How to Crochet a Blanket in the Old Fashioned Square Way
Granny squares are an old-fashioned crochet project that have withstood the test of time. Most frequently worked in four rounds and sewn together to make afghans and blankets, granny squares can grow as large as you want. If you keep working a granny square after four rounds, you can turn it into a blanket all by itself, without the need for seaming. Granny squares are built in three-stitch clusters of double-crochet stitches. Change colors every round or make the whole square out of a single solid or variegated yarn.
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Instructions
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Chain four stitches. Join the first and last stitches with a slip stitch.
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Chain three stitches.
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Work three double-crochet, or DC, stitches into the ring. Chain two stitches. Repeat this step three more times. You will have four 3-stitch clusters and one chain.
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Join the chain to the top of the first chain-three with a slip stitch.
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Slip stitch into each stitch in the first cluster of three DC stitches. Make one slip stitch into the first chain-three space.
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Work three DC stitches. Chain three and work three more DC stitches in the same space.
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Chain one stitch.
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Repeat steps 6 and 7 all the way around the square. When you finish the round, you should have two three-DC clusters in each corner, with a three-stitch chain between each cluster and a one-stitch chain between each set of two clusters. Join the round with a slip stitch.
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Work around the square in three-DC clusters until the blanket is as big as you want it to be. Work one three-DC cluster into each chain-one space. Work two three-DC clusters with a three-stitch chain between them into each corner.
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Join the last round with a slip stitch. Slip stitch across all remaining stitches until you get to the three-stitch chain in the upper-left corner. Work one slip stitch into the three-stitch chain, break your yarn, and pull it through the last loop on the hook to bind off.
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