How to Crochet Granny Squares

1. Class Introduction: Hi there. I'm Lisa, and welcome to my how to cater Granny squares class. I've been crocheting for about 15 years now, and I work as a crochet teacher and published Carty patterns under my nickname of misses Lamb. I'm really looking forward to teaching you how to make Granny squares and going through what you can use your finish gunny squares for. You'll learn all the stitches and techniques needed to make a granny square in this class, including how to work in the round and how to change colors. You will learn how to make both a traditional style granny square and a solid granny square. We'll then put all your new skills into use in our class project, where we'll ct a large granny square that you can continue working on after the class to make into a blanket. You will need some basic cheer skills to take this class. You'll need to know how to make a chain stitch, double crochet, and slip stitch. Although I do go over how to make double roche stitches in this class as well. 2. Lesson 1 - Materials and Tools Needed to Crochet Granny Squares: Fed, I'm just going to go through which materials and tools that you will need for this class. You'll just need the basics for this class. You will need yawn. I've got a double knit yawn here and you will need a hook in the correct size to go with your chosen yawn. I'm using a 3.5 millimeter hook with my double knit yawn. If you're unsare about which size hoop you need for your yawn, have a quick look at the label on your ball and it should tell you the correct size on the back to use that particular yarn. You can either make your granny square or with one color of yawn, such as this square where I've used a variegated yawn for it. Another option is to do a granny square where you change color on every single round. If you want to do that, I will explain that in one of the videos further along in the class. We did want to do a mult coolred square, then you'll just need a couple of different yawns around about the same thickness like I've got here. It would also be useful to have a pair of scissors and a sewing needle at the hand just for finishing off your granny squares at the end. 3. Lesson 2 - How Granny Squares are Constructed : In this video, I'm going to go through a short introduction to Granny squares, and we'll go through what they are, how they're constructed, and what you can use them for. The first thing that I just want to go through before I start this lesson is just to say that the terms that I use in all of my classes videos patterns, I always use what's known as US cro terms. You will find that patterns are either written in a UK or US set of tier terms. It just depends on where you've learned to crochet. I learned using US videos and books and what have you. And that's just the terms that I picked up. What I have done is in the class project section of this class, you will see that there's a download for you, which explains the class project, but it also has in there lots of useful information that you might want to keep handy. It's got a table in that download that explains what the different names are between different terms. For instance, these granny squares, I would call this as the Minster double cro in the UK, that would be referred to as t, treble croche. That chart will basically say that this is called one thing in the US and one thing in the UK. As long as you check your pattern or your class to see what terms they're using before you start, then you will be absolutely fine. As you say granny square, the basis of it is it's obviously a little square. They've been around for a really long time and there's and lots of different variations of granny squares that you can make. You can see this one on the right that I've got here. Has gaps in it. This one is made up of little clusters of stitches, three double cot stitches, and then we have what called chain space in the corners. And we've basically got that repeated in around to make the little square. This is probably the most popular granny square that you will see, or you will see that this one is quite popular as well. This is what we call a solid one. Instead of having the gap in like this one, we've just worked double quart along the whole line. In this class, I'm going to teach out to make both. L I say there's a hundreds of different ones. If you have a look on Pinterest or Google, you see that there's ones that have stars in the middle, ones that have heart in the middle, have circles, animals. Anything you can think of, somebody will have designed a granny square for it. It's really good as well if you're a beginner and you're just wanting to expand your skills because a granny square is really versatile. You can make lots of little ones like this and you can then join them together. So seem them more together and make it a blanket. One thing that's quite fashionable at the minute is the granny square cardigans, jumpers and other items of clothing, which is basically just the same concept of lots of little squares joined together according to the pattern. You can make one big granny square, which is what we're going to do in the class project. That is really good to do because it's basically your first round of your square, your second round and then the third one repeats itself for as long as you choose to keep going. You could make an absolutely huge blanket and just keep going over that third round and using those instructions to keep going till you're happy with the size. That person is my favorite type of requiring square because it means I've got no joining to do to make a blanket. Now, what you will find is with the granny squares, in terms of how they're constructed, it will be a little bit different if you've just learned to crotate, and you've learned to cotate into a straight chain. With a granny square, they're constructed in the round, which