Bright and Playful: Happy Petal Crochet Square Tutorial!

0:00 hey gang Jane back today with another versatile crochet granny square tutorial this sweet little square has a pretty little flower in the middle so I call her happy pedal she's a good Square to play around with a color placement for different styles and has even more versatility in the sizes you can make with it this tutorial will cover all eight rounds of this square with a finished measurement of 6 and 1/2 in x 6 and 1/2 in however you can work just the first four rounds and get a smaller square that measures 4 in or even even work it to the six rounds for a 5 and 1/2 in square each Square can be used to create different looks and different projects the stitches in the Square are pretty straightforward the only different one here is the double crochet cluster that's forming the flower petals and that's worked with only two double

0:45 crochet and since you've been asking me I will also be showing how I work my ends in as I go I will have a pattern in my shop for this final happy petal blanket which will include the square pattern charts diagrams and the joint as you go written instru C I will link to that pattern in the description below you can find more information including urine suggestions project picks and the free pattern for the happy petal Square itself over on my block I'm using a worsted weight yarn today to make this Square parchment is my off-white and that's Bernat premium caramel which is also Bernat premium green Lagoon which is impeccable by Loops and threads and oatmeal which is Red Heart super Super Saver those are

1:31 the four colors I'll be using in this particular Square you'll also need a 5 mm crochet hook people often ask me what this crochet hook is it's Susan Bates silver Loom ergonomic so it has a nice foam handle and it's nice and long so really comfortable and they last a long time you'll also need a pair of scissors and a daring needle to do the ends I am going to show you how I work in my ends as I go and I use the darney needle along the way so gather your supplies and your favorite colors and join me in making the happy petal Square taking our caramel yarn we're going to make a magic ring to start with so lay the yaron across your palm take it around your

2:16 first two fingers Crossing it over and holding it with your thumb pivoting your hand and taking it over the three fingers so you have two strands here you're going to go under the first one and over the second one pulling it through and twisting it onto the hook then you're going to reach over to the Strand going over your third finger you're going to insert your hook under pulling a loop through and that locks your ring in place and now you can pull your fingers out the first round we're going to do is going to be double crochets and we're going to work into this magic ring so it has to be nice and big and floppy I already have have a chain one here so I need to work two more to get

3:02 my chain three beginning and that counts as our first double crochet stitch we need 11 more double crochet into this ring for a total of 12 double crochet for our first round double crochets again are yarn over your hook insert into the big floppy ring pick up the yarn and pull it through three loops on the hook yarn over pull through the first first two yarn over pull through the second two that's your double crochet and you now have two in your magic ring your magic ring needs to be this nice big floppy so that you can get everything into it and then you can start to cinch it up so let's work a few more another double crochet into your

3:49 magic ring and that will give us three so just continue to work those and you're kind of hanging onto this ring so that it doesn't get out of control I often hold my finger and thumb at the base of the Stitch and then I work another one making room for the hook to go in and then I create my Stitch and I can shift them down so they're close together and go back in shift my thumb and finger again to the base of the stitches and then work another one and I continue to work my way around to the 12 double

4:36 crochet and often I lose count which I've done now so let's count them I often just count the posts you could also count these V stitches here but let's count our post because I want to include the first chain three 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 9 so we have three more we want to do that's one that's two and that's three so let's count one more time just to make sure we have 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 and 12 now I want to cinch up this ring so that

5:21 they're all nice and tight in a circle so take your the hand that has the hook in it take that hand and put your thumb and your finger at the base of the s Stitch the last Stitch you made take the cut end now and pull them away from each other and you'll see how it cinches up the circle you may have to readjust a little bit as you do it cuz see I've almost got it tight in there and it pull a little tighter don't not so tight that you're going to break this yarn just nice and firm so now I've cinched up my magic ring and I want to join my round because I'm going to be finished with this color I like to do an invisible joint you could do a slip stitch in the third chain of that beginning chain three I'll show you how to do this just by going

