Help please! Crochet blanket edge advice

[CannyDog]

I’ve crocheted a blanket but in trying to tidy the edges with a narrow single crochet border I’ve just made it worse. I’m pulling it out and starting again. Problem also is there are few proper stitches one side, as I weaved in the ends of the colour changes in the edge thinking I would then kind of seal them with the border. Bad decision. There a bits of ends popping up but no way can I undo that bit.

its taken me weeks to crochet the blanket and I’m in real danger of completely ruining it 😢

Any pointers anyone to a simple failsafe way to fix? If an edge is “tight” but raggedy and I want to make it straight and neat?

🙏

I usually find a few rows of border evens out the edges. I would do trebles all round for the first row as there's a bit more give.

Seconded. I usually do a row of trebles all the way round then a row of doubles. Sometimes then a scalloped edge to finish.

Thank you @DappledThings and @MyOtherProfile

Can I just check you mean Uk terms?

Yes, UK terms.

Agree, just remember to put some extras in at the corners so it doesn't pull tight and curl the corners of your blanket round. Three of whatever you've been using in the corner stitch usually works but you might need to experiment a bit.

If your blanket edge is very uneven you might be able to use a border I did for a blanket recently - the shape of each 'square' was a bit irregular so I did a wavy border that went 1SC, 3DC, 3TC, 3DC, 1SC all the way round. Where the blanket went 'out' the border joined with the SC, and in the bits where the blanket went 'in' the TC curved in to fill out the border (I have no idea if this is making sense so have attached a photo pre-blocking!).

Yes UK.

Yes to extra stitches in the corners. I didn't realise this on my first blanket and couldn't work out why it was curling. D'oh!

sweetpotato3.com/quick-easy-one-row-crochet-border-youll-love/

Thank you that’s lovely!!!