Hey friends,
I have been working on market prep lately, and having a blast! I am working on hats, baby sweaters, headbands, roses, and even a few amigurumi to sell at local markets. Then, my husband found a HUGE bag of caron big cakes on our local marketplace and I was able to get them all for $50! There were up to 5 balls of the same yarn, but there was a total of like 16 balls. So now I’m making hats and blankets with that great find!
I decided that I wanted to make a few crochet blankets to sell at my first official market. Over the years, I’ve made dozens of blankets, but this time, I made was a corner to corner, with Caron big cakes in Nightberry, and I bordered it with simple granny rows in a medium grey from my stash (See below). Then I realized most of the yarn in the huge bag I bought would be mostly “boyish” if made as a baby blanket.
So, I decided to grab a couple of balls of more “girly” yarns so I could balance out all the blues, greens, and greys. I bought a couple more Caron Big Cakes in Boysenberry, and Peach Part-ay. The boysenberry I made into a fun granny stripe! Unfortunately, 1 ball wasn’t quite enough, and my mom was de-stashing her house because she hasn’t crocheted in several years. I found a nice light green that complimented that boysenberry ball, and added 8 rows to either end to make the blanket a size I liked.
For the border on this one, I wanted to do something fantastic because the blanket itself was relatively simple. I decided to add a border of ruffles to give it a pretty and fun border. What do you think, did I succeed in adding to this pretty baby girl blanket?
The Pattern: Ruffles Blanket Border
Once your blanket body is finished, you will fasten off, and then pick up your border yarn anywhere along one of the sides. NOT at a corner. Do this by inserting your hook into any stitch, and yarn over and draw up your first loop. Chain 1, and begin single crocheting all the way around the outside of the whole blanket. Try to space evenly. Along the sides of a blanket with double crochets, I have found that single crocheting along the sides like this: 1sc into a dc and then, 2sc into the next, repeat along the sides. At the corners, make sc, ch, sc, into the corner stitch, and keep on going. Slip stitch to the chain stitch at the end of the row.
Row 2: chain 2, then repeat the following around *2dc, dc* into each sc st. At the corner, 6 dc into the chain stitch. Continue around and slip st to the 2ch at the beginning of the row.
Row 3: chain 2, 2dc into each stitch, and 6dc into the corners.
That’s it! Nice and easy. What do you think of this one? I think it adds a great girly border that I hope my customers will love at my market next weekend. Would you like me to do a market recap video/post? Comment below and let me know!
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Much Love,