6:07 right into the center of that chain and then pull up a loop and pull it through the one on the hook that would be considered a slip stitch join but I like to do invisible joins so back here last Stitch done magic ring cinched in I will cut my yarn again I usually cut about 4 in along pull the yarn through this is where your daring needle comes in take the cut yarn and put it on your darning needle and we're going to do an invisible join here I'm going to take the needle and I'm going to go under the first double crochet actual double

6:54 crochet stitch so go past the chain three and go to the first actual double crochet right here and I want to go under the two Loops at the top that little V stitch go under those pull it through just gently and now you're going to bring the darney needle back to where you came out of so just put it in here and I usually go down at least one extra loop at the back pull that through and now you have this big floppy V looks like the other ones but it's too large so this is where we just snug it in kind of play with it so that it looks just like the other

7:43 stitches there you have your invisible join so now I did tell you that I'm going to show you how to work the ends in as we go so at this point we have this end that we just did the invisible join and the one from the center I like to work go in at the end of the first round what I do with this one and this is pretty common at the end of most my rounds I just darn them in the back Loop only of these stitches so I've done the invisible joint here and to lock it in place what I do is I come back up into the center of that invisible stitch I just made so see where we went down here down two stitches I'm going to come back up behind just in these back loops right

8:29 here into the center of this Stitch and pull it up oh my hand's getting caught there and then I go back down again that Loops it once and it kind of creates a nice little knot and I'll tell you that holds secure because when I make my squares I do a lot of trial and error so if I don't like my colors or I don't like the placement I will rip them out and if I didn't think I was going to rip them out and I did this extra lock it's really hard to rip it out it's even hard to find it so know that this is a very secure way to end this round now to finish off the rest of this I will go under the back Loop only and then under the back Loop only of the next one and I'm going to keep doing

9:15 that I don't have a lot of stitches on this round but I don't need to go far because that really locked it in place you can go you can put as many of those on as you want and then pull it through gently you don't want to change the tension of anything and then keep on going and I'll go all the way around this entire circle cuz you'll be working over this end on the next round so you see it may pull it in a little bit just stretch it back out and where did I've probably done 2/3 to 3/4 of the circle so now I'm going to cut it sometimes I don't cut cut them because as I work the next round they

10:01 get worked into it as well so this one right at the center was the magic ring end we put that on our darning needle and what I do there is I go under keep on going so see how it comes out of this one I keep going underneath these stitches and if you flip it over you can't see the the needle so I'm right into the center and I will continue so that I get a good nice little secure pull on that I'll give it a little more pulling as I go so that I know my Center is nice and solid I'll go all the way around at least once sometimes I'll just keep going in a circle and cut it if you want to lock it in place if you're if you're not sure if it'll

10:47 stay you can go over top of the one you just came out of don't go back under it or it'll pull it out uh go over top of it and then reverse Direction the only reason I don't like doing that sometimes is because it does put a little Gap there but it does not show on the front it depends on the yarn that you're working on I find this worsted weight is a good weight it doesn't really fall out the thinner the yarn the more likely it will fall out and if you have a nice Twisted yarn with a nice Sheen that's when I start to consider nodding my yarn because those ones will slip right out of everything but this yarn doesn't really slip that much and it does tend to kind of work its way in and

11:34 stay put and once I've done that One Direction and then the other direction I will cut the end off so I just go in and cut it nice not too close it'll work its way in and you don't want to cut your Fabric and that puts round one finished with the ends worked in so let's take a look at one that we've already done so we did did our Center this one's the colors will be reversed the center I've already done in the caramel and in this one I did the center in the green Lagoon which we're going to use up here but I'm putting the whites in the same place so the next round is going to be our flower that's going to create this nice happy petal so we want to work