you can probably see easiest on this one. You can see in the middle, we've got a little circle. That is a ring that we make to begin with, so we'll make a little chain ring there. Then what we do is, we then work all of these stitches into that ring for the first round. We're basically making of say three stitches here, a corner, more stitches corner. It's a four repeat into this little chain in the middle, and then we join it at the end of a little slip stitch. That's what makes it in the round. Then your next one, you're just working round it again. You've already got your little square from the first round, and you're just building onto it. 4. Lesson 3 - How to Make Double Crochet Stitches: This video, I'm going to show you how to make a double ct stitch. Now, to start with to do this. I've got some double it yarn here, and I've got the corresponding hook of the right size with three half mil hook. First thing that I'm going to do is to make a chain quickly. I'll just do that. Now for double crochet, you will need a turning chain of three chains. I am going to do five double croche stitches. I'll need the five chains plus three extra, so I'll just chain eight here. One, two, three, four, 56, seven, eight, let's check how many of ****, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Yeah. So for double coche, We're going to leave a turning chain of three, as I said. We'll be working into the fourth chain from the hook for the first stitch. Now, the way I crush into a chain, I crush into these little humps on the back, a lot of people will go into the vs on the front there. Using the little humps on the back is just an easier way that when I learned how to crotch and it's the way I generally teach students how to do it because it's a bit easier. Do it whichever way you normally would, but we're going to start by going into the fourth chain from the hook. O, two, three, and this is the fourth. The first thing we're going to do, for double crochet is yarn over. And then we're going to put our hook through the chain stitch there. Y over again, we pull that yarn over through the chain stitch like so. We've now got three loops on our hook. Now the next thing that we're going to do is we're going to go yon over again. This time we're going to pull the y on through the first two loops on your hook. Se now just got two again. Then just as the last stage, we're going to yarn over again, and then this time we'll pull this yarn over through both loops that we've got left. It goes back to the one that we've got there. You can see we've got one double cote stitch there formed. I'll go through the next few quite slowly. Don't worry if you've got to rewind the video, watch it again. That's absolutely fine. Just do it at your own rate. The first thing we do is yawn over, and then I'm going to go into the next chain stitch there. I'm going to yarn over again and pull it through my chain stitch. I've now got the three loops there on my hook. I'm going to yawn over once again, pull it through the first two. Y over again and pull it through the remaining two. I'm back to one there. We go yawn over. Cook through the stitch, the chain stitch, Yawn over again, pull it through that chain stitch, and then we'll yawn, pull it through the first two loops on the hook, and then we'll yawn over and pull it through the second two. See, we've got three there, three double cot stitches, and we've got the chain three here that was the beginning. We've got two more stitches left, so we'll just do them. Yawn over, insert your hook into your chain stitch. Yan over again and pull it through that chain stitch. We're going to go y over again and pull it through the two, Yawn, pull through the two again. P a little bit more y. And for our last one. To this little last chain stitch here, we're going to go y over through there. Yawn over again and pull it through that chain stitch, Yawn over, pull through two stitches, Yawn over and pull through the two stitches again. You can see now, we put this down on the table. We've got one, two, three, four, five, double ct, and our three chain to start. Now do our next row. Again, we're going to need a turning chain of three. We'll just do our chain now one, two, three, and then we'll turn the work over. Then for the first edge of this row, we're actually going to work not into this one at the base, but into that double ct you can say it the second one. This is just going to give you a cleaner more even edge. We're going to work into this one here first. To do into existing stitches. Rather than obviously, before we went through the chain, we're going to go through these vase on the top. We yawn over. We go into that second one. Through that. We're going to yawn over and pull it that stitch, Yawn over, pull it through the first two loops you've got, yawn over, and pull it through the second two that you've got. That's your first double the stitch there. So I'll repeat this again a yarn over through next stitch, Yawn over and pull through that. Yawn over, pull through two. Yawn over and pull through two. Just going to grab a bit more yarn, my ball. So Yawn over again. Pop your hook through the next stitch. Pull yawn over there, Sg your three loops. Yawn over and pull through the first two, Yawn over and pull through the second two. Yawn over into the next stitch. Yawn over and pull through that stitch. Yawn, pull through the f two, yawn over, pull through the second two. Now, what we're going to do for our last and final double coors stitch. This is our chain three starting chain that we had, the three that we left at the beginning of our first rule, and we did our first stitch in the first rule. What we're going to do is, we are going to work into the third chain of that starting chain from the last row. See on the side a bit better. There's one, two, three. This one at the top here is the one that we are going to work into. We're going to do our yawn over. Then we're going to put our hook through the two loops of the third chain in this starting chain. We're then going to yawn over what we normally do, pull it through the first stitch. We've got our three on the hook, Yawn over, pull it through the two, yawn over, pull it through the two again. Now you've got two rows of double, and you can see it's got nice straight edges there. You can see now that you've got your one, two, three, four, five, double to stitch is there in your second draw, your turning chain, and you've got your starting chain, one, two, three, four, five there as well. That's how you do your double cautious stitch. 