Handling inside corner joining of afghan squares
Copyright 2006 Chris Simon
Vote for me in Top 100 Crochet and Hook Sites ListMy ghans are joined using Priscilla Hewitt's instructions for the "flat braid" joining method.
Lots of people ask how I handle the joining of the inside corners of squares using the flat braid method. These photos should help!
My strategy is to only join the loops that are diagonal to one another at the inside corners. That sounds confusing, doesn't it? It's really not, once you see what's going on.
Here's what it looks like after I join the first two squares. Notice that the corner loops at the top edge have been joined together, but the corner loops at the bottom edge have been left hanging for now. These are part of an inside corner and will be handled when I add the next row of squares.
Closeup of the top (outer) edge
Closeup of the bottom (inner) edge
Here is the first row of my afghan. Notice that the corner loops at the top are joined, but the bottom ones are not.
Now I have added the first square on the second row. I have joined the top corner to its diagonal, but have left the other corner loop alone. You can also see that on the left side, I've joined the corner loops. That's because that is an outer edge of the afghan.
Closeup of inner corner - step 1.
Here's what happens when I get ready to join the next square on the second row. My hook is in the photo to show where I join this diagonal.
This is the finished inner corner.
Another view of the finished inner corner.
Just pay attention as you join each corner to whether it's an inner or outer corner of your afghan, and you should have no problems with this method!
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