12:21 a double crochet cluster and it starts with a chain two so you're going to insert your hook into any of these spaces I'm going to show you both how to do it without working your yarn in and with working your yarn in two separate ways so that it doesn't get confusing for you first we're going to do it without working your yarn in we're going to insert the hook into any one of these stitches and we're going to pull up a loop then we're going to chain two now you want to do a double crochet into the same Stitch that we just did the chain stitch in so wrap your yarn around your hook insert into that same Stitch pull up a loop you're going to pull through two loops and then yarn

13:06 over again and pull through the last two Loops this is your beginning double crochet cluster without working your yarn in now let's try it working our yarn in so this method we're going to work our yarn in as we go insert your hook in any one of these stitches pull up a loop and chain one now we're going to take our cut end and throwing it up up see it's it's h white here so a little hard to see on the background and over top of your working yarn so they're crossing over so and it's going to the back and you're going to chain your second chain and then you're going to bring the yaron back to the front over top of your working yaron so it's like you're weaving it into the

13:53 chain but we only want to do a chain two to start with uh on the beginning because we're trying trying to create that that petal shape so the next thing we're going to do is a double crochet into the same Stitch and the yarn is coming from the top where the hook is now so I hold it in place with my finger at the back and we normally just wrap the yarn around the hook you're going to go under the cut yarn and under the working yarn so they're both over the hook then you're going to come back to the front and go under and into the Stitch and you're also going to have the cut yarn over top of the hook so it gets worked in back there as well then you're going to yarn around and pull up a loop now you've got a big cluster of yarn on there right now

14:40 because that cut end is on there as well bear with it it will work next you're going to yarn over and pull through the first what would be considered the first two Loops so that Loop and this double stranded Loop and then and then you're going to bring your cut yarn back up to the top where the hook is over top of your working yarn and then yarn over and pull through the last two so this cut yarn is worked really well into that first cluster like it's in there and that becomes a lot easier to do once you've done it a couple times quite a few times actually but it becomes a lot more

15:27 automatic and that was a tricky one because we don't normally work clusters so I was showing you how to work it into the cluster so the yarn is now up by the needle so at this point we are ready to keep on working and you're going to do this cluster but this is a beginning cluster you're going to work a regular cluster in each of these stitches so let's go ahead and do the next phase of this Stitch so we're going to do a chain two and I'm going to show you how we work this yarn in you bring this yarn now back to the front and you chain one it's always over top of the working yarn back and forth and then for the second chain take it back over top of the working yarn and chain two if you're not working your yarn in don't just disregard the the cut end parts and just

16:13 chain two now we're going to work a normal cluster into this next Stitch I'm going to show you how I do it with the cut end so bringing your yarn back over top of of the working yarn to the front we're going to do another double crochet with this yarn again so go under both strands and then go into the next Stitch and I also go under the cut end as well so it's well worked in there and pull up a loop now to do a normal cluster we're only going to go for through these first two loops on the double crochet so yarn around your hook pull it through the

16:59 first two Loops at this point I would bring the cut end back to the top and I would get ready for the next uh double crochet you have two Loops left on the hook those stay there and we do another double crochet so you only worked half of this double crochet so yarn over insert into the same Stitch and I'm leaving my cut in back up here pull up a loop you now have four loops on the hook yarn over pull through the first two three Loops left and yarn over and pull through all three that's your regular two double

17:46 crochet cluster from here we're going to go ahead and do chain two double crochet cluster in each Stitch all the way around so I will work some more of this nice white yarn on this nice nice white background and I'll show you I don't really need to work any more of this yarn in cuz I've got it worked all through here across here back down and back up it's worked in there pretty good so at this point I could just cut that if you're feeling you want to do a little bit more you could work it into the next chain too so you would bring it to the front not much there left to work with chain one and then toss it to the back over top of your working yarn

18:32 and chain the second chain now let's work another double crochet cluster and the cut yarn is finished I'm just going to leave that little end at the back there that's how I work that in so let's continue with the actual pattern now we're going to do yarn over the hook insert into the next Stitch pull up a loop two loops on the hook yarn over and pull through two Loops leave the remaining two Loops there yarn over and insert again into that same Stitch pull up a loop now you have four loops on the hook yarn over pull through the first two you have three left you're going to put yarn over and pull through all three of those stitches as I'm doing this I'm pulling

