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Last week we started a mini series in the Crochet for Knitters series, and I showed
you how to work a crocheted scalloped edge to add to your knitted pieces.
And like I said last week, if you get nothing else out of this series, I think crocheted
edgings are the most useful part of crochet – combining crochet and knitting together.
This week I’m going to show you how to do a picot edging.
Which is definitely the frilliest and girliest of my favorite crocheted edgings.
There are a lot of them out there that can get really complicated.
The ones that I’m showing you are the ones that I like the best because they’re simple,
and you get a lot of *** for your buck as far as impact goes, with the way that it looks
on the finished piece.
Let’s go ahead and take a look.
Here’s a finished picot edging. It’s very pretty.
And last week – you can see the difference.
These two knitted pieces are identical, and you can see how different the pieces are when
you add the different edgings to it.
And I’ll give you a link if you didn’t see the scalloped edge video. I’ll give
you a link to that one.
But this is the picot edge we’re working on this time.
Let me go ahead and show you how it’s done.
The stitch that we have in the middle, on all of the pieces, is what I call long moss
stitch.
And I’ll give you instructions for that in the video description below.
And to work, um, this edging, I’m going to start here in the bind off row.
I’m going to go under both legs of one of the Vs and pull up a loop.
And then chain one, and that’s going to count as my first single crochet stitch.
And then I’m going to work a single crochet into the following stitch.
So I go under both legs of the V, grab the yarn pull up a loop, grab the yarn pull through
both.
And if you need a slower review of the single crochet stitch, I’ll give you a link right
here.
Okay, this is where the picot starts.
I’m going to chain three, and you take a look at those chain stitches, and they look
like knit stitches, they look like Vs.
We’re going to stab into the left leg of the first chain stitch, the bottom one.
Stab into there, grab the yarn pull up a loop, grab the yarn pull through both.
Okay.
Then I skip the next stitch on the knitted piece, I’m going to work a single crochet
into the following stitch.
And a single crochet into he one after that.
And now once again, I chain three.
Stab into the left leg of the first chain, grab the yarn pull up a loop, grab the yarn
pull through both.
Skip the next stitch.
Two single crochets into the two following stitches.
Chain three.
Stab into the first chain.
Whoops.
Okay, let’s go ahead and take a look. You see the fancy little edge there!
One more thing I want to show you. I’ve been chaining three.
For a bigger, loopier, maybe even frillier look, you can chain five.
And then the rest of it is just the same.
You can see the difference between – this is all very bulky, of course.
You can see the difference between chain three and chain five. You have a much bigger picot
edge.
Now, um, in this example I am using the same weight of yarn in the knitted piece, and in
the edging, and I’m using a crochet hook that is the same size as the knitting needle
I used to knit this.
So the gauge works out well for this combination.
If you’re going to use a lighter yarn or a heavier yarn, or a different sized crochet
hook, your gauge might not work out like this, but it’s so easy to figure out.
All you have to do is work up a few stitches like I have here, and if you find that your
knitted work is bunching, you’re probably going to need to spread out your edging a
bit more.
Or if you find that this is bunching – well, did I just get that backwards?
If the knitted work is bunching, you want to spread out the knitted work a bit more,
and if this is bunching, you want to spread out the edging out a bit more.
Regardless, it’s so easy to just work up a little bit, see if it’s lying flat, if
it’s not, look at how easy it is to undo it and recover one loop.
Then, instead of skipping one, you might find it’s necessary to skip two to spread out
the edging a little bit, etc.
And then also, these crocheted edgings are so easy and forgiving with just one loop like
that, because you can – you might find that the number of stitches you have in your knitted
work doesn’t match up to the multiple of the edging.
And really all that takes is a little bit of fudging, to skip an extra stitch or two
somewhere along the edge, to get it so that it works out and it looks even when it’s
done.
Now, no one else in the world would probably notice this, but I happen to know that I fudged
one right here, I worked an extra stitch in right here, to make it so that my count was
right going all the way around.
And this is the back of the picot stitch.
It’s also very pretty.
Actually kind of more rugged looking.
And that’s it. A simple picot edging.
I’m working on next week’s video right now, and you’re not going to want to miss
it! You should probably subscribe to make sure that you don’t.
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