Granny Square Circle Center

Hello friends! Today I’m sharing a step by step tutorial that will explain my easy method for a Granny Square Circle Center Pattern. So if you have a circle, we will create corners to make it a square.

One of the most popular crochet posts on my blog is this Basic Granny Square Pattern. Today we will work on a variation of that, we will learn to add corners and how to turn a circle into a square crochet.

While circles are beautiful to look at, and very easy to crochet, they have curved edges and no corners or straight edges when joined, you will have gaping holes in the fabric.

If you follow the Granny Square Circle Center pattern below you can easily add corners to your circles to make them squares that are super easy to join into a Granny Square blanket that is colorful and unique.

Before we begin, here are a few helpful guides if you are an absolute beginner that teach you How To Make A Slip Knot, How To Start A Crochet Chain, and How To Double Crochet For Beginners Video

Granny Square Circle Center

Step by step explanation of a Granny Square circle center pattern with photo images.

1. Start with a circle, like this crochet coaster
2. Now, in any ch space of below circle, insert hook and slip stitch and Ch3 (counts as a dc). Into the same ch space, 2dc, ch2, 3dc. This forms the first corner of our square.
3. Next, ch1, 3dc into next ch sp below twice.
4. Now its time to create our second corner. Into the next ch space, 3dc, ch 2, 3dc.

Here is a close up of how each Granny Square Circle corner should look like. This is the most important part to figure out– You have to create 2 clusters of 3 dcs- one cluster for each side of the square with a ch2 between forms the neat corner.

Simply repeat the first four steps around 3 more times till you reach the first corner of the square. You will not need to create a corner (step 4) and instead use a slip stitch to join to the top of the beginning ch 3

And that is how you create your Granny Square Circle Center design.

how to turn a circle into a square crochet

An easy formula to change the circle into a square – Count how many 3dc clusters your circle has on its outermost row and divide by 4. Here my circle has 12 clusters. So that means that we get 12 divided by 4 = 3 clusters. So that means we need to create a “corner” of our square for every 3 clusters in the circle.

Find more small motifs to playing around with in my crochet stitch library. Happy Crocheting!

Supplies I’ve used:

SUPPLIES LINKED: YARN any MEDIUM #4, CROCHET HOOK SIZE H, SCISSORS