Crochet Borders6

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After the edging round is complete, you can trim the felt closerto the border, as desired.

Working embroidered Chain siitch on felt.

Embroider the Chain stitch evenly along fetted fabric. To ensure evenly spaced chains, use a permanent marker and a mler to measure out and markthe stitches.

Reading Crochet Pattems

Although crochet instructions may at fi rst look like a foreign language, they can be easy to interpret once you understand how they are written. Abbreviations are necessary. After all, you dont get confused when your recipe calls for “1 c. sugar" because you know that in that context “c” stands for “cup.” Crochet punctuation is explained on page 304; crochet terms are defined and abbreviations are listed on page 308. Any special stitches are defined right next to the pattern where they are used.

While l’ve done my best to make it elear where to put your hook for each stitch, you may find it necessary to referto the chart for help in figuring out the relationship of stitches to each other. Crochet is much easier when you learn to “read” your stitches. Because you can put your crochet hook just about anywhere (and because you will be asked to put it just about everywhere), it helps to recognize what the