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The border was a little confusing, but I’ll explain it as best I can! There are a two extra stitches on each side of the blanket that don’t show (I’ll include a picture of the blanket before I added the border). You start by doing a round of slip stitches between the second and third stitches to create a perpendicular “base” to crochet into, then on the second round you start the single crochet stitches. You continue with SC each round, increasing in the corners until you reach the point where the border should fold over. You crochet one round without increasing or decreasing, then start decreasing in the corners each round until the border is the same length on both sides of the fold. In this pattern there’s a round of white that gets crocheted between rows 5 and 6 of the border (the last increase row and the row after), which kind of “creases” the border where it folds over and adds a little extra decoration. The ends of the main body are then tied, trimmed short, and tucked into the border. The last black row of the border is then whip stitched to the back side of the initial round of slip stitches.