19:18 down on the fabric and up on the hook chain two and we'll do it into the next Stitch I get a lot of questions as to how to work that yarn in and that is how I do it it can get confusing when you're trying to learn the pattern as well but hopefully that helped and now we're going to continue with the pattern so you can get a good feel for the how this pattern actually works on this round next Stitch and we've done our chain two we're going to do a double crochet cluster and you're going to wrap the yarn around the hook and insert into the next Stitch yarn over and pull up a loop three loops on the hook yarn over and pull through the first two leave these two on the hook yarn over and insert into the Stitch

20:04 again pull up a loop now we have four loops on the hook pulling down on the fabric and up on the hook yarn over and pull through the first two Loops three left yarn over and pull through all three of those Loops that's your cluster so I'm going to go ahead and just work through some more so that you can see what I'm doing here [Music]

21:11 at this point I have 1 2 3 4 5 six so I'm halfway there I want 12 total and I'm just going to go ahead and do the other six you can do it on your own or you can watch it along with me this is one of the tricky rounds with these cluster stitches so I want to make sure that you get the idea of what we're doing here and that you can really see it in action [Music]

22:59 so I have one more left to do and right in here is our last Stitch ending with a chain two and now I'm going to slip stitch in the top of the beginning double crochet cluster so this little V stitch sitting right at the top here I'm going to go under that pull up the yarn and and pull it through the loop on the hook that's my slip stitch and that completes the flower portion and round two so what I want to do now is cut my yarn again about 4 in along and I'm going to take my darning

23:44 needle pull it through don't need that anymore and we worked our first one in and it's kind of sticking up there kind of messy as you can see it there I'm going to trim that down a little so it's out of my away so we have everything worked in except this last piece that we just worked with I'm going to put my yarn back on my darning needle so I'm going to take this slip stitched yarn and go down into the next Stitch pull it down and again if I want to lock it in place I do the same thing as when I did the invisible join I bring it back up one stitch behind right through the center pull it up

24:30 and then I can start to Loop it that gives it a little bit of a lock down there now I'm going to go into the back Loops only from the back to the front see how I can just wiggle them on there oops there and there I go as many as I can get and then I pull it through gently and then I'll do that again and I take it around at this point probably half of the circle so that it's well in there so I'll pull that I think we started there and I looped it there so I feel it's pretty secure so now I will cut it close to the fabric but not super close and now you have

25:18 round number two done coming back to the square that's already finished we've now done the flower and we're working into this squared out part so you can see here we finished our flower and now we're going to use this color here which is green Lagoon to create our first initial Square so holding my yon at the back we're going to work in the chain spaces these chain two spaces that's where we're going to be working not into the actual cluster stitches so what we want to do is we want to work a single crochet into any one of these chain spaces all the way around so I work a standing single crochet by holding my yarn at the back with my finger and then

26:03 I wrap the yarn around the hook still holding it there inserting it into the chain two space and under the cut piece of yarn so I'm working it in and pull up a loop I have the two loops on the hook the cut piece of yarn is worked in at the back and then wrap the yarn around and pull it through this gives me a nice clean single crochet and my cut end is already worked in back here and I will continue to work it as I go so that's our first single crochet now I want to chain one and I do that working my end in toss the end over the working yarn to the top and over and chain one bring your cut yarn back to the front over top

26:51 of the working yarn now work a single crochet into that same chain space and I also go under the cut yarn so it's also worked in at the back pull up a loop and complete my single crochet so I have a single crochet chain one single crochet in this first chain space now we're going to chain one so I take my cut end and throw it back over top of my working yon again and chain one bring the cut end back over top of the working yarn and we're going to work into the next chain space in this chain space we're going to do single crochet chain one single crochet so insert your hook and go under the cut yarn so that you're working it in and work a single

