For this tutorial you will need your selected yarn I'm using Style craft Special DK you will
need your crochet hook if you want to check your yarn label to see what size your yarn recommends
but I'm using a 5 millimetre today you will need a pair of scissors and a darning needle I shall
leave a link in the description box of where you can find all of these things ok so before
we get started I just want to go through a few things this is the sample piece that I
have done obviously if you've got a blanket it would be much bigger but just for the purpose
of me demonstrating this to you just imagine this is much bigger so whenever I do a border I
would always do a round of double crochet which is single crochet in the US and the reason I do that
is because I think it creates a much neater edge what I had done in the corners where I would have
done a chain 3 I have actually done 5 stitches so two go along the edges and then one straight
in the middle now this particular pattern is going to work in multiples of 7 so you want to
get your stitches as close to a multiple of 7 as possible now for me in this instance apart
from the very corners I have got a multiple of 7 plus an additional 2 so what I'm going to do
is count the two here so ignore the corners count the two back and then this is where my multiple
of 7 would work so as I've done this round of double crochet I've tied it off so that I can
start my stitches in that space just here and it just calculates a bit better for when you're
working in the corners so I'm not working in the very corner stitch I'm missing one stitch
and I'm going into this one just here so as I say that might be a calculation that you have
to sit and work out how it might work best for you but hopefully if you keep watching you'll
see how the corner works and you can decide what's best for you at that point so I have just attached
my yarn into the space where I want to start I'm going to grab the yarn and pull it through and I'm
going to chain one and that's going to class as our first stitch we're then going to skip
two spaces so one two and in the third space along we're going to do three treble crochets
so that's double crochet in the US so that's yarn over insert into that third stitch along grab the
yarn pull through you'll have three loops on the hook yarn over pull through two and yarn over pull
through two so that's one we'll do that again two and three and at this point we're going to chain
three one two three and then we're going to slip stitch into that first chain so you insert your
hook I like to grab both of the parts of the chain grab the yarn and pull through and that makes your
little knobbly bit at the top we're then going to do another three treble crochets into that same
space so one two and three and then what we want to do here is anchor down that section so we're
going to skip two stitches again one two and then do a double crochet into that first stitch along
so that will be a single crochet in the US so that is pretty much your pattern repeat so I'll show
you that again we're going to skip two and then do three trebles into that third space along one two
and three you're going to chain 3 1 2 3 and slip stitch into that very first chain that you created
so grab the yarn and pull through and then you're going to do 3 treble crochets into that very same
space again 1 2 & 3 skip 2 chains and then do the double crochet so I'm going to go ahead
and do another one of those so I'm just going to get you to pause the video for a moment and then
I'm going to take you across to the corner and show you how to adapt for your corners okay so
I've just done the corner don't worry I'm going to undo this and show you what I did but I just
wanted to talk you through now whenever you're doing a border and a corner you're always going
to have to adapt to whatever work that you're doing so me just giving you one technique might
not work on your piece of work so you have to kind of be adaptable now what I found even
though I started on the third one in technically I should have finished a few more over but you know
that's fine that's part of handmade and I've adapted it as suits here so I'm just going to
unfold this unravel this in a minute but what you can see is you want to almost get this peak
part into the corner as much as you can so I'm going to unravel this and then show you what I
did so my last double crochet finished here and I could have just missed two and then done my picot
my triangle picot stitches in this very corner here but what that might have done is made the
corner turn up a little bit so I'll show you what I chose to do instead and this worked for me but
again you're going to have a play around and see what works best for you so instead of skipping
two and doing everything in this corner what I'm actually going to do is skip one and then
do one treble into the next stitch and then the other two trebles into the corner stitch and then
that kind of stops it from puckering too much in the corners and curling up in the corners so
then I would do the chain 3 and slip stitch and then I would repeat the same thing around the
corner so I'm just going to do two trebles into this corner space one and two and then just one
treble into the next space skip one and then do a double crochet and that now lays nice and flat
and then we have the picot part right in the very corner so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to
continue with this same pattern and I'll meet you again in this corner and talk you through
how I would adapt it for this particular corner because right now I don't know where my stitches
are going to land so as I've worked along this corner I have landed a little bit closer to the
edge this time so instead of having two spaces before I go to the corner I only have one space
so what I'm going to choose to do this time is do the same as what I've done before so with
the three stitches the chain three and then the three stitches all in the corner and only miss
one stitch because because they're going straight into the corner it's not going to pull on the work
so that's what I'm choosing to do here so I'm only skipping one stitch this time I'm doing the three
trebles the chain three slip stitch and then the three trebles again one two and three skipping one
as we have just done and then double crochet and you can see because we're not stretching into the
corner that doesn't cause it to curl in that case so hopefully now that I just talked you through
the way that I would tackle the corners you might be a little bit better equipped to deal with how
you tackle the corners in your own work and you are just pretty much going to repeat that all
the way round so you would just go straight back into the pattern along this side so you're going
to skip two stitches one two and then start your three trebles into that third stitch I'm going
to pause the video work my way all the way round and meet you back to show you how to finish off
so I've now worked my way all the way round this square I found that the opposite corners were the
same when it came to working with stitches and now I've come to the very beginning where I am
going to slip stitch into the first stitch just like so I'm going to chain one grab my scissors
snip off the yarn and then pull that thread out pull that nice and tight and then all that would
be left to do is to sew in your ends into the work so that is your triangle picot edge I really hope
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