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How to Crochet the Gingham & Daisies Baby Blanket
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Mar 21, 2025
Learn how to crochet a gingham and daisy baby blanket - Get the PDF https://lullabylodge.etsy.com/listing/629565147 - Get the yarn https://www.lovecrafts.com/en-gb/p/paintbox-yarns-simply-aran?utm_medium=affiliate&a_aid=7f83a24a https://www.lovecrafts.com/en-gb/p/stylecraft-special-aran?utm_medium=affiliate&a_aid=7f83a24a USA - https://www.amazon.com/shop/lullabylodge?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsfshop_6NYZ15JWQW8AH4XC7WZZ UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/lullabylodge?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsfshop_6NYZ15JWQW8AH4XC7WZZ Learn how to crochet a gingham and daisy baby blanket using simple granny squares! This beautiful blanket is made up of alternating plain granny squares and daisy granny squares, creating a charming gingham effect with delicate floral touches. It’s the perfect project for a baby gift, nursery décor, or just because! 🌼 What You’ll Learn: How to crochet plain granny squares for the gingham pattern How to make daisy granny squares for a sweet floral accent Assembling and joining the squares with two different methods How to add a linen stitch border for the perfect finishing touch If you’re looking for how to crochet a gingham and daisy baby blanket, this step-by-step tutorial is easy to follow and beginner-friendly. Don’t forget to like and subscribe for more crochet patterns! Get notified of new pattern releases & exclusive deals and discounts by signing up to our mailing list - https://tinyurl.com/3cae89k8 Feel free to join our Ravelry Group where you can share photos of your Lullaby Lodge makes, get pattern support from our lovely community, take part in pattern testing and crochet alongs and much much more… https://tinyurl.com/3crb9ttt Lovecrafts a great place to buy yarn! - https://www.lovecrafts.com/?utm_medium=affiliate&a_aid=7f83a24a (affiliate link)
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keep watching if you would like to learn how to crochet this beautiful gingham and daisies baby blanket today i'm going
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to be using some paint box yarns simply aaron the other yarn that i recommend
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which was the original um yarn i used when i made this blanket is style craft special aaron they both work really well
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for this now you're going to need to pick a color that you can get two shades
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of the same color so here i've got the this like the purple and the lilac color so you want to go for something that is
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the same color family and two shades of this so one lighter and one darker you're then going to need the yellow for
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the center of the daisies and then for the daisy petals either a cream or a white will work really well for that and
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then i've got another color there's a neutral color that i'm using today originally i just used the same color as
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i did for the daisy petals so you can go totally go ahead and do that but i'm just going for a slightly different look today and i'm going for this um it's
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kind of like a it's called vanilla cream for the neutral color so you're going to make 24 squares in your lighter
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color 16 squares in your neutral color and then you'll have nine of the daisy
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squares which will be in the darker color right so let's start off with with the plain granny squares so we're going
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to be using a 5 mm hook let's start off by putting a slip knot on there and
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we're going to chain four 1 2 3 4 and we're going to join to
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that first stitch to make a ring like so now
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in the written pattern i'm starting all of the rounds with a chain three which counts as a
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double crochet but with this this particular square i have found that a chainless double crochet is a gives you
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a much more seamless look so i'm going to show you how to do that if you prefer you can just use a chain three instead
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so i'm going to elongate the loop on my hook till it's about the height of a
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double crochet and i'm going to put my finger on there and and keep that on there and hold it and then i'm just
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going to use this loop to count as the yarn over and to do that you're going to twist
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your hook around so that you that you then have that yarn over there and then going to go into the center of the ring
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pick up a loop pull it through yarn over pull
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through two and see i'm still holding on to that loop now i can let go so yarn over and
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pull through the last two and there you have a chainless double crochet and when
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you're making these solid granny squares you can see them i think the chain three
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does kind of like stand out a little bit if you don't mind that that's fine but that's just how you can do that out so we're going to put another three double
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crochet into that ring that's
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one two and three so that's four double
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crochet so far and we're then going to chain two this is for our first corner
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space then we're going to put four double crochet into the ring
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it's one
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2 3 and
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four chain two for the next corner and another four double crochet
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into the ring one
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2 oops three and
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four and another chain two for the next corner and then we want another four
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double crochet into that ring one
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2
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3 and four and then we're going to chain two for that last corner space and then
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we're going to join to the top of that first double crochet now can be a bit tricky sometimes to
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find the loops you need to work into with these chainless stitches there we go that's our loops
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there so slip stitch into there so we're going
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to do another chainless double crochet just like we did before
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into that stitch yarn over pull through two yarn
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over pull through two can be a bit tricky if you've not done these before but you'll soon get the hang of it so
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we're going to put a double crochet into the next three
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stitches that's one
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two and three and then we're at our first corner space so in the corner we're going to put two double
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crochet chain two and then two more double
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crochet we're now going to start walking we're now going to start working across the other side now when you've
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got these corner stitches here you can some it sometimes obscures this stitch here so make sure you are working into
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this first stitch which is right here so we're going to put a double crochet into each stitch across to the next
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corner and then in our corner space two double
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crochet chain two and two double crochet
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now you're just going to repeat this around so double crochet into each stitch across in the corner two double
