Here’s a step-by-step tutorial for making the crochet square shown in your picture — this style is often called a Popcorn Puff Flower Square or 2-Color Puff Granny Square.

The design uses white as the main color and orange as the puff color.

---

🌼 DETAILED PUFF-GRANNY SQUARE TUTORIAL

---

🧶 Materials

• Main color (MC): White
• Contrast color (CC): Orange
• Hook: 3.5–4.0 mm
• Scissors and yarn needle

---

🧵 Stitch Guide

Puff Stitch (PS)

1. Yarn over (YO)
2. Insert hook into stitch/space
3. Pull up a long loop (same height as a dc)
4. Repeat YO + pull up loop 3 more times
   → You now have 9 loops on the hook
5. YO and pull through all loops
6. Ch 1 to lock the puff closed

(You can do 3 or 4 repeats depending on how puffy you want it.)

---

🟩 ROUND 1 — Center (White)

1. Make a magic ring.
2. Ch 3 (counts as DC).
3. Work into the ring:
   • 1 dc, ch 1 → repeat 7 times
4. You should have 8 dc groups separated by 8 ch-1 spaces.
5. Pull ring tight.
6. Sl st into top of beginning ch-3 to join.

✔ Done: A circle with 8 spaces.

---

🟧 ROUND 2 — First Puff Round (Orange)

1. Attach orange yarn in any ch-1 space.
2. Ch 1 (does NOT count).
3. In the same space, make:
   • 1 Puff Stitch + ch 1
4. In each of the remaining 7 ch-1 spaces:
   • 1 Puff Stitch + ch 1
5. Join with sl st to top of the first puff’s closing chain.
6. Fasten off orange.

✔ Done: A ring of 8 orange puffs.

---

🤍 ROUND 3 — Turning Circle into Square (White)

Attach white yarn in any space between two puff stitches.

We will create 4 corners.

Corner:

2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc (all into the same space)

Sides:

2 dc into each space between puffs

Work around like this:

1. Side space 1: 2 dc
2. Corner space: 2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc
3. Side space: 2 dc
4. Corner
5. Continue same pattern
6. Sl st to join at end

✔ Done: You now have a square shape with 4 corners.

---

🟧 ROUND 4 — Second Puff Round (Orange)

You will place puffs only in the side spaces, never in corners.

1. Attach orange into any side space.
2. Ch 1.
3. In each side space:
   • 1 Puff + ch 1
4. Skip the corners entirely.
5. Go all around the square.
6. Sl st to join and fasten off.

✔ Done: A square with orange puffs placed between white clusters.

---

🤍 ROUND 5 — White DC Expansion Round

This repeats the same structure as Round 3 but is now larger.

Corners:

2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc

Sides:

Work 2 dc into each ch-1 space between puff stitches

Continue:

• Side → Corner → Side → Corner
• All the way around
• Sl st to join

✔ Done: Square gets bigger.

---

🟧 ROUND 6 — Third Puff Round (Orange)

Exactly like Round 4:

1. Attach orange in a side space.
2. Work 1 Puff + ch 1 into every side space.
3. Skip corners.
4. Join and fasten off.

---

🤍 ROUND 7 — White Border (Optional)

To finish your square neatly:

Corners:

• 2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc

Sides:

• 2 dc in each side space
  OR
• 3 dc in each space for a thicker border

Join and fasten off.

---

🎉 Finished!

You now have the same puff granny square with alternating white rounds + orange puff rounds.

---