5. Lesson 4 - How to Crochet Round 1 of a Traditional Granny Square: Okay. In this video, we are going to learn how to do a traditional style granny square like this one. A traditional style granny square is made in the round like all grane squares, but it has got clusters of stitches, so you can see here if I just pop it up here. You can see here you've got your center, but then you've got three double casar stitches there. Then this little gap here will be made with chain three. You would chain three stitches. Then you're going to repeat that another three dams. You do another three double crosta stitches, then a chain of three in the next corner, and then another three double casar stitches, C chain three for the corner, another three double cross, and then chain three for the next corner. Then you would slip stitch that to join it into the first one that you made. So We're going to stop by doing this part. What I'm going to do for the purposes of teaching you these gane squares. I'm going to use the fixed chain method to make my ring in the middle. Whoever if you wanted to do it with matric circle, you could do it that way. But I'm just going to do that because I find that a little bit easier. I'm going to do chain four in the beginning. I'll just pop this to one side. The other good thing actually with these granny squares, I'm going to teach you later on is that you can change colors as well. If you wanted to do one that's all one color like this because this is actually a variegated ion, you can, or you can do one where you change color after every round. I'm going to start by making my chain. I do my slip knot put my hook through. I'm going to make a chain of four, one, two, three, four. Once I do my chain of four, I'm going to slip stitch into this first one in my chain. Slip stitch that pull it through there. Pull it through the one you hook and you say I've got this tiny little ring there. All of the stitches in my first round are going to go through this. What I'm going to do to start is, I'm going to make three chain stitches. Make my chain here. One, two, three. Now, that will count as my first double crochet in my first cluster of three stitches. It's useful to remember that. Do my chain three, and then I'm going to do my yawn over. I'm going to work the hook straight through the middle of the loop, going to yawn over and pull it through the middle. Ya and pull it through two, and then the two. Then I'm going to do another double croch into the center of the spring. We've got our two doubles. You can see that makes my first three cluster. Even though that one's a chain, but it looks pretty similar. Then this is the first corner that we're on. We're going to do a chain of three to me the corner, and then we're going to just rotate it like that, so 90 degrees that. We're going to do our next cluster of three, our first. And then we're going to do a second do cart through the ring. We are going to do a third. Then we've got our second cluster, first you can see, and we've got a first and second cluster. We're going to do chain three again. 123, we're going to rotate the work again. And then we're going to do three double and c again. Got 12 three. I'm going to chain three again for the corner. One, two, three, rotate it. See now I've got my two bottom corners. I'm going to do my last of three double rotate in the beginning and so one, two Then three is my last one. Then just to form the last corner, I'm going to do with chain three. I've got one, two, three. I'm going to turn it. What I'm going to do is I am to join this round, I'm going to slip stitch it. You can see this one here, is your chain three from the beginning. You've got your first chain, second chain and your third one. We're going to do a slip stitch at this top one here. We're going to go through both of the loops of the third chain in the starting chain for the round. We're going to pull through there to make the slip stitch. And then we're going to pull it through the one on the hook and there you can see we do our first round. I'll just pull the lip bits and take my hook out and show you. C and C now, you've got your four little corners that are all chain three. These are often called three corner spaces. Chain three corner spaces. These are your three little cluster, four little clusters of three double pushes that make up the beginning of chi square. 