Hi everyone. I hope you are all well. I have left my beloved Eastern Free State and am in Pretoria. Getting used to the city again, but it has its perks. Will be in Pretoria for a while before I can go to the UK to join Matt.
I thought I would share with you my tip for making a border on a granny blanket lie flat. It works for other types of blankets where motifs are used too. All too often you will see borders on granny blankets ruffled and the reason for this is that there are simply too many stitches. This is very simple to resolve.
First join all motifs for your granny blanket. You can refer back to previous posts on this topic for joining granny squares as you go.
The following steps are explained using UK terms.
Once you have your blanket all neatly joined and the ends worked away ensure that the right side of the blanket faces you. Begin in a corner, as you normally would, by joining your yarn, working a corner and then three trebles (UK) into the next chain spaces until the point where you have two motifs intersect.
At the point where the squares intersect make a treble in the first corner 
Next begin making a treble in the same corner but only pull through two loops and leave two unworked. 
Then begin a treble in the next corner by yarning over, insert hook into corner but only pull through two loops. You will have three loops on the hook. 
Now yarn over and pull through all three loops. You will have made a tr2tog (UK) across the two corners. 
In the same corner you completed the tr2tog make another treble. 
Continue working in the next chain spaces as normal and repeat the above at each intersection of two squares.
For row two onward simply work as normal. By working a tr2tog on row one you have created a total of 3 stitches across each intersection where normally one might make 6. This will help your border lie flat.
And that’s it. A simple trick that really makes a huge difference.
Wishing all a wonderful weekend filled with crochet.
