I am finishing up knitting borders for my afghan and sewing them on.
To make things as simple as possible, I measured my strip of knitted border and figured out how many garter stripes I needed for one afghan square (8”), slightly stretched — for me that was 32 stripes (or 64 rows). Then as I knit, I pinned a coilless pin on one side of the edging after every 32 stripes.
That way I didn’t have to keep stopping and measuring and it made it much easier to sew into place: I pinned the edging strip along the side of the afghan, matching the pin to each seam between blocks.
Then I sew the edging to the afghan.
I have three of the four edgings complete and sewn on:
Here’s a corner:
I am now knitting the edging for the second short side and Loki is helping.
I cannot tell you well enough – how much you help with your “hints” and how you go about the process of whatever you’re knitting at the time. The logic is impeachable and so very helpful. Again – thank you for the time you take to blog – it always both entertains (the cutest kitty on the planet) and informs.
Thanks so much for the detailed info and photos. On attaching the border, it looks like you did either a slip st or an overcast st with a tapestry needle. Is that the same technique you used to sew the squares together – or did you use a mattress st or crochet slip st on the squares? Thanks again!
The afghan is lovely in those soothing beachy colors. Thanks for the savvy sewing tips.
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Such a good helper
That is such a brilliant, simple idea, thank you!
Also, I saw this post in my inbox and I thought it said “See and Sew” which I think was the name of a sewing pattern company my mom used when I was a kid, and for a brief second I thought: “Wut, wait, Wendy is sewing now?!” 😉
Interesting and informative as always. Your block afghan is so charming, it’s almost (but not quite) enough to prompt me to make one 😉
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Welcome back! Lovely afghan!
You always come up with clever ideas to make things easier.
I’ve wanted to get into lace knitting for years now, but since I am mildly dyslexic I need to find directions that make sense to my brain. Many attempts and several classes haven’t worked yet, but I know from experience not to give up. Who knows, this book could be the one!