Decorative edging

[vaknitter]

I need some help with picking up stitches and adding a decorative border to a baby blanket. I am on a yarn diet and attempting to make a blanket for my niece due in Dec without buying yarn. I had 2 skeins of a varigated yarn that I used for the center of the blanket and now need to add a border to make it a more functional size...I really don't want to do a ribbed border, do I have other options? I see people do crochetted borders all the time, but last time I tried to crochet it took me an hour to chain 3ft.

[Jan in CA]

This would make a beautiful edging.
http://www.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/faq...=442&language=

Here's a bunch more though, too.
http://www.knittingpatterncentral.co...insertions.php