knitting / crochet question – pl help?
i’ve knit 4.5 X 4.5 inch squares for a throw/quilt with leftover yarn.
i’m now looking for some basic techniques & patterns [knit or crochet] to join them together.
can’t seem to find any in search engines coz i’m probably not feeding in the exact/correct words. will keep looking though. i know this question has been asked here earlier…
can you help me out with any simple pattern or link?
appreciate your input …..
oh, forgot to mention that i want to make a border for each of the squares in a different colour & then join them together. the border could be about 1/2 inch on each side.
i should’ve done it in strips, but came to know of this technique only after i’d already started on the squares a couple of years back.
Lay out your squares on a table or the floor so that you know how many squares you want in width or length.
Start with one square and pick up the stitches across one edge, knit in garter/stockinette/seed stitch for the 1/2 inch or so as your dividing border. Then pick up another of the squares and you can pick up the stitches across one edge and cast off at the same time.
This may sound a bit complex, but put your needle through the stitch on the left needle, then pick up the first stitch on the free square and knit both as one stitch, then do the same with the second stitch and then cast off the first stitch by pulling it over the top of the second stitch and then keep repeating this across the row – this has joined two squares together along one edge. Quite a few people use this method for joining shoulder seams as it saves having to stitch the front and back together by hand.
Note that It’s important that you check you are doing that join on the ‘wrong side’.
If you find it too difficult to do that, you will have to cast off and sew the border row onto the next square.
You then have to keep repeating the above until you have joined one long strip of squares together, then start on the other strips. When you are left with only the long strips of joined squares, you then start doing the same thing as above, this time joining the strips together instead of the squares.
When you have finished that, pick up the stitches along the sides and knit those borders and then finish off by doing the top and bottom borders.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
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