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How to put edges on a crochet blanket?

I'm making my baby a crochet blanket and I would like to put the frayed edges on it but I dont know the "proper" way to put them on there can someone please explain to me step by step how to do this.

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1. I depends on the edging but this would be an example if you did single crochet all around but you'l get the idea no matter what you do. Across the top you just crochet in the stitches like normal. Now down the sides you are going to be croching on the sides of your stitches evenly. If you have a single crochet blanket, each row would be one stitch per row. If you have double crochet, there are two stitches per row. Across the bottom you have the part of the chain you didn't crochet in and that's where you will be crocheting your edging (can be a littel tricky of your chain isn't real loose so it might tack a little patients). Then do the same as you did on the first side. It might seem kind of chaotic croching down the sides but just remember to figure the number of stitches per row and you'll be fine. And just pick the same spots when working down the sides to crochet in to make some kind of order to it.
2. Are you asking about putting fringe on the edges? Strands of yarn attached to the sides? If so, let me suggest that this isn't really a good idea for a baby blanket, babies tend to put these things in their mouths and can swallow the fringe which can cause harm if it gets caught in their throat, or get their fingers or toes wound up in it and cut off circulation. It would be better to simply to a crab stitch border, which is backward single crochet to edge it. But, if you insist on fringe.... Find a paperback book and wind your yarn around it twice for every stitch you worked across the width of the blanket and twice for every row of the blanket worked. Cut along one edge only. Keeping the strands folded, take your hook and pull the center fold through the stitches at the edges an then pull the ends of the strand through the fold and snug up to tighten. Trim all the ends even when finished, something easiest done with a quilter's mat, quilting ruler and a rotary cutter.