Crochet Like Crazy...

Welcome to the final week of On the Edge...

This weeks task: Crochet Edging...FINALLY!!!

Difficulty Level: 2 Chocolates plus 3 Bonus Chocolates, just for fun

 

It's time for the icing on the cake, the crowning glory, the creme-de-la-creme, the Bomb with a capital B. Get the hook out, ladies. Let's crochet like crazy. (insert wild excited screams here)

To get the party started...

Eat a chocolate.  A girl's gotta be fortified.

 

Load your hook with a slip knot. Make sure you have about an 8" tail. Don't cut the tail.

Slide your hook under a blanket stitch.  Start your stitch from the right side of the pillow case. I like to start by the side seam.

Complete a single crochet. 

Directions for how to start the first single crochet: Slide hook under blanket stitch. Hook working yarn (yarn on skein), bring it under the blanket stitch, yarn over hook and through both loops on the crochet hook.

In the same manner, work two more single crochets into the same blanket stitch.

Stitch three single crochets into each blanket stitch all the way around the pillow case. This will be the foundation for the scallop pattern.

When you get back to where you started:

• Chain one; 
• Single crochet into the first foundation stitch you made; 
• Skip two foundation stitches; 
• Stitch FIVE double crochets into the next foundation stitch (all five double crochets go into the SAME foundation stitch); 
• Skip two foundation stitches; 
• Stitch a single crochet into the next foundation stitch; 
• Skip two foundation stitches; 
• Stitch FIVE double crochets into the next foundation stitch;
• Skip two foundation stitches;
• Single crochet into the next foundation stitch.

You should now have two scallops on your pillowcase.

Don't adjust your monitor.  This next photo of the first completed scallop is really blurry.  Eat another chocolate. Maybe then you won't notice so much.

 

Continue the scallop pattern (sc, skip 2, 5 dc, skip 2) all the way around the pillowcase.

 

When you get back where you started, slip stitch into the first single crochet of the pattern. (A slip stitch simply means to insert your hook, pull the working yarn through the stitch and through the loop on your hook.  It is a way to connect things.)

Cut your working yarn about 10" inches from the hook. Make the loop on your hook kind of big-ish.  Put the end of the working yarn through the loop and pull to tighten. Do not cut the tail.

 

You now have two "tails" of yarn to deal with. Weave the yarn tails, one at a time, through at least two scallops. To do this, put the yarn tail on a needle. Sneak the needle through the middle of the stitches. Pull the yarn through. I usually weave the yarn in for about 5" in one direction and then come back the other way for an inch or two. Pull the yarn taut. Trim yarn close to your work. Give your work a little tug.  The end should "disappear".  Weave in the other yarn tail.

You are done! Fini! Completo! You go girl. Slip a pillow into your new Posh Pillowcase.  Doesn't it look dandy? Find a sunny spot on the couch. Lay your head on the new Posh Pillow and enjoy those last three chocolates.  You deserve it.

Thanks so much for sewing, and crocheting, and eating chocolates with me. Up next at You Go Girl...a tutorial on how to let your jeans out. Chocolate always comes with a price tag. Just kidding. Actually, sometime in the next couple of weeks I will post the pattern for this crochet border. Stay tuned.

And finally, I have started an On the Edge... Flickr group to post pictures of your amazing work. You can join here. I am dying to see all your lovely lovelies.

That's all for now. Don't be a stranger. 

Later, blog friends~

Cassie 

Comments

[Lisa]

Love, love, love these! I was wondering how I was going to find a place to find vintage pillowcases. Then it came to me. I have two of them on my bed!!! Yes! From the 70's. Not necessarily my thought of vintage, but they will do, for sure!

[Bridget]

This is such a cute idea! Thank you for sharing. :)

[Pascale]

Beautiful

[Jenny]

Hello! I came across this pattern just love it! I am the editor of AllFreeCrochet.com and would love to feature your tutorial on my site with full credit to you. I know my readers would love it as well, and in return would generate some nice traffic to your site. If you agree and would like us to feature your project, our readers will simply click the link to your blog to get your full tutorial. It's really that simple. Please let me know if this would be ok. I look forward to hearing from you!
Jenny
jbenoit@primecp.com

[KamiJns]

I love, LOVE, L O V E this edging!!!! I'll give it a try for sure. Thank you!

[Jennifer F.]

This is by far the clearest, simplest explanation I have seen for any crochet stitch. Thank you! I am almost finished putting together the squares for my first blanket, and I was looking for a simple, pretty border to finish it off. I think I've found it!

[Dawn]

I did it!! And I'm so excited! Your tutorial was easy to follow; both the text and the pictures made sense to me. (And that's a fairly large compliment, since I'm not too good at 'seeing' things that are 3D in my my mind's eye.) If ya wanna take a peak at the end product, here it is: http://otavashop.blogspot.ca/2012/10/red-buds-pillowcase.html I've already whipped up 6 or 7 more that are just waiting for trim now.

[Serafina]

Yayyyy!! I just crocheted my very first edge thanks to your wonderful, clear instructions!! Thank you so much !!!!

Serafina :)

[Carol]

What size and type yarn did you use for this and what size crochet hook? Thanx for a great tutorial!

[Connie]

I have just found this site. Your tutorials are so easy to understand. I look forward to creating.

[Sue]

Oh my gosh, I am so glad I saw this after week four...there is no way I could have waited for the finale. My pillowcase is awesome and I am starting my crochet!!! thank you. Love love love your blog.
Sue

[Mollye Self]

Thank you sweet girl for this amazing tutorial. I have been dreaming about floral flannel pillowcases and wanted a crochet border. Yours is beautiful. Now I'm off to Hancock's for fabric. :) Hope your day is as nice as you've helped make mine.

[Laura]

How did you make the holes in the fabric? Hem stitch with a wing needle? Love the fabric....

[sandra]

I don`t get it, where do you explain how to close the pillow-case so your pillow isn`t
falling out all the time?

[gina]

I wanted to let you know that I used your tutorial (which is wonderful by the way) and made some pillowcases for a friend's mom who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. They turned out great. I blogged about them on my (mostly food) blog at: http://athomemyway.blogspot.com/2013/04/homemade-pillowcases.html

Thank you for the inspiration and the great pattern. These just turn out so pretty, cheery, and beautiful! I couldn't believe that I made something that turned out so well. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!

[Desiree]

Didn't make the pillowcase, but got a brainwave to use this stitch on a to-go coffee cup sleeve. So pretty:
http://thegoodrebellion.blogspot.ca/2013/05/pretty-in-pink.html

[Leanne]

I know this is an old post, but it's still a goodie, and I just used this tutorial to decorate a project of mine. You can view it on my blog if you like: http://yearofcraftingdangerously.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/more-hotness.html

[Ferdiya Norisca]

thank you for the tutorial... i'll try to make it :-)

[Lily]

I absolutely agree with the positive comments above. For a beginner, the instructions so easy to follow and the pictures are so very clear. thank you ever so much

[LaDean Lombardi]

Just Beautiful! I am making them too!

[Kathy Neff]

Love, love, love the pillowcases

[Kathy Neff]

What size thread and hook did you use please?

[JaneE]

Just finished my first one and it is lovely! Thanks for the tutorial…

[Susan Dombek]

What is the sewing stitch you do first on the pillow slip?

[Andrea]

How is the hole made to get started?

[Julie]

Great instructions - have lost my glasses but can still follow this! And it's just what I was looking for to edge my denim jacket - not too plain, not too fancy - thank you :)

[Karen Griska]

This is the most understandable crochet tutorial I've ever seen! Nice job. Thank you.