How to Crochet Around a Knitted Afghan
- 1). Make a slipknot, just as you did when casting on your knitted afghan. Hang the loop of the slipknot on your crochet hook, just behind the curved end.
- 2). Insert the crochet hook into the first vertical stitch on the left selvedge, just beneath the last stitch of the bind-off. The slipknot should hang in front of your knitting.
- 3). Wrap the crochet hook over the top, from right to left, the opposite direction from knit stitches. Pull the wrap through the slipknot and chain two stitches.
- 4). Insert the hook into the next stitch in the selvedge, below the one you just worked and in the same column. Wrap the hook, pull the wrap through, wrap again and pull the second wrap through both loops to make the first single crochet stitch. Work all the way down the left selvedge in this manner, making one single crochet for each horizontal row in the afghan, until you get to the lower left corner.
- 5). Work two single crochet stitches into the same knit stitch in the lower left corner. Chain one stitch and work two more single crochet stitches into the same knit stitch as before. This gives you a square corner.
- 6). Work along the cast-on edge by inserting the hook through both legs of each stitch, which look like a V, and working a single crochet into each one. Crocheting into the cast-on and bind-off edges is easier than working down the selvedge edges, because the stitches are in a horizontal row and are more clearly defined.
- 7). Turn the lower right corner as you did the lower left: two single crochets, one chain and two more single crochets into the same corner stitch.
- 8). Work up the right selvedge as you did for the left. Turn the upper right corner as you turned the previous two.
- 9). Work across the bind-off edge as you did the cast-on edge. Work the upper left corner as you worked the other three. Join the top of the original two-stitch chain with the last loop on your hook with a slip stitch.
- 10
Break the yarn, pull it through the loop of the slip stitch and pull tightly to close the crochet border. Weave the tail along the left selvedge with your crochet hook.
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