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Hello and welcome back to Good Knit Kisses.
I'm your host, Kristin, and today we
are going to crochet a border around a blanket.
And I'm using the marshmallow crochet baby blanket
as an example.
You can use whatever one you desire,
but this is the textured stitch that is featured in there.
It is a single crochet and two doubles after,
and then skip two and go over.
So that's how you get this sort of shell and puffy stitch.
So we're going to do is once you finish your blanket,
you can come in at any point.
I want to start at a corner, really,
but I'm not going to start where I have a tail.
So I've got my beginning and ending tails here.
So just start at that corner here.
And we're actually going to make the first part of this--
it's actually the ending of this row
and then do the corner first and then go along.
When you come back in the very end of video,
when you want to finish this off,
you'll end up just slipping this stitch here.
We're doing a single crochet to finish it out.
You'll notice there's a bulk part,
and I'll show you that here in a moment.
So I want you put your slip knot on your hook again.
You're going wrap around like this.
So if you are adding to a knitted blanket
and you're not familiar with crochet,
you'll get to see that here.
And I have videos to slow that down too.
So we're going to put the yarn in the back over the front,
and the back over the front again
over the tip of your finger to make a slip knot,
or however you're comfortable.
Go ahead and put that tail at the back
and we're going to slip in just this top area on the corner
here.
All right, now we're going to wrap it around, pull through,
two loops on the hook, wrap around yarn over again,
and pull through.
That's our first single crochet.
Now we're going to finish out the stitch by yarning over,
go three wrap around, go through, yarn over,
pull through two.
Oops, I got three there.
OK, so we've got pull through two, and pull through two.
So we've got our double crochet, wrap around again.
We're going to do one more double crochet.
Pull through, wrap around, pull through two and two.
OK so we've got one of the texture stitch
on here, now what we want to do is turn the corner.
So we're going to just chain one.
OK that's it.
And then do the same texture stitch again.
So go through that same hole that we were on, grab our yarn,
and then we're going to pull that through.
So we've got a single crochet.
Do two more doubles in the same hole.
Pull through two, and two.
Wrap around, pull through two and two.
And if you watched my crochet baby blanket, the marshmallow
one, I don't know why, but I was yarning
under instead of yarning over.
And you might have a slightly different or less pillowy
effect.
And just be consistent, so if you yarn under or yarn over,
just do it the same way, and doesn't mean you're wrong,
you're just doing it differently than someone else.
So we're going to go across in our same stitch pattern here.
We're going to go-- it's like you're skipping over two
chains, but to just go to this-- actually on the side stitches.
So this is going to count sort of as the one
and then the two here.
So we're going to go through, it looks like this single one
when you're on the edge here.
So go through this one here.
I already kind of worked this out, so.
That's a single and then we're going
to go through and do two double.
OK.
One more double.
OK and now we're going to skip over
and you see this down here.
And do a single.
And a double.
And one more double.
OK, and now we're going to this corner here.
Single crochet, double, double.
And now chain one and now another single.
Oops, I've caught another stitch.
Hold on.
I'm going to do a single.
And a double.
Oh.
That's not what I'm doing.
I'm sorry I'm getting my tail entrapped there.
That's what that is.
So just lay that right on top here if you've got your tail.
You're just want to trap it in.
OK, double.
See we all make mistakes.
I make them all the time.
OK.
All right, so now we have that pretty little corner here.
See how that worked out really well?
And so if yours doesn't look like that,
you may have to frog back-- just rip it apart
to go back and do that again.
I actually had to take this video over again
because I think I put an extra double crochet in on there.
OK.
On the last take, not right here.
OK so, now we're going to go down and do
another single crochet.
And a double.
So you get the idea.
You just continue along, doing your single, double, double,
and skipping every other.
So you're basically matching the stitches previous that
were on that row before you.
So let me pull away from this after I do another set here,
and I'll show you how they're sort of lining up.
And of course, if you're doing this on another project that's
not actually this stitch, then it doesn't have to line up.
Just make sure that everything-- Whoops.
Got that tail again.
Golly, the tail.
Anyway, just make sure everything's
really even as to how you're spacing things out.
So you can see how these alternate from I
have these little bumps on this side,
so they kind of alternate there.
So I want to show you what it's like.
I'm actually kind of running out of this scrap yarn
I'm using here.
So I'm going to finish this off.
And I'm going to come over here and show you
how to come approach it and connect these two.
So hold on one moment and I'll be right back.
All right, so I come to the end of this row here.
Well we're sort of faking it because I
didn't have enough yarn.
But we're headed this direction here,
we've got enough for one more of these textured stitch going on
here.
And want to connect the corner that I had previously started.
So we're going to go down into the next spot here.
And don't worry that's not right on top of that
because you'll see in a moment.
So I want to go ahead and continue.
So single crochet, double, double.
So there's one single and here's the first double crochet,
and the next double crochet.
So I'm just going to go through here, grab my yarn,
come up, and then a slip stitch.
All you're going to do is just hook it through here,
so all that's left is just this one little loop.
OK and then you just kind of pull on through,
clip your to yarn at a good length.
And then now you've got this tail here
that you're just going to weave in with your tapestry needle.
So we've got a nice little corner here and here
and of course I didn't finish the other side over here.
But you can see how we have a nice little edge
to our blanket.
Weave in your tails and you are done.
All right, so thank you again for joining me
at Good Knit Kisses.
Be sure and check out the video for the marshmallow crochet
baby blanket, if you didn't get to see that.
And of course we have our other crochet videos.
There's also a video on how to read a crochet pattern.
We've got one for making a hexagon and also
one for making a dish cloth.
And of course other videos are brought you by Mikey
with them all slowed down.
And those are courtesy of him on our channel.
Thank you so much.
Have a great day.
And happy crafting and crochet.
Bu-bye.
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