Add a colorful and fun touch to your handmade blankets with this crochet “bobbles and picots” border.
This crochet edging is the one I used to finish my Woodland Baby Blanket, which I made using the basic simple circle granny square design transformed into a number of different forest animals, trees, mushrooms, etc.
Since the basic square pattern is the same, this crochet border will work perfectly for any granny square blanket you’ll make using one of my unique collections:
- Halloween Granny Squares
- Christmas Granny Squares
- Spring Farm Granny Squares
- Summertime Granny Squares
- Valentine’s Day Granny Squares
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Materials
You can use the same yarn and hook that you used to crochet your blanket or project.
For this tutorial, I used:
- 4.0-mm (G/6 US, 8 UK) Crochet Hook
- DK (3, Light) Weight Yarn
- Tapestry Needle
Yarn
I used Paintbox Yarns Simply DK (302 yds / 276 m per 100 g) in the following colors:
- Cream – Vanilla Cream (107)
- Dark Green – Grass Green (129)
- Light Green – Lime Green (128)
- White – Champagne White (102)
Abbreviations (US Terms)
- Bobble – Bobble Stitch
- Ch – Chain
- Dc – Double Crochet
- Picot – Picot Stitch
- RS – Right Side
- Sc – Single Crochet
- Sl St – Slip Stitch
- St – Stitch
- Yo – Yarn over
Special Stitches
Bobble Stitch (Bobble)
Yo, insert your hook in the next st, yo, pull up a loop. Yo, pull through 2 loops on your hook (2 loops on your hook). (Yo, insert hook in the same st, yo, pull up a loop. Yo, pull through 2 loops on your hook) 4 times (6 loops on your hook). Yo, pull through all 6 loops on your hook.
Picot Stitch (Picot)
Ch 3, sl st in the back bump of the first ch.
Pattern Notes
- If the pattern says “dc 2”, you have to crochet 1 dc in each of the next 2 sts.
- (…) – Repeat the instructions within round parentheses for the indicated number of times.
- […] – Crochet the instruction within brackets in the same indicated st.
- The st count is indicated within parentheses at the end of each round’s instructions.
- *…, **…, ˜…, ˜˜… – Repeat the instructions from *, **, ˜, or ˜˜ for the indicated number of times.
Sizes
- The instructions for this crochet border are written for any baby, lapghan, and crib-sized blankets that you’ll make using my Halloween, Christmas, Spring Farm, Summertime, Valentine’s Day, and Woodland granny squares.
- The pattern is specifically written for squares that are joined using the slip stitch zipper joining method.
- The instructions and stitch counts are indicated for the baby, lapghan, and crib-sized blankets as X (Y, Z) times and (X sts), (Y sts), (Z sts) respectively.
Bobbles and Picots Edging – Free Crochet Pattern
RS facing, with your 4.0-mm hook, join cream in the top, right ch-1 corner sp.
Round 1
[Sc 1, ch 1, sc 1] in the same ch-1 sp as joining (photo 1), *sc 21, sc 1 in next ch-1 sp, sc 1 on the side of sl st join between squares, sc 1 in the next ch-1 sp (photo 2). Repeat from * 5 (6,7) times. Sc 21, [sc 1, ch 1, sc 1] in the next ch-1 corner sp.
**Sc 21, sc 1 in next ch-1 sp, sc 1 on the side of sl st join between squares, sc 1 in next ch-1 sp. Repeat from ** 6 (8, 9) times. Sc 21˜˜, [sc 1, ch 1, sc 1] in the next ch-1 corner sp.
Repeat everything between * and ˜˜ once more. Sl st in initial sc to join.
(143 sts on short sides, 167 sts on long sides, 1 ch-1 sp at corners) (167 sts on short sides, 215 sts on long sides, 1 ch-1 sp at corners) (191 sts on short sides, 239 sts on long sides, 1 ch-1 sp at corners)
In short…
Round 1. Sc in each sc. At each joining point between squares, sc 1 in ch-1 sp of the first square, sc 1 in correspondence to the zipper join, sc 1 in ch-1 sp of the next square. At the corners, [sc 1, ch 1, sc 1] in ch-1 sp. Sl st in first sc to join.