6. Lesson 5 - How to Crochet Round 2 of a Traditional Granny Square : Okay, next, we are going to go through how to make the second round of your traditional style granny square. Now, we ended where we had on the last round where we slip stitched into the chain three of that last round to join. Now to start the second round, we are going to need to go to this corner space over here on the left, to get to this corner, going to slip stitch into this first double crochet. Pull your through. Pull it through that one slip, and then we'll do it in the next double croch we're slip stitching. There. Then lastly, we're going to slip stitch in the corner. Put it through put you hook through the corner space, and then we'll pull through and we'll make a slip stitch. You can see that we're now at this corner, here. The first thing we're going to do is, we're going to make our chain three to start again, 02, three, and this is going to form the first double croche. It's going to be counted as the first double cloche in the cluster double going to put in this corner. We are going to do two more double crotch here, so we're going to go run of and into the corner space, pull it through the corner space. Just like you were working with the ring in the first round where you were working all your double crotches through that. W these ones through this corner space here. We do a double crotch there, we'll just grab some more yarn. We do our last double crotch of the section, so was born. Two, three, and we've got our one, two, three there, cluster of three double push stitches. Then like we did in the last round where we did three chain stitches to make a corner. That's what we're going to do here. Basically, when you're making your clusters into your corner spaces, you're increasing. You're doing that on every round. See here that on your first round, you've got one, two, three, four clusters. But on your second round, you've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, you're increasing on every corner. Back to this, we're do our first cluster of our corner this. We're going to chain three against one, two, three. Now we're going to turn this because the next that we're going to well at this corner space, but they're going to be along here. We're going to do three double cart stitches. That's the first one. Do our second one, and then we'll do our third one. You're starting to see here, I just pop. I ho out the whay a little bit. You can see here that you've now worked two clusters and then you've got this chain three space in here, which is going to make another corner space like this one. They go up diagonally. The next thing that we're going to do is we're not going to work into any of this cluster here, so any of those three, we're going to skip them, and we're going to go straight for this other corner. We're going to do our yarn over, and then we are going to put our hook into this next chain space, this next corner space here, and we're going to work our double quote like so into there. Once we finish in this chain space, we skip these three, we yarn over and we put our hook through the second corner and we work our next cluster of lot of stitches into this one. On double cart there. We're going to do another two. We do our first cluster in this corner. We're going to do another three chain. And then we're going to do another three double ct here. To finish off this corner. Now see we've now formed two corners. Again, we're going to skip these three double cot here. We're going to yawn over and we're going straight into this corner with a hook. Straight through that chain space, do the first and do two more for this c. That's my first, three, do quart, chain three for the corner. Then you're going to go and do our next. Set of. We're doing our next set of double stitches. There you go got the third corner. Again, we're skipping thee, over straight into the next corner, do our next double quart stitches.'s go out a little bit more ya. Then we're going to do our last little cluster. We're going to do chain three, for last corner. One, two, three. We're going to do our three double into this corner. Here on this side. Now to finish, what we're going to do is, we are going to slip stitch again like we did in the first round to join. This time, we're still slip stitching in the first chain three. But obviously, we've got a gap. We're going to go for this chain in the first starting chain. We got one, two, three. We're going to ski. We're going to put a hook the th chain and this starting chain. X so, and then we're going to slip stitch. Pull it through that one and then we're going to pull through the one on my hook. I'll just pull micro out the way a little bit, C and C. C and C now, you've got your first round there and then you've got your second round. C and C, these are increased. You've still got your four corner spaces there, diagonally out from the ones in there, but now you've also got these gaps on each side. In the next round, you're going to make equal son to each one of these gaps as well. 7. Lesson 6 - How to Crochet Round 3 and Further Rounds of a Traditional Granny Square : Okay, so we're now going to do our third round of our traditional style guni square. Now, this round is repeatable from this point mites. However big you want your grani square to be, if you want to make a giant one, if you want one of six rounds, ten rounds, you just repeat this third one now. So basically, you've only ever got three rounds that you actually need to remember because the first two, obviously, the first two rounds are the same, and then the third one is the same for the rest of the rows. That's what makes gi squares so verstil, you can do them whatever size you want. Again, like before, I do want to start in this corner. What I'm going to do is, I'm going to slip stitch into these two double crotch here because we've already slipped stitch at this one to join with the last round. We're going to slip stitch and then two and then into this corner again. Pop your hook through the first double crochet a slip stitch. Now and make your slip stitch. The second one, and then put your hook through the corner space and slip stitch into that one. Now, as of the last two rounds, we're going to start with a chain three, which is going to count as our first double crochet of this little cluster that we're making. One, two, three, So we're going to do our first two double cross into space as before. And calls our first little cluster of three. In this corner, we're going to do a chain three for the corner. Then we're going to do our next three double t. Obviously when you're doing your corners, I to rotate your piece around. Hopefully, by this point, you're starting to