Here is a step-by-step guide to make the crochet square shown in the image.
This is a mosaic crochet square worked in the round, using 2 colors (Color A = gray, Color B = orange).
🧶 DETAILED MOSAIC CROCHET SQUARE PATTERN (ROUND–BY–ROUND)
Colors used:
- Color A = Gray
- Color B = Orange
Hook: 5.0 mm
Technique: Overlay Mosaic Crochet in the Round
RULES (important):
- Only one color per round.
- All sc = BLO unless the pattern says otherwise.
- All drop-dc are worked into the front loop of the stitch two rounds below, skipping the stitch behind them.
- Corners are formed by simple increases (usually sc, ch 2, sc or dc).
⭐ ROUND-BY-ROUND INSTRUCTION
Below is exactly what you do on every round, explained slowly.
ROUND 1 — Color A (Gray)
(Forms the center circle)
- Magic ring
- Ch 2 (not a stitch)
- 12 dc in ring
- Sl st to join
✔ 12 stitches
ROUND 2 — Color B (Orange)
(Beginning of 6-point star)
- Ch 1
Repeat 6 times around: - sc BLO in next stitch
- drop-dc into the dc of Round 1 below the next stitch
Join with sl st.
✔ 24 stitches
(6 sc + 6 drop-dc pairs)
ROUND 3 — Color A (Gray)
(Expands the star, adds shaping)
Repeat all around:
- sc BLO in next 3 stitches
- drop-dc into the stitch 2 rounds below
Join.
✔ 32 stitches
ROUND 4 — Color B (Orange)
(Begin forming square corners)
Repeat sequence:
- sc BLO in 2
- drop-dc
- sc BLO in 2
- drop-dc
Join.
✔ The “arrows” in orange begin to appear.
ROUND 5 — Color A (Gray)
(Square shape becomes more visible)
Work around:
- sc BLO in 3
- CORNER AREA:
sc BLO, drop-dc, sc BLO - sc BLO in 3
Repeat 4 sides.
✔ Corners now align as a soft square.
ROUND 6 — Color B (Orange)
(This creates the bold orange inner arrows)
Repeat:
- sc BLO in 1
- drop-dc
- sc BLO in 3
- drop-dc
- sc BLO in 1
Corner: sc BLO, drop-dc, sc BLO
✔ Notice exactly the shape in your photo now.
ROUND 7 — Color A (Gray)
(Gray background fills space)
Repeat:
- sc BLO in all stitches except
- Where last round had a floating orange shape, make:
drop-dc into corresponding FLO below.
✔ This rounds fills the gray maze.
ROUND 8 — Color B (Orange)
(This is the MOST important round — creates the bold orange “maze corners”)
Repeat full sequence carefully:
- drop-dc
- sc BLO
- drop-dc
- sc BLO in 3
- drop-dc
- sc BLO
- drop-dc
Corner:
- sc BLO
- dc (both loops)
- sc BLO
✔ The orange detail that looks like arrows and shapes in the photo appears fully here.
ROUND 9 — Color A (Gray)
(“Locks” the mosaic effect)
Repeat:
- mostly sc BLO
- drop-dc exactly where the orange vertical lines appear
Everything else = sc BLO.
ROUND 10 — Color B (Orange) — FINAL BORDER
(Flattens the edges to match the sample)
- Work sc in BOTH loops all around
- Corners: sc, ch 2, sc
- Fasten off & weave ends.
✔ This forms the nice clean orange border like in your image.
🌟 Your Square Is Done!
When you join many squares, they form the repeating mosaic tile exactly like the right side of the image.