CRAB STITCH CROCHET EDGING
A quick and fun way to give an embellished edge to your knitting projects. I find it is easier to first do a single crochet sc and then begin to do the crab stitch. The crab stitch is just the single crochet backwards. So the steps that you take to do a single crochet going from the right to left will now be the same but you will be going from left to right.
Start by inserting the crochet hook into the right side of the work into the center of the v shaped knit stitch or if you have worked a single crochet row into one of the loops. Wrap the yarn around the hook, this is called drawing up the loop, and pull the yarn through and you will have one loop on the hook. Wrap the yarn around the hook to chain one to begin the row. Repeat the steps from the beginning of the paragraph on the right side of the last stitch to the corner. To make a neat turn at a corner you will have to work more than one crochet stitch in the same knitting stitch. Usually 3 if the pattern does not specify.
The Crab Stitch Single crochet stitches are worked the same way down the rows of a knitted piece. You may need to change how often you work the stitches. knitted stitches are not perfectly square they are rectangular so it takes more rows than stitches to make a square. Count how many stitches on the top and sides so that you can add an equal number for each.

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