get the hang of a little bit of how granny squares are put together. You always say, feel free to watch the video. However many times you want, when I was learning, I watch videos. Pay about 100 times all that clicked. But really practice makes perfect. We rotate be honest. We've done our first two double cote clusters here with our chain space. Now, from this round onwards, we're going to have this little space in between clusters from the round before. As well as increasing, like we said, do two into each corner like this, which is where you increase the square. We're also going to work in every single little gap between the clusters here. We're going to skip these three. We're going to do our yarn over and put a hook through this hole in the middle of this little gap. And then we are going to pull way on through and do our double course the same way we have been in the corners, and we're going to do our three here into the scap. We've now got our little cluster of three there into this space. Then we're going to skip this stitches again and we're going to go in this corner again, do three more double this corner. Because granny squares are so repetitive. Once you've got the hang, the sky is the limit on how big you want your square to be. We've got a three there, we're going to do our chain three corner, and then I'm going to do another double quart there. That's a second corner in there. Then again, we're going to go into this little chain space in between my two clusters. We're going to miss these three, and we're going to go straight into the over the gap. D double second one. Double. Then we're going to jump these three again, skip these three and go into the next corner. We're doing our three and do this little corner. Then we're going to do a three for the corner. One, two, three, turn it, and we're going to do our double to complete corner here. That's the third corner done. And we're going to do it into this again. So straight in through there with your hook and do your three. Double crochet into that. And then we're going to ski and into this last corner. So two or three double. I do a three, one, two, three, and then we're going to do last three double into here. Then the last bit of completed We're skipping these two and we're going into this middle space here for our last cluster. 02, three. Now we're going to skip these three, but we're going to slip stitch into the third chain third chain stitch of this chain three that we started with for the round to join in the circle. Join in the round. We're going to go for one, two, three, that one there. Pop the hook through there, and then do our slip stitch. And you can see now. We've got one, two, three, rounds. You can see the corners now come out diagonally, and you can see that now you're actually working on all of the gaps as well. What I'm going to do is, I'm going to do another round and I'm going to do it really quickly. I won't talk through it, but I'll just go through and see exactly how this looks after the fourth round and so on just by repeating the third. We'll get into this corner to start. Y. So starting fourth round here. You can see now we've got two spaces to work in on the next one, we have three and so on and so forth. Doc on this side. L et's see. I've got my first side done there already. So you've got two in the gaps here and then two corners. Okay. And now you can see that I've now done another round. I've got one, two, three, four rounds, and you can see I've just continued to go into each space in between clusters and other corners to increase. 9. Lesson 8 - How to Crochet Round 3 and Further Rounds of a Solid Granny Square : Just going to go through and show you round three on the square. Now, again, like what we said with the traditional square, you do repeat the third round. The second and third rounds are quite similar, but you basically just repeat the third round for as long as you want until the granny square is the size that you want. You could keep going on for 100 rounds if you wanted to. It just makes let's say more versatile in terms of what size you would get from them. The first thing that we're going to do again is we're going to start with our chain three again, which is going to count as our first double crochet in this round. Then we're going to work this time again into all of the doubles from the round before. Obviously, we've got more now than we had in the last row. We only need the last round, sorry, we only had the three. From the cluster from the first round that we worked to on the second round. On this one, we've now got the increased stitches in the corners and this. It's still the same principle really. You're just working into all of the stitches and then you're increasing into these corners. What we're going to do is, we're going to do our three and then we're going to work our double into that next one there. You can see. Now, we're just going to continue doing our double art in all of these stitches from the side. I got one more on this side. Then I've grabbed some more yard. We're going to do our increases into this next corner. We're going to do our two double quarter into this side of the corner, so we're going to do one, and then two. We're going to do our chain three to make our little corner space, one, two, three. Then we're going to rotate. It's likely we're going to do our next two double rotate in this corner. So we've got the one. And two. Then we're back to working into these ones. Always be careful when you're doing a solid square that you're making two doubles in your corner space, that you're not covering where you'd work into this solid stitch. It for some reason, I always seem to do that where these are pushed over over too far and I end up with that one hidden away under that one. Always make sure that you're working into this one after your corner. We're going to do double cot across these