Crochet around pieces of fabric to achieve these stunning results
Lorna Watt
Crochet & Knitting Instructor
Cooktop Cove
Crochet along with the video above to discover how to combine your loves of yarn and fabric! In just three short rounds, you’ll crochet a beautiful lace edge on your favorite fabric quarters.
In fact, you can use this technique on anything that you can put stitches into. Try it on a granny square, hole-punched paper, or anything you can think of. For a fancy bedspread or tablecloth, crochet multiple squares together with a slip stitch or sew them together with a whip stitch.
DIY Everywhere
Notes
Size your fabric in multiples of 1 inch per side + 0.75 inches. Shown in 4.75”.
Sew a blanket stitch or single crochet around the square every 0.25 inches.
Materials
Size C or D hook or appropriate size for yarn
Crochet thread or fingering weight yarn
Fabric square, granny square, or any square with stitched edges
Abbreviations – US terms
ch chain
ch-sp chain-space
iss in the same stitch
sc single crochet stitch
sk skip a stitch
st(s) stitch(es)
tc triple crochet stitch
Written Pattern
Round 1
With front side facing, join yarn 4 sts from corner, sc into each blanket st. At the corners, 2 sc in each of the last and first sts on each side. Join with a slip st into your first sc.
Round 2
Starting in same st, Starting shell: All in the same st ch 4, tc, ch 2, 2 tc, ch 2; sk, sc. Corner shell: Ch 2, sk, all in the next st 2 tc, ch 2, tc; all in next st tc, ch 2, 2 tc, ch 2; sk, sc. Shell: Ch 2, sk, all in the next st 2 tc, ch 2, 2 tc, ch 2; sk, sc. *Continue making shells to the corner. Corner shell. Rep from * to last corner. Make shells to the beginning of the round, ch 2, sl to top of first ch 4.
Round 3
Sl in next tc, sl in next ch-sp, sc in same ch-sp, *ch 5, sk 2 ch-sp, sc in next ch-sp, ch 6, sc in next ch-sp, (ch 5, sc in top of next shell) to corner, rep from * around, when you reach the starting point join with a sl st in the 1st sc.
Tie off.
Weave in your ends and block the squares to shape.