June 5th, 2010 
mio I got a new book called Around the Corner Crochet Borders. It came yesterday, and I spent a large amount of time just flipping through it and marking the pages I wanted to look at more thoroughly.
This morning I started trying some of the patterns. Now, this is a book made up of crochet border patterns (obviously), and while each pattern also has a “in rows” version, they are primarily meant to be worked in the round. Specifically, around *something*.
I wanted to get started right away, though, and I didn’t want to have to fuss with the math of getting the right number of sc stitches around a motif, or for that matter, wasting time making the motif to begin with (before you say it: most of the motifs I have worked up already are not square, and would have lead to even more math. Time’s a tickin’!)
I tried the first border I had bookmarked (#26), using the “in rows” version and felt that I didn’t really get a good feel for the border as half of the stitches were backwards. Normally this wouldn’t be a big deal to me, but this was a stitch of particular interest because I’d never heard of it before.
So… there’s a border I want to try, I want to do it in the round, and flat, and don’t feel like making a motif of some sort first. What did I do?
Thank you chainless foundation sc!
Someone on Twitter asked me once (and I appologize for not answering your question there, I didn’t see it until just recently!), how I come up with design ideas. Apparently the answer is: laziness and happy accidents. ^_^
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The border is lovely – and it ties in to the question I wanted to ask… How did you join your chainless foundation row into a circle? I am looking to do crocheted yoga socks (not a knitter) and want to do the first row as HDC C-L Fnd. Your YouTube vids are the best I found for the technique, but I have not found a vid showing how to join it as a circle. (hint) THANKS for the great blog!
Oh! Firstly, I’ve only got one YouTube video and it’s streetcar-related. If you’re refering to the videos like the one I have posted in the top right corner of my blog, that wasn’t made by me, I just thought it was awesome. ^_^
As to the question: I’ve just been winging it (as usual!), but this is what I’ve been doing: When you get to your last stitch before the join, do your yo, insert the hook where you normally would to make the stitch and pull a loop through, then insert the hook into the bottom of the stitch you’re joining to, yo, and pull through it and one loop on your hook . Then complete the stitch as usual and join the top of the stitch with a slst to the top of the first st.
I’ll see if I can do up a picture tutorial for it soon. ^_^