27:37 crochet then we want to do a chain one so cut yarn goes over top of your working yarn chain one and cut yarn comes back over top so it goes over the top and then back over the top each time you work it and a single crochet so we've now worked our cut yarn in and up and around each of these stitches and I'm going to do it for a little bit further but the pattern is right here chain one then single crochet chain one single crochet in the space then chain one and then single crochet chain one single crochet that is the Simplicity of this round I'm going to work it around so you

28:23 can watch me work it and I'm also going to work the yarn in as I go we're now at a chain one so I will toss my cut end over top of the working yarn chain one bring it back over top of the working yarn single crochet tossing that yarn over chain one and bringing it back always over top of the working yarn single crochet chain one now I won't talk about the cut yarn I'll just talk about the pattern and you can watch me work the cut yarn single crochet chain one single crochet in the same

29:09 space chain one single crochet chain one single crochet in the same space and chain one now the cut end is pretty short here so I'm just going to leave it be I've worked a good portion around and it's up and down in each of these so it's well worked in there let's continue with the pattern I ended with a chain one in the next chain space single crochet chain one single crochet chain one next chain space single crochet chain one single

29:55 crochet chain one let's keep going and I'll just stay quiet and you can watch me [Music] last space single crochet chain one single crochet in that same space

30:42 and a chain one now I've worked my way all the way around and I want to slip stitch in this first single crochet so you go under those first two loops and because it's a standing single crochet it can be a little trickier to get in there especially if you pulled it tight pull up the loop and pull it through the one on the hook that's our slip stitch but we're not cutting our yarn because we're going to continue to do the squaring off on the next round so we finished off with a slip stitch in our first single crochet of the round and we're ready for round four I want to get to the first chain space which is right here so I'm going to slip stitch into that chain space so I'm literally just pulling the

31:29 yarn through and through the loop on the hook so I can slip over to that chain space this is where I'm going to start now I don't have any ends to work in as I go so that's kind of nice I'm going to chain one and work a single crochet into that first chain space then chain one single crochet in the next chain space and chain one and single crochet in this next chain space and chain one next Stitch will be a half double crochet so yarn around the hook insert into the next chain space pull up a loop three loops on the hook yarn over and pull through all three that's your half

32:14 double crochet chain one now we've reached our first corner of the square in this next chain space we're going to work our corner and the corner is going to be a half double crochet chain chain one double crochet chain one half double crochet all of that is going to go into this corner so let's work it half double crochet into the chain space chain one double crochet into that same chain space chain one and a half double crochet into this same chain space

32:59 there's our Corner chain one and that's the corner of our first Edge continuing to work across we're going to do a half double crochet in the next chain space and chain one now we're back to where we started we're going to do single crochet chain one single crochet chain one and single crochet chain one so three three times so we're going to do single crochet into the next chain space chain one single crochet in the next chain space chain one and single crochet into the next chain space chain

33:45 one so now we're working across the top edge of our Square half double crochet in the next chain space chain one and we're back to our next corner again it's going to be like this one with the three stitches in the chain spaces all into the same space let's go ahead and work that half double crochet chain one double crochet chain one half double crochet chain one and there we have our next corner and we're working across the next Edge so let's keep on working this whole round half double croch crochet in the next chain space chain

34:31 one single crochet in the next chain space chain one single crochet chain one always into the next chain space single crochet chain one half double crochet and chain one each of those are in their own chain spaces and we're back to the next corner it's a very small square so it works up pretty quick into this next chain space half double crochet chain one double crochet chain one half double crochet chain one so I have one more Edge to work across and one more Corner before we come back to where we started let's keep going half

35:18 double crochet in the next chain space chain one and then each of these will be worked into chain spaces single crochet chain one single crochet chain one and single crochet chain one half double crochet chain one and we're going to work our last Corner into this chain space which is the next one half double crochet chain one double crochet chain one half double crochet chain one now I have one more chain space before I get back to where I

