Picot Edging

We all like to have cute edgings on our blankets, wash cloths, things like that. I'm going to show you how to do one of my favorites here. The the reason I love this edging so much is because it's super easy to apply to any stitch pattern, and you don't have to think too hard when you're working your way around the corners. So it's very versatile. All right, so what I have here, uh, is this is a moss stitch square, um, and I've created a new one and we're going to be working up the edging on this green one.

The gray is the little edging that I'm going to be showing you here. Before we do the gray edging though, I always recommend that we stitch into and around the whole edges of the square with just a round of single crochet because that sets it up neat neat and tidy, and then when you're creating your edging, you can see all those stitches to work into. Otherwise, as you're working into your row ends here, you have to kind of think, where am I going to put my hook every time? And if you're using a contrasting color, that can look a little bit messy, and I don't like that. So, After I've finished my last row, I'm going to just continue working my way around placing those single crochets all the way around the edge.

And when you get to the corners, or if you begin at a corner here, you you're going to have to add some extra single crochets. It does not matter exactly how many you do. You don't have to have a perfect amount of stitches all the way around. You just can single crochet all the way around and make sure that it lays flat. So as I'm working into my row ends, I'm just looking for the kind of more dense areas to place my hook instead of finding the holes like this place that can tend to make the hole a little bit bigger.

So I usually am kind of seeking out the areas that are a little bit more, a little bit more dense to stitch into. So I'm just going to be working my way around the square, making those single crochets, and we will check in when I am almost finished. All right, so here I am at the next corner. I'm gonna add some extra single crochets into that very corner. So that way, My edging can lay flat.

I don't want it to cut up or pull upwards. I also don't want to put so many stitches that it starts to ripple. That's when you know that you've got too many stitches going on, and you should do some fewer, you know, fewer stitches. And here I am working across the next edge, just placing one single crochet into each stitch across. All right, I've gotten to the very end of my round here, and I cut my yarn, and I'm going to go ahead and fasten off.

I'm gonna do a little slip stitch there, pull that through, and now we're ready to add our contrasting edging. So I'm going to be using this color here, this color way, and I usually try to find a yarn that's a similar weight. This one's a little bit lighter weight and that's going to work fine. Um, you just don't want something that's a heavier weight because then you might have to, well, you could try that, but then you'd have to adjust your hook and make a much tighter stitch. Otherwise it might start to ripple the edge of your piece.

So that's just something to keep an eye on. All right, so I'm just gonna choose a, you know, just a stitch somewhere near the corner before we get to the corner, and we're gonna pull up a loop. It doesn't matter where. And then I'm going to chain one. And now I'm going to work a single crochet decrease.

So in the starting with the same stitch where I pulled up that loop, I'm going to insert my hook, yarn over, pull up a loop. Then in the next stitch I'm going to insert yarn over, pull up a loop. Now I've got 3 loops on my hook. I'm going to yarn over and pull through all 3. Then I'm going to change 21 and 2.

And now just for this very first Pico, we are going to make a half double crochet into that same first stitch where we joined. So we're going to yarn over, insert back here, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, and pull through 3. So that kind of wraps around everything and slants a little bit backwards. From this point on, we're going to be making that half double crochet stitch in between stitches in our edging round, and I'll show you that in a minute. This one's just a little different because we need to anchor it to something.

All right, so now we are going to work into the next available stitch. So we've already worked into the stitch. We're moving on to the next one, and we're going to pull up a loop in that stitch and pull up a loop in the following stitch. Now we've got 3 loops on our hook. We're going to yarn over and pull through 3 to create our next single crochet 2 together or decrease stitch there, and then we're going to change to 1 and 2.

Now we're going to place that half double crochet, but instead of working it into the stitch, we're going to work it between our stitches in our edging round. So we're going to yarn over and then insert in between our stitches in between those single crochets, uh, decrease stitches, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, and pull through 3. All right, we're going to move on to the next couple of stitches. So we're gonna insert you're over, pull up a loop. Insert yarn over, pull up a loop.

We've got 3 loops on our hook, yarn over, pull through 3, chain 21 and 2. Now we're gonna make a half double crochet right here in between this single crochet two together and this single crochet 2 together. So we'll yarn over. Insert you aren't over, pull up a loop yar aren't over, pull through 3. All right, so now we're coming upon this corner and so we're gonna be doing the same motions, but this time we're gonna be kind of overlapping where we pull up our loops from because we want to create these picos closer together to be able to get around that corner.

So what that means is instead of skipping to the next stitch here, we are going to pull up our first loop from the same stitch that we pulled up our last loop in. So right here we're sharing, we're sharing that stitch with the previous stitch from the edging. So we pulled up a loop there, we'll pull up a loop in the next stitch, yarn over, pull through 3, chain 21 and 2. And then we're gonna make that half double crochet right there. Like that.

OK, we're gonna do the same thing, pulling up a loop in the same stitch we already worked in. And a loop from the next stitch yarn over, pull through 3. Chain 2 1 and 2 And then we'll have double crochet right in that space between this single crochet two together and the previous one. Like that. All right, we're still working around that corner.

I'm gonna pull up a loop in the last stitch we already pulled up a loop in, and then the next one, you're over, pull through 3. Chain 2 half double crochet right here. And now we've kind of straightened out a little bit here, so we're going to be able to just continue working across. We're not going to have to double up on where we're pulling up those loops. So we're no longer going to have to pull it up from a loop we already pulled up a loop from.

We're going to move on to the next, pull up a loop, pull up a loop. You over pull through 3, chain 2. Half double crochet before that single crochet two together. And then pull up a loop, pull up a loop yarn over, pull it through 3, chain 2. Half double crochet in the space before.

Pull up a loop, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through 3, chain 21 and 2. And half double crochet right before that single crochet two together. Right, and so forth. So we just continue working all the way around. Once I get close to the end of the round, we'll check back in and I will show you how to finish that up.

All right, I'm getting pretty close to the end here. Just doing the last couple of icos. Here we go. So I had just the perfect amount of stitches, but you may find that you only have one left over. And if you only have one left over, you can just do your Picot like how you do at the corner.

So let's just say this stitch didn't exist and that was the very last stitch of the round. You would just pull up your loop from that same stitch you just worked. That's not going to cause a problem just in that one little area there. So I just happen to have the proper amount of stitches for everything to work out. So I'm doing my last Pico here.

Chain 2.5 double crochet, just like that. All right. And then we can just fasten off, we just cut our yarn, and we can pull that through that last half double crochet. And then I'm going to place my yarn on a on a yarn needle here, and then I can just go ahead and connect it to that very first stitch that we did, going underneath both loops there. Just like this.

And then I can weave it into. The back of my work. And weave in my yard tails. All right, so this is what it looks like. It looks very cute.

It makes those little nice little bumps very evenly spread out. They don't get kind of curled up or look funny like sometimes other icos do that. These are nice and solid little bumps that kind of stick out. So that's another reason that I really like this stitch pattern. It's super easy to adapt it to almost to adding to almost any stitch pattern that you have.

As long as you do that first round in the same color um as you worked your blanket or your washcloth or whatever before you add this edging. All right, well, I hope you have enjoyed learning all about this new Pico stitch. I hope you have some fun adding a little detail to your projects. Thanks for watching.