Below you’ll find my free granny square crochet pattern just for beginners. If you’ve been wanting to make your own crochet squares for a while but don’t know where to start, this is a great place! I wrote this pattern to accompany a youtube tutorial which you can find below. If you’d prefer the written instructions, it’s all here.
If you’d rather have the ad-free version, you can download the PDF of this pattern here.
Learn to make a granny square with this easy, step by step tutorial. Before you know it, you’ll be whipping up granny squares everywhere, any time!
Basic granny square pattern
These are instructions for a basic beginner granny square. There is a free tutorial attached to this pattern here. https://youtu.be/u0FFaFjJj7M
Glossary
| Ch | Chain. Yarn over and pull through the 1 loop on the hook. |
| Ch sp | The space of gap that has been created by stitches. |
| Dc | Double crochet stitch: Yarn over, insert hook, yarn over and pull through, yarn over and pull through 2 loops on hook. Yarn over and pull through 2 loops on hook. |
| Sl | Slip stitch. Insert hook into chain or chain space, yarn over and pull through. |
To work the granny square, we start with a chain, join it to make a ring and work our first dc cluster into the centre of that ring. After that, we chain and work dcs into every chain space. Once you get the hang of it, the granny square is versatile and can come in any combination of stitches!
Materials required to make a granny square:
- 4mm (US 6) crochet hook.
- A small amount of DK weight yarn. 30g/1oz
- Scissors
Instructions:
Start by making a slipknot.
Round 1.
- Ch 4. Sl in 4th ch from hook.
- Ch 2 and dc 2 times into the centre of the ring. 1st cluster formed.
- Chain 2 and dc 3 times into centre of the ring. (6 dcs in total.)
- Repeat last step 2 more times. (12 dcs in total)
- Sl st into top of first dc chain to join the round.
Round 2:
- Sl across top of first 3 dcs to get to the 1st corner ch sp. Ch 3 and dc twice into ch sp. (3 dcs in total) ch 1 and dc 3 times into same ch sp. First corner done.
- Chain 2 and dc 3 times into next ch sp. Ch 1 and make 3 more dcs into same ch sp.
- Repeat step 2 twice more.
- Sl with top of 1st dc to close the round.
Round 3
- Sl across top of first 3 dcs to get to the 1st corner ch sp. Ch 3 and dc twice into ch sp. (3 dcs in total) ch 1 and dc 3 times into same ch sp.
- Ch 2 and work 3 dcs into next ch sp to corner ch sp
- Ch 2, 3dc in next ch sp, ch 1 and make 3 more dcs into same ch sp.
- Repeat step 1 and 2 to end.
- Sl with top of 1st dc to close the round.
Round 4 and 5:
Work instructions for round 3, 2 more times until you have 5 completed rounds in total. There will be more chain spaces to work between corners as the square gets bigger.
To finish your square, just sl and fasten off.
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