PLEASE NOTE, ALL PATTERNS ARE IN US TERMINOLOGY, CLICK HERE FOR CONVERSION GUIDE.

 

This border is a simple half-double crochet (US crochet terms) worked around the edge; no counting, YAY! Now I know there are some perfectionist and detail-oriented people out there that would really like the numbers and counts for this. But I'm sorry to say I really didn't count.

 

Round 1: Working in Colour B or the border colour of your choice, create one chain (or slip knot) on your size H/8 (5.00MM) crochet hook; insert the hook from the front of your afghan into the first available stitch (not the chain-1 space at the corner) and single crochet. Single crochet to the end of the row (across all four squares); into the chain-1 space work 1 single crochet, 1 chain, 1 single crochet; then continue single crochet down the column (across all five squares). Repeat the single crochet around, inserting 1 single crochet, 1 chain, and 1 single crochet into each of the four outside corners of the afghan.  

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Round 2: Continuing around without turning, chain 2; half-double crochet in each stitch around the entire afghan; into each of the corners of the afghan work 1 half-double crochet, 1 chain, and 1 half double crochet into the chain-1 space of Round 1; at the fourth and final corner you will find your original chain 2: work 1 half-double crochet into the first chain, and then work a single crochet into the second chain.

 

Round 3 & 4: Repeat Round 2; after the final single crochet of Round 4, finish off your yarn and weave in your ends.