This free video tutorial will show you how to make a classic crochet flower granny square. Keep reading the article for additional creative granny square crochet ideas!
🌸 Granny Flower Motif (like your image)
✨ Materials:
- 3 colors of worsted or DK weight yarn
- Color A: center
- Color B: round behind petals
- Color C: petals
- 2.5mm–4.0mm crochet hook
- Yarn needle, scissors
✨ Abbreviations (US terms)
- MR = magic ring
- ch = chain
- sl st = slip stitch
- sc = single crochet
- dc = double crochet
- tr = treble crochet
- sp = space
- st = stitch
📖 Granny Flower Motif Instructions
Round 1 (Center):
- With Color A, MR
- Ch 3 (counts as dc), 11 dc into ring
- Pull tight, sl st to top of ch 3 (12 dc)
- Fasten off
✔️ Small flat circle — check for 12 stitches
Round 2 (Petal Base Loops):
- Join Color B into any dc
- Ch 4, skip 1 st, sl st into next st
- Repeat around (6 ch-4 loops)
- Sl st to base of first loop
- Do not fasten off
✔️ You’ll have 6 evenly spaced loops
Round 3 (Petals):
- Sl st into first ch-4 loop
- Ch 3, 2 dc, ch 3, sl st into same loop (first petal)
- Repeat in each ch-4 loop (6 petals total)
- Fasten off
✔️ Now it’ll look like a flower
Round 4 (Square It Up — Granny Style):
- Join Color C into any petal top ch-3 sp
- Ch 3 (counts as dc), 2 dc, ch 2, 3 dc into same sp (corner made)
- 3 dc into next sp (side cluster)
- Repeat around to form 4 corners and 4 side clusters
- Sl st to join
- Fasten off
✔️ Now it’s a granny square flower
📌 Joining Motifs:
- Make as many motifs as you want for your blanket size.
- Join them using the join-as-you-go method or whip stitch or slip stitch seam along edges.
- You can join at the final round, replacing a ch 2 corner with sl st to the adjacent square’s corner, and so on.
📏 Blanket Size Suggestion:
| Blanket Size | Approx Motifs |
|---|---|
| Baby Blanket | 42–56 motifs |
| Throw Blanket | 80–120 motifs |
| Bed Blanket | 150–200+ motifs |
✔️ Adjust motif size by using thicker/thinner yarn or different hook sizes
📖 Optional: Border Finish
After joining all motifs, you can crochet a border around the entire blanket:
- 1 row of dc
- 1 row of (sc, ch 2, sc) picot edge
- Or a classic granny border
