V stitch crochet blanket. How to edge it?

[Suddengeekgirl]

I have almost finished ds' vstitch blanket -2 rows to go and it'll fit a single bed.

So now I want to edge it. But I'm not sure how.

Can anyone tell me how they did theirs?

[Suddengeekgirl]

Here's a pic of it last week.

[chaosisawayoflife]

That's really lovely. I'm sorry I have no suggestions but place making as I've nearly finished my cosy stripe blanket and starting to think about how to edge it so I may steal some suggestions.

[Lifesalemon]

It's gorgeous. I would Google crochet edgings and have a look through until you find something you like. I would go for something quite plain though as anything too fancy would take the interest away from the lovely colours in the blanket.

[SoupDragon]

I often put a few different coloured rounds of HDC and then finish it off with a row of Crab Stitch (also known as Reverse SC)

It's a fairly plain but efective and robust border.

[Suddengeekgirl]

Thanks all! :)

I'm not quite sure how to crochet into the sides of the Vs iyswim. Any suggestions? Or a link to a tutorial?

A plain border is definitely the way to go though.

[SoupDragon]

I think I would probably crochet around one post of the V rather than into it. 2 to 3 stitches per V.

[SoupDragon]

If you look at this thread there is a post on 08-Jul-14 07:17:03 that has a picture of the border I mean.

Won't help with your Vs though!

[Suddengeekgirl]

This is what I've done so far.

[SoupDragon]

Looks good to me!

[BeeBawBabbity]

Oh that's really lovely. I've ordered some wool in rainbow colours to do a big blanket and I might do it like yours! I like the colour changes. Are they randomly changed or is it designed? It works well.

[Suddengeekgirl]

beebaw thank you!

The colours are both planned and random!
I like control and plans so struggle with random. But found a website where you can input te colours, tell it how many stripes and it'll generate a random colour order for you! It's brill!

I'll go and find it, but think you'll just need to google 'biscuits and jam random colour'

[Suddengeekgirl]

Here you go

www.biscuitsandjam.com/stripe_maker.php

[BeeBawBabbity]

Wow thanks Sudden that site is great, I'll definitely bookmark it .