Fasten off cream.
RS facing, with your 4.0-mm hook, join light green in any ch-1 corner sp.
Round 2
Ch 4 (counts as a dc and a ch-1 sp), [dc 2] in same ch-1 sp as joining, dc in each st all around. At the corners, [dc 2, ch 1, dc 1] in each ch-1 sp. When you’re back at the initial corner, dc 1 in same ch-1 sp as joining, sl st in third-made ch to join.
(147 sts on short sides, 171 sts on long sides, 1 ch-1 sp at corners) (171 sts on short sides, 219 sts on long sides, 1 ch-1 sp at corners) (195 sts on short sides, 244 sts on long sides, 1 ch-1 sp at corners)
Fasten off light green.
Bobble Row
RS facing, with your 4.0-mm hook, join white in the fourth st on either side of the blanket. Ch 2 (counts as first dc of first bobble, photo 3).
Repeat this row on each side of the blanket!
Complete first bobble: (yo, insert hook in the same st as joining, yo, pull up a loop. Yo, pull through 2 loops on your hook) 4 times. Yo, pull through all 5 loops on your hook (photo 4).
*Ch 3, sk 3, bobble 1 (photo 5). Repeat from * 36 (42, 48) times on the short sides of the blanket, or 42 (54, 60) times on the long sides. Leave the remaining 3 sts of the side unworked. Fasten off.
(36 bobbles on short sides, 42 bobbles on long sides) (42 bobbles on short sides, 54 bobbles on long sides) (48 bobbles on short sides, 60 bobbles on long sides)
Photo 6 shows what the corners will look like.
Round 3
RS facing, join dark green in the top, right ch-1 corner sp of round 2.
[Sc 1, ch 1, sc 1] in same sp as joining (photo 7), sc 3 (photo 8), *sc 1 in the next bobble (photo 9), sc 3 working on the sts from round 2 and crocheting over the ch-3 sp from the bobble row (photos 10-11). Repeat from * 36 (42, 48) times. At the last repeat, crochet the last 3 sc over the tail of the last bobble to anchor it (photo 12). [Sc 1, ch 1, sc 1] in the next ch-1 corner sp.
Sc 3, **sc 1 in next bobble, sc 3 working on the sts from round 2. Repeat from ** 42 (54, 60) times˜˜. [Sc 1, ch 1, sc 1] in the next ch-1 corner sp.
Repeat everything between * and ˜˜ once more. Sl st in initial sc to join.
(149 sts on short sides, 173 sts on long sides, 1 ch-1 sp at corners) (173 sts on short sides, 221 sts on long sides, 1 ch-1 sp at corners) (197 sts on short sides, 246 sts on long sides, 1 ch-1 sp at corners)
Round 4
Ch 1 (does not count as a st), [sc 1, ch 1, sc 1] in next ch-1 sp, sc 4, *[sc 1, picot 1, sc 1] in next st, sc 3. Repeat from * 36 (42, 48) times. Sc 1, [sc 1, ch 1, sc 1] in next ch-1 corner sp.
Sc 4, **[sc 1, picot 1, sc 1] in next st, sc 3. Repeat from ** 42 (54, 60) times, sc 1˜˜. [Sc 1, ch 1, sc 1] in the next ch-1 corner sp.
Repeat everything between * and ˜˜ once more.
Sl st in initial sc to join.
(187 sc sts and 36 picots on short sides, 217 sc sts and 42 picots on long sides, 1 ch-1 sp at corners) (217 sc sts and 42 picots on short sides, 277 sc sts and 54 picots on long sides, 1 ch-1 sp at corners) (247 sc sts and 48 picots on short sides, 307 sc sts and 60 picots on long sides, 1 ch-1 sp at corners)
Fasten off and weave in all your ends.
Your crochet bobbles and picots border is ready!
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