Around the Corner Crochet Borders: 150 Colorful, Creative Edging Designs with Charts and Instructions for Turning the Corner Perfectly Every Time

by Edie Eckman

A crochet border is the perfect finishing touch on the edges of any fiber project, but creating one often means shaping the edging around an unforgiving 90-degree angle. It’s no easy task, but Edie Eckman guides you through it with style and poise. This collection includes 150 vibrant crochet frames to suit every fiber need, with color photographs by John Polak that showcase the beautiful details of each technique. Now painless, marvelous crochet borders are just around the corner!

Genres: Crochet, Crafts, Nonfiction, Knitting, Reference, How To

316 pages, Paperback

First published May 12, 2010

About the author

Edie Eckman has her hands in many aspects of the fiber artsteaching, writing, designing and editing. Her knit and crochet designs have appeared in many magazines, yarn company publications, pattern leaflets and books. Her books include: Beyond the Square Crochet Motifs, How to Knit Socks: Three Methods Made Easy, and The Crochet Answer Book. Her newest book, Around the Corner Crochet Borders, will be published in early 2010. Edie travels extensively teaching at conventions, shops and guilds. "

Reviews

[Marie Segares]

This book includes 150 stitches, with instructions for turning corners on edgings.

What I like:
There is a large, well lit photograph of each stitch in vibrant, colored yarn(s). (This booklet is fun to flip through!) The book includes a great range of stitch designs for borders, many of which you are unlikely to have in other stitch guides. The special stitches are described within the pattern so you don't have to do a lot of flipping to the back of the book. Each stitch includes both pattern abbreviations and stitch symbols. There is a glossary and guide to stitch symbols in the back. Many of the patterns incorporate different stitches, so that a multiple row border will not just repeat the same pattern each row. Many stitches can be adapted for using throughout the project, rather than solely as a border.

What I don't like (or what's missing):
There is no pattern difficulty rating listed. The binding doesn't lay flat, so it is difficult to crochet and read the pattern at the same time.

Overall, this is a really great book, and a wonderful stitch guide. Even though it would be awesome if the book would lay flat, many other crochet books don't. Similarly, many stitch guides don't include a pattern difficulty rating, so I'm still giving it 5 stars.

[Machelle]

Awesome borders and edging. Great book.

[Erika Hayes]

Great Ideas! Perfect to add a little flair to your next project! I ended up purchasing from my loan.

[Vanessa]

One of my Favourite Crochet border Books.
I have used this several times for my crochet projects and I found it very easy to follow and great illustrations throughout.
Highly recommend to have in my Crochet learning books

[Nicki Markus]

I took up crochet a few months back and have been enjoying it. I have started to make some squares for a blanket, so this book arrived in perfect time, as I will eventually need to pick a border for it. There is a broad range of options in Around the Corner Crochet Borders. Some of the designs I liked, some I didn't. Some looked easy, others harder. But all in all, there should be something here to suit every crocheter and every occasion. Each option was nicely presented, with a photo, written instructions and diagram, so the book is easy to read and to follow. All up, an excellent reference work. 4.5 stars.

[Cory]

Edie Eckman’s crochet books are all fantastic and part of my “Keepers” collection. The pictures are detailed and serve as a creative springboard in finishing off a project beautifully. The writing is clear, which is a huge factor in the usability of a crochet book, right? Huge. I reach for this one regularly, and have matched so many excellent borders to my projects that I find myself recommending the book to everyone who says “I absolutely LOVE that border!”
Highly recommend

[Melanie L. Fritz]

Great book on crochet edgings

Each border motif is well illustrated, along with detailed instructions and corner stitches. Very satisfied with the border patterns. Some more suited for intermediate or advanced crochet.

[Labeba Salameh]

Finally I did it
لم أجرب كل الباترونات لكن الكثير منها
طريقة الرسم واضحة ومدعمة بشرح مثالي
تحوي كل حين نصائح لطيفة
المشكلة الحقيقية كانت بأن الكتاب ملئ بالإمارات القبيحة و المريعة 🙅‍♀️اسفةيا إيدي لكن هناك مجموعة كبيرة كنت أتمنى لو احتفظتي بها داخل أدراجك

[Glenda Clemens]

great book

I really appreciated the detail instructions and that both txt and graphic representations are use. I also like the photos. This will be a very useful book for me!

[Darla Williams]

Lots of information

Found many borders that will be useful and decorative! Handy that it’s in kindle format. I am glad I found this.

[Sharon]

This book is an excellent resource book. There are borders to fit any project.

[Susan Molloy]

An excellent crochet instruction and inspiration book! 🧶

[Kendra]

So many options to choose from and you can lay the corner of whatever you are working on to get a color idea for the finish.

[Karishma]

Superb!

[Judy Dotson]

Ok instruction book

[Alex Richey]

This book is so helpful and inspiring!

[Kelly]

This is vital for the crocheter

[MystiqueLaLynx]

Wonderful

I love the charts/diagrams, the tips and tricks are found throughout the book. The Kindle version is great I can see everything. Lots of great boarders.

[Bev]

Another book that wasn't what I exactly wanted, tho I've used it a few times. I was looking for lacy and most of these aren't.

[2BrytEyz]

Great patterns for beautiful borders.

[Marcie Lovett]

Lots of ideas, some very similar to others in the book, but useful for beginning and more advanced crocheters.

[Kelly]

Great Variety

This book has a huge variety of border designs. They vary in density, fanciness (is that a word?), and difficulty. I'm going to use this a lot.

[Victoria Asher]

This is a standard in my crochet library.

[Bridgette]

I like Edie Eckman... but I was not impressed by the options in this book. The only "decent" ones are on the cover... otherwise I found them frankly kind of ugly.
Others may like it, but I didn't.

[J]

Read on KU.

[Anastaciaknits]

Let me start off by saying I am an Edit Eckman fan, and this book delivers as usual.

This is not a pattern book, it's a crochet resource book for edgings. There are a ton of border ideas here, and it's very easy to customize the borders still more. They are all charted, which is always a plus, and include directions for making edgings on straight items - like the edging on a cardigan - or going around corners, like on an afghan. I love the fact that there are both lacey & textured borders.

[GoldenjoyBazyll]

OK... so I am a knotty girl and I spend alot of time with my crobchet hook. I am self taught by watching u tube and experimenting. I found this book about creating decoative borders and I have bee teaching myself how to read patterns. It is not as hard as I thought it would be because this book is VERY clear. I love how the authors approached the 150 edgings with both charts and detailed instructions. I have begun to create edges of my own aside from the ones outlined! Loving this book!

[Ligaya]

Amazing reference book for crochet borders, specifically those borders that need to turn a corner. With prolific colorful photos, this well designed and organized book makes it easy to figure out what borders may work for you—also sparks ideas for how you can make a teeny change in the pattern to create something totally new. Edie Eckman's crochet books are always a great reference and this one should also make it onto your library shelf. Wonderful!

[Eileen]

Including the instructions for going around the corner was a brilliant idea. Add to that the fact that so many of theses borders are just lovely and you have a keeper. I just finished a baby afghan using one of the borders from the book. It was easy to adapt and crochet. I recommend this book if you're looking for new ideas for crochet borders.

[Nanci Svensson]

Though I lack a sense of fun improvisation, like the edgings you can see In the Japanese Ondori crochet books, this book is great. Good pictures, good copy and it's cool that there are projects based on stitches for edging in the final part of the book. Great reference book, but don't expect to be surprised...