The final step in knitting many products is the binding of its open edges. This measure is necessary to give knitwear accuracy and completeness.
Border Applications
According to the dictionary, a border is a strip along the edge of the canvas that differs from it in color, texture or pattern. Often, the border serves for decorative purposes. She emphasizes the festive purpose of clothing or knitted home decoration. The most convenient crochet rim. Patterns for the embodiment of any ornaments can be easily found on the net.
Most often, clothing or interior items are supplied with a border, but there are frequent cases of using this element in techniques such as scrapbooking, decoupage, sewing dolls, making jewelry and other crafts.
Using borders for decorating clothes
Crocheted lace border ( some patterns of the ornaments are presented below) decorate clothes very much. It is used to design the bottom edge of the product, sleeves and necks. Quite often, the product itself is knitted with a simple uncomplicated pattern, and the main emphasis is shifted precisely to the lace border. This is true for skirts, dresses, sweaters and pullovers.
Speaking about the use of the border when knitting skirts, one cannot but mention the great opportunity to turn the border into a number of openwork ruffles. The crochet hem (it is better to choose a wider scheme for such models) has an uneven edge, which gives the ruffles additional volume, lightness and airiness. To form ruffles, a rim is imposed or sewn onto the main canvas in tiers. In this case, the free edge of each tier slightly overlaps the first rows of the next.
The practical idea of ββcorrecting the length of children's clothing is also very popular. When skirts, panties and shorts become short, but in other sizes are still suitable for the child, it makes sense to extend their service life. To this end, a crochet hem is sewn to the lower edge. Schemes for this kind of canvas choose simple, and the width varies by the number of rows.
Border for decorating tablecloths and napkins
The border owes its extreme popularity to the efforts of previous generations of knitters, among which pillowcases, tablecloths, curtains, towels and other textile items decorated with knitted stripes were considered fashionable. Many of these traditions have migrated today.
Openwork crochet border for the tablecloth (the patterns should be consistent with the style and ornament of the main tablecloth canvas) can be connected in a circle or with the use of right angles, as well as the border for processing the edges of napkins.
When tying towels, only the end edges are provided with a border, so there is no need to knit corners.
Individual aspects of crocheting
Based on the features of the manufacturing process and appearance, the border may be:
- Flat.
- Circular.
- Angular.
- Transverse.
As for the first kind, everything is elementary here. The length of the border corresponds to the length of the edge, there are no corners. The edges remain loose or stitch together.
The circular way of knitting borders is like the process of knitting napkins. It is important to observe the principle of proper expansion of the canvas. Excessive number of loops will lead to the formation of a "skirt", and too wide the outer edge of the border. However, insufficient addition prevents the formation of a round border. Its outer edge will be tightened, and the canvas - disproportionate.
Corner and cross border
The photo below shows a borderline design for a textile product.
An important feature of such patterns is the expansion of the canvas in a certain place, and not along the entire row, as in circular canvases. Successive additions allow you to form an angle of 90 degrees and ensure the correct appearance of the border. Such crochet border patterns (angle formation schemes can be developed independently) are suitable for processing the edges of any products. When calculating the knitting pattern of the border angle, you should carefully check the number of rapports in each face between the corners. Errors are fraught with incomplete and "circumcised" rapports. Correct calculation is possible only with preliminary knitting and measuring a control sample. This is especially true for knitting this type of strapping, like a crochet border for a plaid (patterns often do not differ in complexity).
Border, tied across, is one of the classic types of such decor. Its specificity in the direction of knitting. The photographs below show that the width of the canvas is the width of the border, and the height of the canvas is the length of the border.
The main pattern is a filet grid with empty or filled cells. The formation of the openwork edge of such canvases occurs due to the reduction or addition of the number of extreme cells.
Custom border use
The development of new types of hobbies and varieties of needlework led to some merging of many branches of applied crafts. Therefore, it is not surprising that the crochet border (the patterns here can be used completely different) is used to decorate postcards, notebooks, albums, chests and boxes.
More familiar and, one might say, traditional is the use of a border for sewing dolls or soft toys and decorating their clothes.
On the network you can find many photos of jewelry and accessories, which are based on border patterns. Knitting narrow long ribbons makes it easy for craftsmen to create belts, scarves, bracelets and necklaces. This form is very suitable for making gift tack, apron or bookmark for books.
To impart rigidity to the rim, it is impregnated with specific solutions. Usually it is PVA glue, gelatin or starch.