Flower Granny Square Patterns: 7 Free Designs

Flower granny squares can use layered petals, a raised eight petal center, popcorn stitch texture, or a size that scales with whatever yarn weight you have on hand. These seven original patterns provide their hook size, yarn weight, and finished motif dimensions.

Popcorn and puff stitch textures go easier with a hook you are already comfortable using, since the tension takes some getting used to.

Flower granny square patterns to explore

1. Sunflower Granny Square

Crochet Bits’ sunflower square is worked in Red Heart Super Saver acrylic with a 4 mm hook, and it uses four colors: brown or black for the center, yellow for the petals, green for the background and white. Round 1 is 12 stitches, round 2 doubles them to 24, then round 3 makes the petals in chain-3 loops and round 4 works chain-4 loops behind them to sit behind the petals. The page includes a video, and the multiple color changes are the main thing to plan for, so keep your ends short and weave as you go.

2. White Flower Granny Square

Raffaella’s White Flower Granny Square is part of her Tutti Frutti granny squares series, and it is sized to sit alongside a classic four-round granny square, since both come to 4 inches (10 cm). It uses a 5 mm hook and Aran weight yarn (the sample is Paintbox Cotton Aran in yellow, white and cream), with Rico cotton Aran suggested as substitutions. Add more rounds if you need a bigger motif. The raised eight-petal flower makes it a good centerpiece square in a mixed blanket.

3. Popcorn Flower Granny Square

Viv’s flower granny square has a small 3D popcorn flower at the center, and she suggests you can make the flower on its own or turn the squares into a bigger project. It uses 15 g of medium weight yarn (Re-Up and Big Twist Favorite Cotton in the sample) with a 4.5 mm hook, and it comes out 10.5 cm (4.1 inches) square. A video tutorial is included. She also links a flower granny square tote made from 13 of these squares, which shows how they are meant to be joined.

4. Scalable Flower Granny Square

Mama In A Stitch designed this as a quick four-round square and stresses that the size is up to you. With an N hook and super bulky yarn it reaches 9 by 9 inches, and for her Harvest Flower Blanket she used chunky #5 yarn. Match the hook to the yarn label rather than the pattern, and treat the finished measurement as a guide. A picture and video tutorial are included, and the same square appears in several of her other patterns.

5. Free 3D Daisy Crochet Flower Granny Square

Veronika Cromwell’s 3D daisy was written for Granny Square Day. It uses Stylecraft Special DK (a category 3 acrylic, 323 yards per 100 g) in four colors, a 4 mm hook, and four stitch markers, and it finishes at 12 by 12 cm (about 4.75 inches). The flower motif measures about 3 inches across after round 3, before the square is worked around it. The stitch markers are there to mark the petal positions, so do not skip them if you want an even flower.

6. African Flower Granny Square

Carmen’s African Flower is an eight-petal motif that finishes at 4 by 4 inches in DK weight yarn on a 4 mm hook. The sample uses Hobbii Friends DK Cotton 8/6, though she says any yarn works if you match the hook to it. It uses chain, slip stitch, single, half double, double and treble crochet, and comes with a photo tutorial. The designer says it suits beginners as well as more experienced crocheters, and the long single crochet stitches in round four give it the radiating look.

7. Fountain Flower Granny Square

Jessica Underwood’s Fountain Flower builds an eight-petal flower from puff stitches over six rounds, starting from a magic circle. It finishes about 4.5 by 4.5 inches with a US I/9 (5.5 mm) hook and worsted weight Premier Anti-Pilling Everyday yarn, using roughly 0.38 ounces per square, which is helpful when calculating a blanket. The page says gauge is not critical, but the size depends on your tension, so make one test square before you buy yarn for the whole project.

Mixing flower squares

Before planning a blanket, compare the finished sizes. Most of these land at about 4 to 4.5 inches (Raffaella’s, Annie Design Crochet’s, Jessica Underwood’s and Viv’s at 4.1 inches), so they can share a blanket, while Blue Star Crochet’s daisy is 12 cm, close to 4.75 inches. Mama In A Stitch’s square scales with yarn weight, up to 9 inches in super bulky yarn, so it needs its own project or a matching yarn.