Free Granny Square Pattern

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Looking for an easy free granny square pattern? The Harmony Square is a free crochet granny square pattern featuring a circle and a hexagon. Read on to find out all about the square and how to make yours, and access the free pattern below.

Harmony Square – inspiration

Who doesn’t love a granny square? They come in all sizes, are a great quick make, an easy win when your a beginner crocheter and actually we have all probably made one at one time or another. Even if, like me, we generally don’t make them anymore.

When I heard about the Friendship Squares CAL by Sunflower Cottage Crochet, I immediately wanted to get involved. I liked the idea of the challenge of designing my own granny square pattern. It’s such an iconic thing, and there are so many that creating something new is the kind of thing that get’s me going.

The Harmony Square, sort of fell off my hook without a real plan. I had the idea to see if I could do a type of shape in a shape thing. By the time I sat down to design my squares, I knew the general themes we were hoping to go with and I wanted to design something that represented what to me we were as well as what we were collectively creating.

IF it helps – in my head, and how I explained it to my kids was – you know you get that bird in a bird in a bird thing at Christmas, I wanna do that with a granny square. It also kind of reminds me of the early learning toy where you fit shapes through the slots of what was a hexagon or octagonal “ball” when I had one.

Granny Square pattern yarn love and materials

For this square I have used Deramores Studio Aran. This is a very soft, no pill, 100% acrylic yarn. Available solely from Deramores, and part of their wider studio range, this yarn is super soft and has a sheen to it that is a little different to most acrylic yarns. It is also wound slightly differently to more widely available acrylics – more like a roving yarn.

Skill Level: Beginner

Terms: US Terms

Materials used:

Deramores Studio Aran

Colour A – Emerald 26g 16m/15yds

Colour B – Juniper 19g 12m/11yds

Hook: 5mm

Other items:

Scissors, darning needle, stitch marker

Gauge: 17dc x 6 rows

Size: 9ins x 9ins

Stitches used:

Chain – ch
Single Crochet – sc
Half Double Crochet – hdc
Double Crochet – dc
Slip Stitch – sl-st
Front Post Double Crochet – fpdc
Back Post Double Crochet – bpdc
Magic Ring – mr
Beginning – beg

Granny Square Pattern – Free pattern and video tutorial

Thank you to Sarah from Sunflower Cottage Crochet for making the tutorial video to support this pattern for the CAL. I don’t like video, but I want this to be a beginner pattern and accessible to all, hopefully this video will help you to recreate your Harmony Square if you get stuck with the written pattern.

Notes:

This pattern is made in the round without turning
Ch3 at the start of the round counts as a dc
Ch2 at the start of a round does NOT count as a hdc
Ch1 at the start of a round does NOT count as a sc
Stitch counts are included at the end of each round/row in brackets
Stitch counts on square rows are for a single side and do not include corners
From round 5 – corners are not included in the stitch count
From round 5 – the first stitch of the round is also the last stitch of the last corner and you will complete it when you finish the round

Start:

Ch3 (counts as a dc here and throughout), 11dc into the ring. Join to the top of the beginning ch3 with a sl-st. (12)

Round 1:

Ch3, dc into the same st, 2dc in each st around. Join to the top of the beg ch3 with a sl-st. (24)

Round 2:

Ch3, 2dc into the same st, dc in the next 3 sts, [3dc in the next st, dc in the next 3 sts], repeat round. Join to the top of the beg ch3 with a sl-st. (36)

Round 3:

Using Colour B

Ch3, 2dc in the same st, dc in the next 5 sts, [3dc in the next st, dc in the next 5 sts], repeat round. Join to the top of the beg ch3 with a sl-st. (48)

Round 4:

Ch3, [3dc in the next st, dc in the next 7 sts], repeat until 6 sts remind, dc in the next 6. Join to the top of the beg ch3 with a sl-st. (60)

Round 5:

Using Colour A

Join with a sl-st in any st.

Ch3 – (this is the beginning of the corner which you will finish at the end of the round), dc in the next 2, hdc in the next 2 sts, sc in the next 6, hdc in the next 2, dc in the next 2, [(dc, ch1, dc in the next), dc in the next 2, hdc in the next 2, sc in the next 6, hdc in the next 2, dc in the next 2] around, dc in the same st as beginning ch3, ch1, join to the top of the beg ch3 with a sl-st.

(4dc, 4hdc, 6sc per side, not including corners )

Round 6:

Ch3 –(this is the beginning of the corner which you will finish at the end of the round), hdc in the next 3, sc in the next 8, hdc in the next 3, dc, (dc, ch1, dc in the ch1 sp), [dc, hdc in the next 3, sc in the next 8, hdc in the next 3, dc, (dc, ch1, dc in the ch1 sp)], repeat 3 times, join to the top of the beg ch3 with a sl-st. (2dc, 6hdc, 8sc per side, not including corners)

Round 7:

Ch3 –(this is the beginning of the corner which you will finish at the end of the round), [dc in each st to the ch1 sp, (2dc, ch1, 2dc in the ch1 sp)], repeat to the last ch1 sp, dc in the next st, ch1, join to the top of the beg ch3 with a sl-st. (18dc per side)

Round 8:

Using Colour B

Join in any corner with sl-st. Ch3 – (this is the beginning of the corner which you will finish at the end of the round), dc in the ch1 sp, bpdc in each st, [(2dc, ch1, 2dc in the ch1 sp), bpdc in each st], repeat 3 times, 2dc in the ch1 sp, ch1, join to the top of the beg ch3 with a sl-st. (22 bpdc per side)

Round 9:

Ch2 (does not count as a st), hdc in the same st, [hdc in every st across, (2dc, ch1, 2dc in the ch1 sp)], repeat 4 times. Join to the top of the beg hdc with a sl-st. (26 hdc per side)

Round 10:

Using Colour A

Join in any corner with a sl-st. Ch3, dc in the ch1 sp, bpdc in every st across, [3dc in ch1 sp, bpdc in every st across], repeat 3 times, dc in ch1 sp, join to the top of the beg ch3 with a sl-st. (30 bpdc per side)

Round 11:

Ch1 (does not count as a st), sc in the same st, hdc in the next 30 sts, [3sc in the next st, hdc in the next 30], repeat 3 times, 2sc in the same st as the beg sc, join to the top of the beg sc with a sl-st. Tie of and secure all ends.

Harmony Square pdf download

Get your copy of the Harmony Square for FREE as part of the Friendship Blanket Cal. Head over to the main blog post here to find out more about the event, details on all the patterns released and of course your discount code