In our previous posts related to crochet blanket borders, we discussed granny striping, and then scallops.
Today, we discuss the piece de resistance (the main course) of our border journey! We’re going to learn how to use single crochets to create this lovely border. If you’ve never done single crochet ribbing before hold on, because this one is going to knock your socks off.
Single crochet ribbing is a fun texture to learn, and soon we’re going to use this technique to create a fun ribbed baby hat.
Also below, I’ve included the full pattern for the blanket you see both here in our examples and on the video, for FREE. While I made a swatch, you can make a full blanket using this technique and blanket!
I have also uploaded an inexpensive download for the ad free PDF of the blanket pattern to our shop, so click the image below to see that in our shop.
I LOVE the way this one looks on this blanket! The textures together are so beautiful! Now, I know in one of the previous posts, I said that if you have a lot of texture you may want to choose a more subtle border, but sometimes matching up 2 different textures works out, and, I believe, this is one of those times. You may have to play with a few different options before you find a perfect border, blanket combination.
Single Crochet Ribbing
To create this texture, I began by changing colours at the end of our final row. I am switching over to some white yarn, to add some additional contrast. The body of the blanket was done in ‘Pretty in Pink.’ Its very likely that this contrast is one of the reasons these 2 textures look so lovely together.
At the corner, once you’ve changed colours, chain 8, off the end of your blanket.
Turn and sc into the second chain from the hook, and each chain back towards the blanket, in the back loop only.
After the last single crochet, slip stitch to the edge of the blanket into the next stitch from where you began chaining.
Turn again, and sc back along the previous single crochets, always working into the back loop of the previous row.
At the end of the 3rd row of single crochet, you will need to chain to continue, and keep the correct number of stitches. This chain is happening at the outside, away from the blanket, and the slip stitch is happening at the blanket. Continue working back and forth till you get to the next corner.
At times, I had to rip a few rows out, if I ended up with too many stitches, or not enough and the edge didn’t look straight. You can count your stitches. You should have 7 sc on each row.
At the next corner, single crochet until you are at the outside edge of your blanket. Begin your next side here, with a new chain 8, and repeat from above.
Finally, at the 4th corner, I repeated the same corner, and worked along the edge until I met back up with the beginning of the border section, and finally slip stitched the 2 edges together.
Watch this video to see this technique in action:
Sophia Crochet Blanket with Ribbed Border
Materials: 5mm Crochet Hook (These are mine) and 2-3 skeins of Yarn, plus border colour. I used Red Heart in Pretty in Pink for the body, and white for the border.
Size: 36″ x 42″ For a Baby Blanket.
If you want to make it bigger or smaller, you’re making multiples of 3 stitches.
Stitches Used: Blanket stitch cluster: sc, 2dc all into the same stitch, skip to stitches and repeat. On the next row, make your clusters into the sc from the previous row.
Pattern:
Chain 165 stitches.
Row 1: Begin with clusters(sc, 2dc) starting in the 3rd chain from your hook, and each stitch across. At the end of the row, sc in the last chain, to anchor your border to.
Row 2: chain 2, skip to the first sc, cluster (sc, 2dc), repeating across. At the end of the row, in the last sc, just make 1sc, and then a single crochet in the chains from the beginning of the first row.
Repeat Row 1 & 2 until your blanket measures 42″ from the chain row. Begin the sc ribbing for the border. See above for tutorial. Fasten off and weave in ends.
So, that’s it! I hope you like this one, and if you make it, please tag us on any posts you make on Instagram @purple.rose.crafts. We’ll share them to our stories! Don’t forget you can help support the channel and blog by purchasing our ad free PDF of this blanket pattern.
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