Here is a easy step-by-step tutorial to make the crochet square shown in your image — a puff-flower square with cross-shaped puffs.

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🌼 DETAILED CROCHET PATTERN — PUFF FLOWER CROSS SQUARE

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⭐ YARN & HOOK

• Hook: 4.0 mm
• Yarn: Medium acrylic
• Colors:
  • A = blue (center)
  • B = white (puff cross + border)

Abbreviations (US terms):

• ch = chain
• sc = single crochet
• dc = double crochet
• sl st = slip stitch
• sp = space
• puff = puff stitch (explained below)

How to make the puff stitch (for this square):

Yarn over, insert hook into stitch/space, pull up a long loop.
Repeat 4 times (you will have 9 loops on your hook).
Yarn over, pull through ALL loops.
Ch 1 to close the puff.

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🌟 ROUND 1 — BLUE CENTER FLOWER

1. Make a magic ring.
2. Inside the ring:
   • Make puff stitch
   • ch 2
3. Repeat the same puff + ch2 6 times total (6 petals).
4. Pull ring tight, sl st into 1st puff to close.

You now have a hexagon of 6 puff petals.

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🌟 ROUND 2 — WHITE PUFFS BETWEEN PETALS

Switch to white.

1. Sl st into any ch-2 space between blue petals.
2. In that space:
   • Make 1 puff stitch, ch 2
3. Repeat in each of the 6 ch-2 spaces around:
   • puff, ch 2
4. Sl st to close.

Now you have 6 white puffs, each sitting between blue petals.

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🌟 ROUND 3 — FORMING THE 4 PUFF ARMS

This is what creates the big white cross shape.

The round alternates between:

• 1 single crochet
• 2 puff stitches in the same space (a puff pair)

IMPORTANT:

You will place stitches into the ch-2 spaces you made in Round 2.

Pattern:

1. Sl st into the 1st ch-2 space.
2. 1st space:
   • Puff, ch 1, Puff (these two form one “arm”)
3. Next space:
   • sc
4. Next space:
   • Puff, ch 1, Puff
5. Next space:
   • sc
6. Continue alternating puff pair, sc, puff pair, sc, until you have:

✔ 4 puff pairs
✔ 4 sc (one between each pair)

Sl st to join.

You should now clearly see four arms sticking out.

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🌟 ROUND 4 — TURNING INTO A SQUARE (DOUBLE CROCHET ROUND)

This round builds corners on top of each puff pair.

Where to insert?

Insert your hook into the top of the ch-1 space between the two puff stitches.

You will work:

Corners (4 corners total):

In the ch-1 space between the puff pair:

• 2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc

Side stitches:

Work dc into each top of sc from the previous round.

Step-by-step:

1. Sl st into the ch-1 space of the first puff pair.
2. Work the corner:
   • 2 dc
   • ch 2
   • 2 dc
3. Next: dc in the next sc (1 stitch).
4. Next puff pair → corner (2 dc, ch2, 2 dc)
5. Next sc → 1 dc
6. Repeat all the way around.

Sl st to join.

Now your work is a rounded square shape.

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🌟 ROUND 5 — FINAL BORDER (Making the square straight)

1. Sl st to first dc.
2. At each corner ch-2 space, work:
   • 2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc
3. On each side, work 1 dc into every stitch.

Sl st to finish, weave ends.

Your finished square should now match the one in your photo —
a blue puff flower center with a white puff cross and a clean square border.

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