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crochet chain two two double crochet double crochet into each stitch across
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and then you'll be ready for that final corner so again in that final corner i've got the two double crochet here
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chain two two more double
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crochet and then we're going to join with a slip stitch to the top of that chainless double
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crochet like so and we're going to add one more round so we're going to do another
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chainless stitch to start off
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like so and then a double crochet in each stitch across to the
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corner and again in the corner two double crochet
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chain two two double
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crochet
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oops two double
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crochet and again we're going to put double crochet into each stitch across make sure you don't miss that first one
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and in each corner double cro two double crochet chain two two double crochet and i'm going to
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finish off the round again by putting a slip stitch into that top of that chainless double
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crochet like so and then fasten off i'm going to show you how to do the daisy
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squares next so with your yellow yarn going to put a slip knot onto your
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hook and chain six that's one 2 3
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4 five six and we're going to join to that first chain to make a
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ring like so and then we're going to chain one this doesn't count as a stitch and now
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we're going to be working into this ring so i like to work over the tail as i go
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and we're going to put 12 single crochet into the ring that's one
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2 3 4
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5 6
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7 8
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9 10 11 and 12 and then we're going to
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join to that first single crochet with a slip stitch like so okay and there we have
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center of our daisy so we're going to fasten off with this color i like to weave the tail in just through the back loops of a few of the stitches and then
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work over that in the next
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round so we're next going to go with our our petal color so either the cream or
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the white and i'm going to just put my hook into one of the
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stitches and bring this yarn through and chain
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two so we're going to start working our petals now so we're going to put three tripouble crochet into that same stitch
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so yarn over twice hook goes into the stitch pull up a loop yarn over pull
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through two yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two and we're
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going to do two more of
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those like so and then just kind of make sure your petals are puffed out
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on the right side now we're going to just elongate that loop slightly take
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your hook out and you're going to look for that first stitch put your hook through both those
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loops then pick up the loop again pull your yarn tight and draw it through like
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so then we're going to chain
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two and then we're going to do a popcorn in the next stitch so yarn over twice
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into the next stitch pull up a loop yarn over pull through two yarn over pull
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through two yarn over pull through two and again two more of those into that
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same
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stitch then once you've got three you're going to take your hook out go into that first
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stitch pick up that loop again pull that loop through and chain two and you're
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going to go ahead and do this into each stitch around so you should have a total of 12 petals at the end once you get
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round to the end you're going to finish by putting a slip stitch into the top of that first daisy and then you can fasten off
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and again i like to just weave this tail through some of these stitches so it gets worked over in the
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following round okay so we're ready for round three so we're using our darker color in any chain two space just put
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your hook through and then draw the new color through and we're going to chain four that's
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one 2 3 and four this counts as a tripouble crochet we're now going to put
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two more trebles in that same place that's
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one and two chain two for the
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corner and now we're going to put three trebles all in that same
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place one
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two and three so we're going to look for the next space and we're going to put three double crochet in
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there one
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two and three three double crochet in the next space
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1 2 and three and the next space we're
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going to we're going to put our next corner so three trebles
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that's one
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two and three chain two for that corner space and then three more trebles
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one two and three so you can see that's part
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of our square is made so you're going to repeat this around so in the next two spaces it's going to be three double
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crochet in each space then you're going to work a corner which is always going to be three trebles chain two three
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trebles then in the next two spaces three double crochet in each then work another corner and then the last two
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spaces three double crochet in each so and at the end of the round we're just going to finish by joining with a slip
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stitch to the top of that chain four and then fasten off so once you've completed all your squares and they're all ready
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for joining now as long as your squares are pretty even in size you don't need to block the individual squares you can
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just block the finished blanket but if you if you feel like you need to you can block the individual squares first now
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the pattern shows you how to lay out your squares so you start with your neutral color then your light color and
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you alternate one row of those then you start with your light color and then your dark color which is the daisy square and you alternate those you're
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going to be joining all along the sides this way and then we're going to join the squares along this way so i've got
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my squares here to make my small swatch so going to be starting with neutral
