Pillow edging: Crochet Lace Edging Generator

A frame that reserves its corner bases

This study plans a shell finish around a counted rectangular receiving edge. Each long side supplies eighteen ordinary stitch bases and each short side supplies twelve. Four additional marked bases belong exclusively to the corners. The goal is preserving a complete six-base shell repeat on every side while keeping the corner expansion separate. It is a crochet edging plan for a separately made pillow panel, not a sewing pattern or a promise that those counts fit a particular cushion insert.

Prepare the actual receiving edge

Choose a smooth yarn compatible with the panel's intended care and begin with a hook suited to that yarn. Have four corner markers, a start marker, scissors, a needle and a ruler available. Count the exposed insertion positions on a trial panel. If the edge includes row ends, determine an even receiving row from a physical sample rather than treating every row end as a stitch top automatically. The required sixty-four bases comprise sixty ordinary side positions and four corners.

Separate three different budgets

Each long side has three shell repeats and each short side has two. The ten repeats produce fifty double crochets and ten closing slip stitches. The four corners add eight single crochets, giving sixty-eight completed stitches. Their four chain-two spaces contribute eight chains separately. Joining to the first corner single crochet is a slip-stitch join outside the main count. Neither the height chain nor the joining slip stitch becomes another receiving base.

Work the frame in an explicit order

Start at a marked corner with one uncounted chain, then work single crochet, chain two and single crochet into that same corner base. Work three full shell repeats along the following eighteen bases. In each repeat, skip two, work five double crochets in the next base, skip two and slip stitch into the sixth. Work the next corner and two repeats along the short side. Repeat the long-side and short-side instructions once more, then join to the first corner single crochet.

Check fit before attaching a finished pillow

Do not use a side's final slip-stitch base as the next corner. The corner has its own marked source. After the round, fasten off, weave tails and compare each side's three or two fans. Finish the trial as the pillow will be cleaned and inspect its relaxed fit. A correct graph does not certify flatness, because shell height, panel stiffness and tension affect the real edge. Keep pillow assembly and any seam that could cover the receiving row in a separate measured construction plan.

Questions and likely repairs

Why do I have a partial last shell?

Recount the straight bases between the corner markers. Spending a corner on a six-base side repeat is a common cause; repair that boundary rather than squeezing extra stitches into the last fan.

Can this frame join a front and back?

The supplied steps edge one receiving perimeter only. Joining two panels would need specified insertion layers, seam allowance and an independently checked closure.

Are the eight corner chains part of sixty-eight?

No. The main count combines worked posts and closing slips. The chain spaces are recorded separately so the two quantities remain inspectable.

Restore the exact construction

Download the exact saved edge JSON and restore it in the Crochet Lace Edging Generator. Use US terms and yarn #276B65. The selected layout is rectangle, with 18 base positions on the long sides and 12 on the short sides. In UK terminology US sc is dc and US dc is tr. See the chart-reading guide for symbols and source-map interpretation.

1. Prepare a rectangular receiving edge with 18 straight bases on each long side,12 on each short side, and four additional marked corner bases. Begin at a corner: ch1 (not counted),[sc, ch2, sc] in that corner base. Along the following long side repeat [skip2,5dc in next base, skip2, sl st in next] 3 times. Work [sc, ch2, sc] in next corner; repeat shells 2 times along the short side. Repeat those long/short instructions for the remaining two corners and sides. Join to first corner sc without counting the join. 50 dc,10 sl and8corner sc; 8corner chains separately. Fasten off and weave in. Main count: 68.