Border Patrol

Earlier this week I asked about different ways you like to finish afghans. While I'm pretty much a non-border person, I have been known to crochet around a blanket to make it look a little more finished or to add another pop of color. This is pretty easy to do even if you're not a crocheter, and it can make a big difference to the look of your finished project.

Of course you can also knit a border onto a finished afghan by picking up stitches all the way around with a circular needle and working whatever pattern stitch you like. There's nothing difficult about knitting on a border, though you might want to play with a swatch to determine how many stitches you want to pick up around the edges and to decide what kind of pattern stitch you want to use.

Either way, adding a border does add a more finished look to a blanket or afghan that you might want to experiment with (assuming you're not like me and actually either knit blankets that aren't gifts or knit your gift blankies enough in advance that you have time to consider adding a border should you want to).