yarn I have a 7 mm hook sometimes you
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want to go up or down for your border
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it's just going to depend on tension
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spacing things like that and you always
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want to be sure you have enough stitches
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so that there's no bunching so there's
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really no way to say how many stitches
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you need your pattern might say that you
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need a odd or even amount of stitches
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for your design but for this we're just
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basing it single crochet on
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the um on the actual body of work
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so I'm just easily putting in I'm not
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using
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anything uh tight as far as my tension
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nice easy
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stitches and you see in the corners
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here you're going to put three stitches
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no chain spaces just three stitches to
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make sure that it
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rounds as you come around Each corner
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and for bigger blankets I know this is
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tedious but once it's done it's done and
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you have a beautiful finished
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Edge all right so I finished my round
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and I'm going to slip to
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join chain one and now I will work half
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double crochet around the
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blanket working three stitches into the
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corner
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Stitch when I get there I'll do that
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with you
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right I'm in the corner area so when you
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look down unless you've marked your
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corner Stitch which certainly can do
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that if you feel like you won't be able
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to see it but I can see mine pretty
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clearly I'm going to work
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three half double crochet into this
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corner
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Stitch and then just continue working in
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my half double crochet
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around and I'm nearing the end of the
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round I'm going to finish my two I'm
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sorry three half double crochet in the
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center Corner Stitch
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and then my final half double crochet of
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the round and I will slip to
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join chain one and then for this round
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you'll be working half double crochet
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but your placement is going to be
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different you're going to work in
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between the posts like
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this so instead of going here into the
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Stitch you're going to go down under the
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stitch in between the posts
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all right I'm on my last
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Stitch and then I'm going to slip to
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join now if you're making a larger
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blanket this one that I have is a kind
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of a not a small baby blanket but it's
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maybe a stroller size or a crib
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size so this will be enough to be in
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proportion now if you're making a larger
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blanket you might want to do another
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round of that half double crochet that
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is worked in between the post and if not
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you're going to do the following a yarn
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over slip
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stitch yarn
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over go into the sit not under between
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the post but just into that top like you
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normally would into the V up there and
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slip keep it nice and loose no buckling
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yarn
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over slip stitch and I always find that
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turning the hook towards the back makes
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the slip stitch a little bit easier to
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work especially when doing the yarn over
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slip stitch style of slip stitch and it
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gives a little bit more body than a
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simple slip stitch you see it looks a
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little more sub substantial and because
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this uh Stitch of the blanket I'm using
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has some texture to it it's a little
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thicker it's not just a thin meshy kind
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of blanket this uh complement that
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instead of looking flat and
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deflated yarn over and slip stitch isn't
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this yarn gorgeous I use this for my um
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the Four Color method of the Plaid
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blanket I'll link that somewhere in here
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if you want to look at it and so many
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just loved the color I know blue is such
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a popular color I really gravitate
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towards greens and it's this Blossom
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cakes from Karen and it's nearly half
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and half cotton in I think
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polyester
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acrylic cotton color still a little bit
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on the warm side I'm in a warm climate
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so this would be too warm for summer but
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it's a nice you know spring and fall
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yarn so yarn over and slip stitch so let
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me know if you're going to use this type
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of Border in your
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project and some of you may be using
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this while you're making the siren song
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blanket when you come around the corners
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as you're working your slip stitch row
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do not work the three into the center
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Stitch just keep going
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around and work your slip stitches since
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you're not increasing anymore after this
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you just want to finish out
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your um outside
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edge like so
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