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square and then neutral a light square and a neutral and then the next row
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we'll have a light square or a dark square which is the daisy and then another light square and
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then again the neutral the light and the neutral so we're going to start by
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working across this way joining these squares together
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so as this color is in every single row this is the color i'm going to be using
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for the joining so i'm just going to put a slip knot on my hook and i'm just going to put the right sides together
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for the squares that i'm joining like so so we're going to start
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with this square here so i'm going to i've got a slip knot on the hook i'm going to go in with into both the corner
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spaces and i'm going to put a single crochet in there
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and then i'm going to be joining now you can either work into the back loops only
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with your single crochets or you can work through both it's entirely up to you so
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we're looking for our first stitch which is this one here so we're
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going to go through those loops and then look for the first stitch on this side go through those and we're just going to
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put a single crochet in there and then we're going to
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continue the single
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crochet all the way across joining both sides
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together and then when we get to this square i'm going to work through the corner spaces with the single crochet
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and then we're going to move on to our next squares so again through the corners of both the
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squares single crochet look for that first stitch and then the first stitch on the other
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square we're just single crocheting all the way across and i'm just coming up to the edge of the square and again going
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through that corner chain space and then we're going to move on to the next
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squares again through that chain space crochet those both together and then starting in that first
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stitch and i'm going to continue single crocheting them both together all the way across once you get to the end of
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the row you're going to finish with single crochet in that last space and then fasten off and this is what it
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looks like with the join across here so we're now going to join the next row so we'll just put these squares
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together like so pop a slip knot on my
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hook and then go in with a single crochet through both those
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corners and i'm going to join this exactly the same as i did that one so i'll meet you back once i finished so
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there we've got our joins going all the way across both sides we're then just going
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to turn it around and then we're going to start working across these joins here
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in exactly the same way and when you get to the corner
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you're going to put your single crochet into that corner space and if you want to you can put a
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chain one cuz there's a bit more of a bit more bulk here now just to get across that gap and then single crochet
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in that next corner space and then continue single crocheting across so
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that's that seam done as well we've just got this last one to do and you'll go ahead and do all of the rest of your
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your rows on your blanket seaming the sides together so you can crochet them together if that's if that's the way you
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prefer but my personal preference and the way i think that these particular squares look best is by using an
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invisible join and so i would recommend joining them using the mattress stitch so we will join them in the same order
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as we did when we crochet them together we're going to work in rows along one side and then in rows along the other
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side so you're going to start by getting yourself a piece of yarn that is three times the
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length that you're going to be working
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across and then you want to thread that onto your darning needle so you're going to
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go for your first two squares you're going to have them wrong sides
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together in this first square you're going to put your needle through the back loop in the
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corner chain chain stitch and then coming up through the other corner chain
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stitch that's how you will start off can then leave an end then you'll
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sew that in later and then if you want to you can just secure that by going through once more
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like so and then you're going to do exactly the same in the corner of the
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other square so through the outside loops like
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so then you're going to look you're going to go in where you
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came out of last time and then out into the next
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stitch and then on the other square you're going to go in where you came out
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last time and then across to the next stitch always going through those back
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loops and just going to keep repeating
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this you want to go for a few
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stitches and then we'll draw it together every now and
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then once you've worked through a few stitches you just want to hold your squares and then gently pull
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so that closes everything up you don't want to pull too hard you should feel
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once you get to the end and you there's more tension there so then you stop pulling once you feel that
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tension and you as you can see the way that closes the squares up you can't see
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any stitches at all you could even do this with a completely different color and you probably wouldn't notice it
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so i'm going to continue working all the way
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across and every few stitches just draw the two sides together and once you get
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to the corner you're going to just carry on doing exactly the same so you're going
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to go through those back loops into that first corner
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stitch and then from that first corner stitch to that
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second and the same on the other side let's just draw those
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together and then we're going to move on to the next squares and we're going to just do that ex in exactly the same way
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so into the back loop of the first corner stitch and out on the second corner
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stitch and exactly the same in this
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corner so you're going to keep working all the way across until you get to the
