Granny Square Patterns: 7 Free Designs
Granny squares can be traditional and open, solid, sunburst-shaped, or turned after each round for a reversible result. These four original tutorials explain the different stitch placement and construction choices.
A hook you are comfortable holding is really the only tool these four tutorials assume you already have.
Granny square patterns to explore
1. Traditional Granny Square
Tamara Kelly at Mooglybegins with a chain-4 ring and four chain-2 corners. Each round adds three-double-crochet clusters in the chain spaces, with chain-1 gaps along the sides. The tutorial sample uses worsted-weight yarn and an H hook; four rounds measure roughly 4 to 5 inches, depending on gauge.
2. Solid Granny Square
Tamara Kelly at Mooglystarts from a chain-4 ring, then fills every side with double crochet worked into the prior round stitches. Corners use a double-crochet, chain-2, double-crochet group, creating a denser fabric than a classic granny. It can be continued as one large square or made in individual motifs.
3. Sunburst Granny Square
Cheryl Bennett at Crochet 365 Knit Toouses four colors of worsted-weight scrap yarn and a US G/4 mm hook to make a 4 by 4-inch motif. A 16-double-crochet center becomes puff stitches, then bobbles; the final round uses double, half-double, and treble stitches to turn the flower into a square.
4. Easy Crochet Granny Square
Sarah Stearns at Sarah Makeruses worsted-weight yarn, a 5 mm/H hook, and a magic ring or chain ring start. Three-double-crochet clusters are worked into chain spaces, with chain-3 corners for crisp shaping. Turning after every round makes the fabric reversible and helps prevent the square from skewing.
5. Solid Crochet Granny Square, No Gaps
Carmen Heffernan at Annie Design Crochet works this gap-free version mostly in double crochet, with treble stitches at the corners to keep the square flat over four rounds. The sample uses DK weight yarn on a 4.5 mm hook and finishes at 4 by 4 inches, though it scales up easily with extra rounds for a larger motif.
6. Crochet Puff Stitch Square
Robin at Hooked by Robin works a repeated puff-stitch row that you continue until the square reaches your desired size, in any yarn and hook combination, using a hook slightly larger than the yarn label recommends for extra loft. The puff stitches give it noticeably more texture than the flat-cluster squares above.
7. Crochet Perfect Granny Square (No Twisting)
Viv at VivCrochets finishes at 12.5 by 12.5 cm in medium-weight yarn (about 14g total) on a 5.5mm hook, hiding the color changes so the square avoids twisting and ends with only four loose ends to weave in.
Choose the fabric
Choose traditional clusters for openwork, solid granny stitch for a denser square, sunburst for a color-centered motif, or Sarah Maker’s method for a turned reversible square.