solid ones here. So obviously, on every role now, this amount that you've got to work into from the last round is going to increase by four on each side. We back a corner. We're going to work into this chain space, this corner space here, with our two double cross. Then we're going to do our three in this corner. Do our next double crow on this side of the corner. Now again, I'm going to start working into these stitches for this side. Again, don't miss that one there. This is the one that I was saying sometimes hides. So we've done our existing sites then, we're back to increase in our corner. So do two here. D 03. I do our next. Cross you on this side. Then we're starting back into work on this side here. Not missing that one into there. Do our last two here. I like to bring into our last corner space here, we're going to do double into this corner. We're going to do our three, one, two, three. Then we're going to do next double into this corner. S. Then on this round, you can see because we started from where we left off on the last round with our chain. We've now we two more here before the end of the work into. We're just going to do what we've done with the other rounds and just work into these two by doing another two do car into them. Then the same principle as the other rounds to join it in the round, we are going to slip stitch into the third chain in the starting chains. You've got one, two, three, through this stitch at the top and we're going to slip stitch. And there we go. T rounds so far. You're starting to see how it becomes more solid looking. What I'm going to do is, I'm just quickly going to do another round just see and see exactly how it works. I'm just going to speed up a little bit and just hopefully just watch how this is going to build. So now that I've done the four rounds, you can see how this starts to grow, and how are you just following the same round on every round and just duplicating that until it gets to the size that you want it to be. 10. Lesson 9 - How to Join New Yarn Colours While Making Your Granny Square: This video, I'm going to show you how to change your color of yarn when you're working on Granny square. Now I've got my traditional so one and my solid one here. I've got two very short ends. Ignore that. Normally you would leave quite a long end fat to sow. I had actually already sawed these in, but I've just pulled it out so that you can see where my last round ended. When we end around in the particular color that we want to finish working, basically just tie off the granny square as you would normally. We're going to do a slip stitch and then just cut the on and pull the on through the last stitch to tighten it. Now as you can see here with this traditional style one, because we have always slip stitched and began in a corner space, That's where the beginning and end of round is. With the solid one, we tended just to start where we had end of the last round because we're working in all the stitches. But what we're going to do is make a little bit easier is we are going to just join the yarn for both in the corn a spaces. Now, you see on these I've done three rounds on each. These are actually both one yn. This one is this pink and yellow type variegated on, and this one's blues and purples. They are actually done with the same yarn for all three rounds though. What I'm going to do is, I'm going to join in. Now I'm going to do this on the solid one I think and the traditional one. You can see the differing way that it would work. But We'll just go with the traditional one first. You can see that I've ended the, the ram there of the last one, and I'm going to put my yarn into here at the scap here into the corner space. Now this an that I'm using here isn't as different with this one, but you'll be able to see the technique anyway. We're going to thread this new an through this corner space. So aims it's easier with a hook, some aims it's easier just to do it with your hands. See we've put that straight through the corner space, and then I'm just going to tie you on. See there where I've noted it into my corner space. Now, what I'm going to do now is, I'm just going to hold this other end out of the way. And you can see, I'm going to put my hook through the corner space, and I'm going to yarn over and pull a lip of yarn through the side of the corner. I'm going to do a chain stitch, and that is just basically starting me off there in that corner. Not a little b far over, I just adjust that. Can see I've got one chain there. If I do my next two chain to start my round, this again will count as your first double in your rounds. We'll do our three double cross as we would. And our chain three for the corner. We'll do our three, double cache on this side. I'm just caching over my end where I've changed my yarn, you don't have to do this, but just secures the end of it, but I see see there that I've just started, and I've done my first corner already. You can't see where I've joined it really. That's where I've nodded it in. You just continue to do your whole round and then join it there. If you're always joining in the corner, it just continues the pattern of the style of granny square. That's why we just noted in there. Now, what I'm going to do is, I'm just going to go back and I'm going to show how to do this on the other style. Now we should be able to see a bit better on this one because it's more differenter. But you can see That is where my third round ended. I'm still going to add it in the corner though. With this one, we're not doing three double in the corner. We're just doing two. Again, I'm just going to pull the yarn through this corner space. Like so. I'm going to tighten it in it or not. Go. You can see a bit better way tied this one in, so I'll just take this loose end out of the side. Again, I'm going to pop the hook through the corner space like so yarn over and