{"id":31,"date":"2007-05-09T19:24:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T03:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=31"},"modified":"2007-05-09T19:28:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T03:28:34","slug":"crochet-granny-squares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Crochet: granny squares"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago, I sat down with my crochet-expert friend, who showed me how to advance beyond basic linear crochet to make circular structures called granny squares. The key idea is to use a combination of double-crochet stitches, which build radial spokes, and chain stitches, which build circumferential bridges between those spokes. By varying the relative length of these components, you get different kinds of structures.<\/p>\n

My first granny squares are shown below. The one on the right is straight out of a basic Granny Square pattern:<\/p>\n

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  • Start<\/b>: Chain 4, join with slip stitch to first chain stitch to make a ring.\n
  • Round 1<\/b>: Chain 3, 2 double-crochet in ring. Chain 2, then (3 double-crochet in ring, chain 2) 3 times. Slip stitch in top of first chain-3 stitch to join.\n
  • Round 2<\/b>: To move yarn to new starting place, slip stitch in the first 2 double-crochet stitches and in the first chain 3 loop (moves to next corner of square). Chain 3, 2 double-crochet in the chain-2 space, chain 2, 3 double-crochet in same space. Then (chain 1, 3 double-crochet, chain 2, 3 double-crochet in next chain 2 loop) 3 times. Chain 1, join with slip stitch to top of chain-3 stitches.\n
  • Round 3<\/b>: Move yarn as in round 2. Chain 3, 2 double-crochet in the chain-2 space, chain 2, 3 double-crochet in same space. Chain 1, 3 double-crochet in next chain 1 space. Chain 1, then (3 double-crochet, chain 2, 3 double-crochet in next chain-2 space. Chain 1, 3 double-crochet in next chain 1 space. Chain 1.) 3 times. Join with slip stitch to top of chain-3 stitches.\n
  • Round k<\/b>: Same as previous, but work the following into each chain 1 space on each side of the square: (chain 1, 3 double-crochet, chain 1).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    The one on the left is from a sweater pattern that caught our eye in a magazine. I’m still not quite sure that we were executing it correctly (and I don’t have a copy of the pattern; this was just for practice for me), but it made a neat structure:<\/p>\n


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    Finally, my friend gave me additional instructions for how to make granny triangles! I haven’t attempted one yet, but I’m intrigued, and now I can’t get tiling methods out of my head. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Some time ago, I sat down with my crochet-expert friend, who showed me how to advance beyond basic linear crochet to make circular structures called granny squares. The key idea is to use a combination of double-crochet stitches, which build radial spokes, and chain stitches, which build circumferential bridges between those spokes. By varying the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}