Crochet Borders
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Łuckily, single crochet is easy to rip out and do over! The important thing is to keep the stitching as evenlyspaced as possible.

Maintaining a Fiat Edge

You need to make surę that you’ve stitched evenly along each edge and that your base round li es fiat. To do this, you will need to make several stitches at each corner of the fabric to ensure that the corner remains fiat. With a single crochet base round, work 3 single crochets into the same corner stitch, then continue stitching along the next edge. Double crochet corners require 5 double crochet stitches into the corner stitch. As you work, place a removable marker in the center stitch of the 3 single crochet (or 5 double crochet) stitches. This marker indicates the corner stitch, which will be referenced on the first round of the border. Until you’re comfortable identifying corner stitches by sight, it’s wise to conti nue using a marker in each corner stitch orspace, moving it up each round as you work.

Draw-irt and ruffling problems. The base round of the sample on the left has too tewstitches and thus pulls inward. The right-hand sample has too many stitches tor the base round and thus flares out, or nifees.

As you work, stitch a few inches at a time, then step back and take a critical look at what you've done so far. Does the fabric pucker or ruffle? If so, rip out that section and begin again, adding morę stitches to correct puckering or using fewer stitches to correct ruffling. Once you’re happy with the results,