How To Crochet Spade Stitch Border (With Video)
Crochet Spades Stitch Border – Pattern Description
If you are looking for an easy one-row crochet border to decorate your blanket with, I have the perfect one for you: Spade Stitch Border.
This also has a free crochet written pattern and a video tutorial that is perfect for beginner and seasoned crocheters.
The Spades Border looks like it’s been made with multiple rows, but actually, you are only crocheting one row.
You can make this border on any edge, from square to round. It suits any project you might want to embellish with this textured edge pattern.
I recommend you crochet a base row on your edge before starting the border. Use any plain stitch for your base row, I always make a single crochet row around my blankets before crocheting any border.
If you are making this border for a blanket, check out my base row tutorial for blankets with double crochet rows or base row tutorial for blankets with treble rows to give you an idea of how a base row is made based on the different types of stitches your blanket rows are made with.
Scroll down for the written pattern and the video tutorial.
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Video Tutorial
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Simple But BEAUTIFUL 😍 Crochet Spades Stitch Border – PERFECT For Shawls & Blankets
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Pattern Notes
Pattern Characteristics
- solid
- flat
- double-sided
Pattern Repeat
- no repeats
- multiples of 4x for blankets (round edges)
- multiples of 4 plus 3 for straight edges
Supplies Used
- Marriner Yarns Aran
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- 5mm crochet hook
Abbreviations
Pattern written in US terms using Craft Yarn Council abbreviations.
- st(s) – stitch(es)
- ch – chain
- sl st – slip stitch
- dc – double crochet
- hdc – half double crochet
- sk – skip
- tr – treble stitch
- p st – picot stitch
Special Stitches
No special stitches were used in this pattern.
Pattern Instructions
Join the yarn 1stitch before the corner stitch with a slip knot.
Step 1 (The Corner): Starting from the same stitch where you joined, hdc, (2hdc) in next, ch3, release the loop of the hook, count backward 3sts and insert the hook in the 3rd, pick up the loop and pull it through, ch2, (2dc, 2tr, ch2, sl st in base stitch to create the picot stitch, tr, 2dc, ch2, sl st) all in the ch3 space.
Ch1, (2hdc) in the same stitch where you previously made 2hdc, ch3, release the loop, insert the hook 3sts back and pull the loop through, ch2, (2dc, 2tr, ch2, sl st in base stitch to create the picot stitch, tr, 2dc, ch2, sl st) all in ch3 space, ch1, sk1.
Step 2 (The Edge): *hdc in next 3sts, ch3, release the loop off the hook, count backward 3sts and insert the hoop into the 3rd, pull the loop through, ch2, (2dc, 2tr, ch2, sl st in base stitch to create the picot stitch, tr, 2dc, ch2, sl st) all in the ch3 space, ch1, sk1*, repeat from * until you have reached the next corner stitch.
Step 3 (Making the border along each edge of the blanket): repeat steps 1 & 2 on each side of your blanket (4 times in total). Once you reach the beginning of the round, sl st in the first hdc you made to close the round.
Fasten off and weave ends.
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Pattern Swatch
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Happy Crocheting!