pull the loop through and do a basically like a chain stitch by pulling that through. I'm going to just move that little n over, and then I'm going to do the other two chain to make my start and chain three there. That's my first stitch. I'm going to do my one more here. I'm going to chain my three. And then I'm going to do my next two double quart. I've done my corner there. Now, again, as with the other style, we're just going to keep working as we would. We're just going to start working on our double a few so that you can see what I'm doing. See I've joined my yarn in there. You can't really see it. I've done my corner and then I've just started to work along there. And I've worked it in exactly the same way. It's just you've got a slightly different start and point view round. So see if you wanted every round to be a different color. You can just add in every round your new an in your corner space, and obviously your round is now going to start where you've joined your yon. Sometimes it actually makes it easier that, you're always starting in a corner. But it's up to yourself, you can either do one color, if you've got a nice variegated ya, or you can do change every two or three rounds, every other round. It's just the possibilities are endless for the grane square rely. That's how you join in your yan on both the different styles to change color. 11. Lesson 10 - How to Complete Your Large Granny Square Class Project: In this video, we're going to be going through our class project and how you can go about starting this. What we're going to do for the class project is we're going to make a large grani square. It can be as large as you want, it could be 100 rounds, it could be ten rounds. I say granny square is very versatile. If you want to just continue to they've got something blanket size, that's fine. That's what I'll be doing, or you can make it ten, 12 rounds, make a place setting or tablecloth, whatever you want, you can basically make it and it's very versatile. What I'm going to do is, I'm just going to go through what I'm going to do and a bit of other information. What you'll find in the class project section of this class, you'll find in the APDF document for you to download. But if you grab that, you'll find in there that there is two patterns. You've got your pattern for a more traditional style square and a solid one, and in there, I explain how you can keep using the same round after three rounds to just continue and make you square as big as you want. We've got both of them there. Also in the document, there is a bit of a cheat sheet. In the first lesson of this class, I spoke about different terms depending on whether you're using US or UK cro terms. I've got a really handy conversion table in there for that. Also, there's a list of different abbreviations that you used in case you're not familiar with them. It's really worth keeping that in your little project bag if you have one, and you can refer back to it when you need it. It is a re handy document to have. What I've got here is I've got a new cake of yarn. This is double knit yarn, and I've got my hook to go with it. I've got a 3.5 millimeter hook here. Now, I think the double it yarn normally calls for a form millimeter hook, but my tension is a little bit loose. I tend to go down a hook size or two sometimes. It doesn't really matter if your at tension is a little bit lose with a gane square, it just means it'll perhaps be a little bit bigger or a little bit smaller as long as your tension is equal throughout. That's fine. Let's say I'm aware that my at tension is loose so I know that I can use a smaller hook if I wanted to be a b a bit smaller. Just use whichever y you want to use. And have a look at the ball band, like you see here. And on here, you can see that this is that for hook four millimeter hook. This if you really nice is Yn Smith's pebbles prints. This is normally made by a company called warehouse. It is a very nice one to weigh it with, but it comes in a lot of different colors. Have a look at your ball band and it will tell you what size hook to use. What I'm going to do is, I'm going to get started on my square and I'll stop after a few rounds and I'll show you what I want to do so far. See and see that I've now got my traditional Granny Square, where I've worked roughly ten rounds. What I've done is, I've basically followed the same pattern that I showed you in the traditional gunny square video for rounds one, two, and three. Then I've just kept repeating round three until I've got a ten. This sizes still quite small for say a blanket or something. So for myself, I want to make a blanket. I'm just going to keep repeating that third round until the square gets to the required size of the blanket that I'd like to make. You could do ten rounds and then tie these off and make several of the size and join them together to make a blanket. It's really up to yourself how big you would like this square to be, whether you combine it with other squares or whether you just continue and make a blanket or something else. But I really hope that you've enjoyed learning how to make these granny squares, and I'd love to see you finished larger granny squares in the class project section of the class. 12. Thanks for watching!: Thanks so much for taking this class. I really hope that you've enjoyed learning how to make granny squares. If you haven't looked at the section already, you will find the class project document in the class project section of the class. This contains the patterns for both the types of granny squares that we've learned how to make in the class, as well as having the cheat sheet that I mentioned earlier on in the class. In that section of the class, you can also upload pictures of your finished large granny squares. We really lovely to see your finished class projects. 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