How To Make A Crochet Granny Square Using The Magic Ring Technique (Part Two)

So, now you will have hopefully mastered the Magic Ring.  The last step you should have carried out is a slip stitch through the top of the third stitch at the end of the round/square.  This is Part Two of the Crochet Granny Square Tutorial.   

Hook is 4.5mm and yarn is from Ice Yarns in Turkey and it is Merino Light 30 in an Indigo Blue colourway.   Pattern is written out in UK Terms with the US Terms in brackets.  

Chain four. This forms 1 treble stitch (US 1 x double crochet stitch) and 1 chain stitch and will come into play at the end of the second round.

Into the space on the first corner you need to make 3 treble crochet stitches (US 3 x double crochet stitches)

Chain three.

Next make 3 treble crochet stitches into the same chain space as the first 3 treble crochet stitches (US 3 x double crochet stitches).

Chain one.  This chain forms a runway gap for the next round. 

Into the next chain space on the next corner make 3 treble crochet stitches (US 3 x double crochet stitches).

Chain 3.

Make 3 treble crochet stitches into the same chain space as the first 3 treble crochet stitches (US 3 x double crochet stitches).

Then chain one and make 3 treble crochet stitches (3 x double crochet stitches) into the next chain space.

Chain 3.

Make 2 treble crochet stitches (US 2 x double crochet stitches)

Then make a slip stitch into top of the third stitch of the four chain that you made at the beginning of this round.  

Showing slip stitch at end of second round.

Push hook from front to back of work through chain space directly underneath slip stitch.

Grab the yarn on hook at the back of work and pull it back through you will have two loops on your hook.

Place your yarn over hook and pull back through both loops on hook.  

This is what your crochet granny square will look like when you have finished round two.  

To be continued........

How To Make A Crochet Granny Square Using The Magic Ring Technique (Part One)

Today in Part One, I'm hopefully going to be showing you how to create a solid crochet Granny Square using the Magic Ring Technique.  

First you will need a ball of yarn and a crochet hook, the one that I am using is a 4.5mm hook from Clover.   The yarn that I am using is double knit - Ice Yarns Merino Light 30 in Indigo Blue. Instructions are written in UK terms with US terms in brackets. 

1. Take your yarn and hold it between your thumb and the outside of the middle knuckle joint on your index finger, wrap it over once and then hold it with your middle and ring fingers to keep it taut whilst you carry out the next step.  

 2. Pick up your crochet hook and take it under the first yarn on the inside of your index finger and then bring it up and over the yarn that is held by your middle finger and your ring finger. 

 3.  As you pull the hook back down grab the yarn and take it back under the first yarn this will then form a loop (it looks funny into the photo because I had to find a way to hold the hook and take the photo at the same time).  Believe it or not you have now formed a Magic Ring. 

 4.  This is what the Magic Ring should look like when you have removed it from your Index Finger. 

 5.  Before the next step you need to chain two (2) loops this counts as one UK treble (or one double crochet in US terms) and then take the yarn over the hook like this. 

6.  Then take the hook down through the Magic Ring and grab the yarn with your hook on the other side and then pull it back up through the Magic Ring -  you will now have three loops on your hook.  

7.  Take the yarn back over the top of the hook and pull it back through two of the loops already on the hook.  

8.  Then take the yarn back over the top of the hook and pull it back through the two remaining loops.   

9.  It should look like the photo below.

10.  Make another treble crochet (US double crochet) so that it looks like this. So that's yarn over the hook down through the Magic Ring, grabbing the yarn on the other side with your hook and pulling it back through the Magic Ring you will then have three loops on your hook then take the yarn over the top of the hook and pull it back through two loops and then wrap the yarn over the top of the hook again and pull it back through the remaining two loops on your hook. 

11. Chain three. 

12.  Make another cluster of three treble stitches (US 3 x double crochet). 

13.  Chain three.  

14. Make three more treble crochet (US 3 x double crochet).  

15. Chain three.

16.  Make three more treble crochet stitches (US 3 x double crochet).  So you have four clustered sets of three treble crochet stitches (US 3 x double crochet stitches) each with a space in between each set.  

17.  Chain three.  

18.  Now before you close the stitches on the open end, just grab the tail end of the Magic Ring and pull it tight.

19.  Pull the little yarn tail so the hole in the centre closes tightly.
 

20.  Then slip stitch into the top of the third stitch of the first three stitches which you created when you made the Magic Ring.  And the beginnings of your Granny Square should look like the bottom photo. 

 

I hope this tutorial has helped you with your crochet and explained how to start a Solid Colour Crochet Granny Square.  To be continued.....

First Post

Hello,

This is all 'new' to me.  I've dabbled with blogging in the past, many moons ago when Yahoo 360 was first born, but when that was dissolved then my interest in blogging dissolved too.  I have thought many times about doing another one and as I said I have dabbled. 

I am hoping that this might be a place where I can sit and tell you tales of what I have been up to on my journeys around the world and what I get up to in "My Woolly Bubble".  I learnt to knit when I was 17 years old and that was many, many moons before my involvement with Yahoo 360, in the last year I have taught myself to crochet and have many "WIPs" in progress. 

This is one of the first things that I learnt to crochet, a never-ending granny square, in Loweth Olympic Patchwork Yarn in a Turquoise Colourway.  I enjoyed working on this snuggle wrap very much, and have made lots more since, but I also make other things as well as blankets too, as I am sure you will see in the episodes to follow.

Gilly