How To Crochet Granny Squares

Explore a step-by-step guide to crocheting granny squares, authored by How Expert Press and Stephanie Neuman, and narrated by Kelly McGee.

Explore the granny square’s versatile patterns, colors, textures, and yarns to create blankets, garments, and home decor while embracing beginner-friendly, portable variations.

Follow a creator's journey from childhood crafting to interior design, highlighting crochet techniques, hexagon motifs, and the evolution of granny squares into flowers and blankets.

Investigate whether crochet is art or craft, and see how mixing textures, colors, and balance transforms granny squares into heirloom art.

Explore how to harmonize yarn colors using the color wheel, primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, plus complementary and analogous schemes, to create vibrant granny square projects.

Explore hues and tints in granny squares, matching color values and mixing repeats or variations for harmony. Apply practical color theory and view colors in daylight for true results.

Discover how variegated yarns like Harlequin and Passionflower create vibrant, balanced color stories in granny squares, pairing with analogous and complementary greens, purples, and pinks for lively, harmonious blankets.

Explore nature-inspired greens and browns as complementary partners to red, creating color harmony and visual interest in granny square blankets. Utilize leftovers while choosing yarn by weight, texture, and material.

Learn how to gauge and size your yarn for granny squares, use gauge swatches to manage multiple yarn weights, and adapt stitches to create a cohesive, varied yet harmonious blanket.

Master the vocabulary and techniques of basic crochet stitches, including chain, double crochet, and slip stitches, through practical exercises, the magic circle, and granny square patterns.

Crochet granny squares for the Mayflower bounty blanket, exploring motifs, color theory, and yarn and hook choices to plan 40–50 squares in about ten hours.

Master the first granny square pattern, exploring color variations, chain and double crochet clusters, and joining techniques to create versatile blankets and an heirloom piece.

Discover the granny hexagon, a variation of the granny square that reads like a flower and flows organically. Use Mayflower bounty colors—red, green, violet—to create a beehive-like blanket.

Explore grainy star pattern, adding movement and character to a granny square blanket. Use deep purple and pink variegated yarns with color changes at star corners to unify the design.

Master the knitted hexagon, the final pattern for the Mayflower blanket, a more advanced motif with lavender, variegated green, and Harlequin variegated yarn, plus joining and finishing.

Secure the ends with a tapestry needle, then assemble a 55-piece blanket of hexes, stars, crosschecks, and granny squares following the schematic, finishing with a double crochet border.

Master granny squares to complete the blanket with euphoria and pride, then explore new color combinations and patterns to crochet again.

Meet expert Stephanie Newman, a lifelong yarn crafter who blends crochet, colors, rhythm, and balance with interior design to create harmonious crocheted pieces.