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Hi, this is Tamara from mooglyblog dot com and in this video i'm going to talk
about crochet edgings
Edgings are good for blankets, for afghans, for napkins, placemats
basically anything you want to put an edging on. 0:00:19.660,0:00:23.919 now when you're putting an edging on something you've usually got a top and a bottom
and working into those is just the same as doing another row
it's the sides that can get tricky
so let's start close to a corner here
I'm going to pick up
my edging yarn
I'm doing a different color so it will be easier to see.
I'm going to pul it through a stitch
and taking the working and
i'm going to chain one
take the cut end pull that down snug
chain one more
keeping that working end snug
and make a single crochet right into that same stitch
Some edgings will call for double crochet's, triple crochet's it doesn't
matter
in this one we're just going to do single crochet
then continue working on that top edge just as you normally would until you get
to the last stitch
There are a couple of different ways to handle the corners if you're doing a specific
pattern you follow those instructions
if you're just making up one you can work three stitches right in that corner and
that'll take you around the side if you
want to you can also just work a couple of chains
that'd be the space you need and then start working into the side
of your project
so let's work into the side here we have a series of single crochet rows
so
when you're working with a single crochet rows just kind of find
what feels like the best place to go in
it's always going to be a little bit of a struggle to push into that stitch
just pull it through
and work a single crochet normally
next one's a little easier
going in between the rows
now how many to work
sometimes people say go one stitch per row 0:02:07.030,0:02:11.750 it just depends sometimes you'll get a bit of rippling if you work even one for
one
for too long in which case you can work
three single crochets and then kind of skip a space and just work the fourth one
if that's still rippling work a little more if you find your fabric certain to
gather then you're not working enough
really it's so individual and it just depends on your gauge you need to work whatever works
for you
do a little bit of experimenting
don't be afraid to frog it
so
for this one was a short enough distance that working one for one worked
if I had done this for longer i can tell that I've got
a little bit of a rippling going on here so i would need to look at
either adding some more or taking some away to make sure it stayed really smooth
moving on down to the double crochet rows
this is a little trickier
you've got spaces here inbetween some people say to go around the whole stitch
which depending on what you're working on can look alright it does tend to leave a
little bit of a hole there
what i like to do when i can
is actually kind of split
page of the height of the stitch there
pick up a couple of the pieces
and
work you're edging right
through that double crochet stitch
then come down to that space between the rows and work the next one
and split the next stitch just try and gather 0:03:35.019,0:03:42.019 two get two of those pieces of the yarn on top of your book and one underneath
and continue
on down the row
again, edgings are something where you kind of have to figure out what works best for
you
but as long as you're not finding the fabric gathering too much if it's
pulling together like this that means you're not working enough stitches in the side
if you find it's rippling like this that means you've got too many
figure out the pattern that seems to work best for the piece you're working
on
and you'll have a great looking crocheted edging 0:04:10.839,0:04:11.219 thanks for watching