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end of that row and then you'll start on the next row so once you get to the end
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you can just go ahead and sew that end in i'm going to show you now how to join this way and show you what we do when we
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get to this corner here so you go ahead and join your square in exactly the same
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way and i'll meet you back once we get to this corner point so once you get to the corner what you're going to see is
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where you've joined these corners here those back loops have been kind of pulled close so you can't really see
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those so the best way that i find to join just the corner is to go around
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this time in the front loops so this was where our yarn's come out from this
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purple square so i'm going to go through the front loop of the corner stitch on
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this square and then the front loop of the other corner stitch and pull that
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through and i'm going to do the same on the next stitch through those front loops i'm just going
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to work around until i get back so i've gone through all of those so front loop
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and the front loop and then finally on this purple one
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here and here and then when you just give that a
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bit of tug it closes up those corners and you get perfect corners
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now i do find that i then want to go through again to get because we're going
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to be joining these two so i just go through these ones
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again and then i'm ready to carry on joining so we're going to go
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through that back loop there up until that next
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stitch and then the same through that back loop and out through the next back
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loop and then you're just going to continue all the way along so i really
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do think this gives you a really nice neat join once you've joined all your squares
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it should look something like this and now we're ready to add on our
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border so i'm going to be using the darker color for the border you're going to have a lot more of this left this
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color left over so it's you know you're going to have enough yarn for the border if you go with that color but you could
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use any of the other colors really it's really up to you so i'm going to put a slip knot on my
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hook um you can start in any corner of your blanket so in this corner
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here we're going to do a single
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crochet and then chain two and another single crochet and
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you're going to do that into all of the corners all of the ones will be the same now we're going to start working
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along the side of this first square so you're going to skip this first stitch this one here chain one and then we're
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going to put single crochet into that next stitch chain
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one skip a stitch single crochet into the following stitch chain one skip a stitch single
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crochet into that next stitch chain one skip a stitch and we're going to keep doing this all the way
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across chain one and in this chain space here from the corner going to put single
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crochet chain one and then in the corner of the next square single crochet chain
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one and then we're going to do the same across each square so we're going to skip this first
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stitch single crochet chain one skip
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one single crochet chain one skip one and we're going to work this all the way
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across and just each time you get to the corners of the granny squares just do the same as you did here and once you
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get to this corner we're going to be skipping that next stitch and in the corner space single crochet chain
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two single crochet and you're just going to repeat across the last three sides
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exactly what you've done along this side and i'll meet you back when we're at the end of the round get back to the
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beginning we're just going to slip stitch into that first single crochet now when i'm doing a line stitch border i like to flip the crochet over and and
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switch the side that i'm working on alternately um this keeps the corners really nice and straight but if you really don't want to do that you don't
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have to but i am going to do that so i'm just going to turn over to the other side going to chain
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one and then i'm going to slip stitch into this chain space here
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like so chain one and single crochet into
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that same space then chain one and now we're looking for the chain one spaces from
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the previous round so we're going to put a single crochet chain one into each chain one
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space from the previous round
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so single crochet chain one single crochet chain one
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oops single crochet chain one and just keep going until you get to the corner so i'm just coming up to the corner here
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and just like we did in the last round we're going to put single crochet chain two and a single crochet and then we'll
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start with a chain one and then we'll look for that next space put a single crochet in there chain one single
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crochet in the next space chain one and we're just going to repeat that all the way around and once you get round to the
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corner going to put a single crochet chain two and a single crochet in that
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last chain space and then join to that first
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stitch like so and then we're going chain one and turn
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so now we're working from the right side again so we'll just slip stitch into that corner
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space chain one and then we'll have a single crochet chain two and a single
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crochet in that corner chain one and then again we're looking for the chain spaces from the
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previous round so single crochet chain one into each
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space all the way around and in each corner single crochet chain two single
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crochet so we're just going to end again with a slip stitch into that first single crochet and then you can fasten
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off and weave in your ends now if you like you can make this border wider you can add you can keep adding as many
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rounds as you want to just make sure you end on a right side round
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now your blanket will benefit greatly from blocking if you're using acrylic yarn steam works really well on acrylic
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or you can wet block it and if you enjoyed this tutorial then be sure to check out my blanket playlist right here
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