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I made a baby blanket, which I’ll show you tomorrow when I can get a picture of the whole thing that doesn’t make it look like plastic (true, it’s acrylic yarn, which is basically spun plastic, but it really doesn’t look like that in person. The problem is a shiny thread that runs through it. Let’s see what the sun contributes to a fantastic picture of it, shall we? There’s little sun to be had at 10:13 pm this far south at this time of year, though.)

In the mean time, check out this border I put on it:

(I feel the need to point out that the yarn in this picture is actually pink.)

This border was done in “crab stitch”, also known as “backwards sc”. For those of you who know how to do a regular sc, basically you do exactly that, but work in the opposite direction from what you usually do. For right-handers, this means that you insert the hook into the stitch to the *right* of the one you’re on. Otherwise the motions are the same. One day I’ll post a picture of this stitch using a yarn suitable for showing exactly what it looks like, instead of this wavy baby yarn that hides all sorts of things.

For those of you who don’t know how to do a regular sc, er… sorry about that. I had hoped to have posted the tutorial for it sooner, but you know what life is like! As a preview: the missing instruction is “insert hook”. I’m guessing that if you thought about it long enough you could probably figure out what that one is all about. The tutorial will be mostly about *where* you should be inserting that hook. (Hint: it doesn’t involve anyone else, no matter how irritating they are ^_-)

(Bonus points if you can name the movie from which the title of this post was inspired)