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Here are just a few of the edgings and borders that can be crocheted around blankets, lapghans, granny squares, strips, panels...use your imagination. Try them...one might be just what you were looking for.

• Bicolor Cable Edging - Row 1: Color A: 2 sc; * 3 ch; skip 2 sts; 1 sc *; repeat; Row 2: Color B: Starting at beginning of row 1: 1 sc; * 3 ch; take hook out of last ch; insert hook under arc formed by ch 3 of previous row; pick up loop just left and draw it through the arc; yarn over, draw through loop *; repeat

• Corded Edging - Work a row of double crochet from left to right (instead of from right to left). The stitches cross on the top to provide a decorative beaded finish.

• Irish Picot - * 3 sc; 4 ch; take hook out of last ch, insert it in 1st ch, pick up the loop just left, and draw it through loop on hook *; repeat

• Little Picot - * 2 sc; 1 sc; 3 ch; 1 sl st in same st at sc *; repeat

• Open Shell Stitch Edging - 1 sc; * 1 ch; skip 1 st; 3 dc in next st; 1 ch; skip 1 st; 1 sc in next st *; repeat

• Picot 1 - 1 sc; * 3 ch; 1 sl st in base of sc; skip 1 st; 1 sc *; repeat

• Picot 2 - 3 sc; * 4 ch; 1 sc in 2nd ch; 1 ch; skip 1 st; 3 sc *; repeat

• Pineapple Edging Stitch - 2 ch; * 1 hdc; (yarn over, insert hook behind hdc, yarn over, draw through a loop) 3 times; yarn over; draw through 7 loops on hook; 1 ch; skip 1 st *; repeat finish with hdc

• Scallop Edging - 1 sc; * 3 ch; skip 1 st; 1 sc *; repeat

• Shell Stitch Edging - 1 sl st; * skip 2 sts; 5 dc in next st; skip 2 sts; 1 sl st *; repeat

• Slanting Pineapple Edging Stitch - Row 1: 2 ch; 1 hdc; * (yarn over, insert hook behind hdc, yarn over, draw through a loop) 3 times; yarn over, skip 1 st; insert hook in next st; yarn over, draw through a loop; yarn over, draw through 2 loops; yarn over, draw through 6 loops; yarn over; Row 2: 2 sc between each pineapple stitch

• Wide Scallop Edging - 2 sc; * (1 htc, 2 dc, 1 hdc) in next st; 4 sc *; repeat