How to Do Picot Cluster in Crochet
Clusters of picots make a ruffly edge on garments and accessories. Making them is as simple as making several short chains that both begin and end in the same stitches or another chain-stitched space. To try out picot clusters, polish off a scarf you've knitted, crocheted or bought with crocheted ruffles instead of fringe. You may find them irresistible for gloves, socks, hats and innumerable household items.
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Things You'll Need
- Knitted or crocheted neck scarf
- Sport-weight (size 2) yarn, measuring 10 times the width of the scarf
- Size E (3.5 millimeter) crochet hook
Instructions
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Attach the yarn at one corner of the scarf. Single crochet in that space and chain 2. Single crochet in the next stitch of the scarf, allowing your chain to pouch out a bit. Repeat the chain and single crochet across to the other corner. Chain 5 and turn.
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Single crochet into the first chain-2 space to form the first picot. Chain 7. Single crochet into the same chain-2 space. Chain 5 and single crochet into the first single crochet of the first row.
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Continue across the end of the scarf, making two chain-5 picots and one chain-7 picot in each chain-2 space across.
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Tie off the yarn and work the ends back into the first row.
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Repeat these two rows on the other end of the scarf.
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Tips & Warnings
You can make the clusters even more ruffly by working more and shorter picots into each chain-2 space. Crowding is what makes them bunch up.
Work rows of picot-cluster ruffles across the bottom of a baby girl's diaper cover. If the base garment is too tight to pass your crochet hook through, run a row of back stitch across as the base.
Use a lighter thread, such as crochet cotton, to put a picot edge around any hemstitched hanky or towel, or on the hem of a summer blouse. You can even poke a slim steel crochet hook right through a light fabric to make the first row.
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