Bobble Edge Tutorial

 

WARNING….This is the most fun edging ever and may become addictive!!

Unfortunately, this is not my own design,  I have seen it on several projects and learnt the technique from this blog here.  

I had so much fun adding it to my Happy Ripple, that I just had to do my own tutorial (which is photo heavy), so here it is, let me know how you go with it!

 

You will need a secure base to attach your bobble edging to,  I did a row of treble stitches in cream, then a row of half trebles in shrimp as in the picture below.

If you want your bobbles to be a different colour to your secure base change colour now, attaching to any stitch.  I used the same shrimp colour so did not have to change colour yarn.  Ok, now that your yarn colour is decided on, we can start on the fun part… making the bobbles.  Here we go!

 

Chain 7

The first 4 chains will be the first part of the V that the bobble is suspended from, the last 3 chains count as your first tr of your bobble.  Ok, now you need to make a trtog (treble together) cluster… don’t worry I will talk you through.

First of all yarn around hook and insert your hook into the 3rd ch from the hook…

 

yarn around hook and pull through (you will now have 3 sts on your hook as you would with a regular tr st), yarn around hook and pull through 2sts on hook, yarn around hook and insert into same chain st as before, yarn around hook and pull through, yarn around hook and pull through first 2sts on hook… you should now have 3sts on your hook!  Repeat process x1 more time… so yarn around hook and insert into same chain st as before, yarn around hook and pull through, yarn around hook and pull through first 2sts on hook… you should now have 4 sts on your hook… like this

To finish the trtog cluster, yarn around hook and pull through all 4sts on your hook… cluster completed.  Well done, you have the first part of the bobble done and it should look like this in the picture below.

now ch 3 (counts as first tr of trtog), yes we are going to do another trtog!

so, as the picture above suggests we will be working the next trtog cluster into the top of the previous cluster, indicated by the needle in the picture… ready…yarn around hook and insert into the st indicated by the needle, yarn around hook and pull through (you will now have 3 sts on your hook as you would with a regular tr st), yarn around hook and pull through 2sts on hook, yarn around hook and insert into same chain st as before, yarn around hook and pull through, yarn around hook and pull through first 2sts on hook… you should now have 3sts on your hook!  Repeat process x1 more time… so yarn around hook and insert into same chain st as before, yarn around hook and pull through, yarn around hook and pull through first 2sts on hook… you should now have 4 sts on your hook, yarn around hook and pull through all 4sts on your hook… cluster completed… you should now have something that looks like this

to complete your bobble slip stitch (slst) into the base of first trtog as shown in the picture below

now chain 4

and slst into secure base.  This bit will be purely personal and will need you to make a decision on how you want your bobble edging to be spaced .  For the Happy Ripple I secured with a slst into every 5th ch as this gave me  the best visual impact

 and there you have it… now just repeat the process all the way around what ever it is you are putting this glorious edging on to.  I really hope this tutorial is helpful… please let me know how you get on with it, if something could be made more clear let me know and I will make changes if I can.  I hope you have fun with this process.