36:03 started that's going to be a half double crochet chain one and we're ready to join that completes round four so we want to do a slip stitch in that first single crochet and now I can cut my yarn about 4 in and that completes the square so now we're going to work this yarn in we're going to go down into the next stitch up into the Stitch one back like one behind it and that Loops it around and kind of knots it in there for us and then I go under the back Loops

36:50 only you might think you know it's not only the back Loops only it's not going to secure it in there but as you work the the next round it actually works them into that round as well so it's a lot more secure than you might think we probably for the most part over secure the yarn because there's many times I try to pull out my squares and I can't get them pulled out they won't come out so there we go I worked it from here all the way to here and now I'm going to clip it I'm also going to clip this one here from the two rounds before that there and you can see all my ends are worked in and we're still going so this Square itself can be a really nice

37:36 Square to work now at this point the square measures 4 in so my original inspiration for the square was to make a pillow cover like this or even an entire blanket like this so just to give you an idea at this point you can stop here with the square and make them into a cute and colorful kind of a retro themed pillow I joined these using a single crochet from the wrong side to give that white accent at the seams that's just one idea you can do but let's keep going on making the square a little bigger so again looking at a square that I've already done we've done the center part here this one is 4 in by 4 in so a small square great for scrap busting or we can make it bigger by adding a few more

38:23 rounds so I've got four more rounds here two of each color so let's go ahead and take a look at these rounds we're going back to our parchment color and we're going to join our yarn in any one of these corners but since I have a double crochet in the corner I want to go to the chain space just to the left of it doesn't matter which corner you choose but you want the chain space just to the left of the double crochet that's where we're going to join I'm going to join with a standing single crochet so holding my yarn at the back right where I'm going to join wrap the yarn around the hook insert into that space and under the cut yarn so you're working it in pull up a loop and then pull through

39:09 both Loops that completes your single crochet and it's a nice clean beginning single crochet with the yarn at the back worked in this round is just going to be single crochets and chain ones until we get to the corners at which point we'll be doing chain threes around the corners so fairly easy round and I'm going to work my yarn in as I go again so taking my cut yarn I throw it over top of the yarn seems to be I'm always working in white when I do this over top of the working yarn so it crosses over and to the back and we chain one now we bring the cut yarn back to the front over top of the yarn Crossing to the front and we work a single crochet in

39:57 the next chain space working under the cut yarn as well so it works it's in that keeps it hidden from these chain spaces it's not stringing along the back along the bottom you're actually going up across the chain and down with this cut yarn that's what this working it in does so let's try that again you're going to chain chain one so what I want to do first is take my cut yarn across my my working yarn chain one and then take my cut yarn and bring it back to the front and we're going to work a single crochet in the next Stitch or in the next chain space actually and

40:44 you're going to work over top of this cut yarn so if you're not working your yarn in the pattern is simply single crochet into the chain spaces and chain one single crochet the next chain space chain one we're going to work that way all the way to the corner I'm going to continue to work my cut yarn in so you can watch me do that it becomes automatic once you get used to the way that it feels and I get to a point where it really is much faster for me to work it in than to darn them in later everything's flying around here I'm watching my big knot of yarn creep into the camera

41:32 and I work this cut yarn until I get down to a nubby or at least across this first section and we're almost to the corner here so I've reached the corner and I'm going to work a single crochet into this right to the right of the double crochet and then I'm just going to let this this cut end go not going to bother with it anymore it's worked all the way up and down this entire row this entire Edge so you can see here I've worked 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and eight single crochets with chain ones in between them now that we've reached the corner

42:19 I'm going to chain three and we're going to skip over top of that double crochet cuz we're not working into any of the Stitch themselves and we're going to work a single crochet into the next chain space so the corner for this round you can see my nubby's kind of sticking around there is just simply a chain three over top of this double crochet now we're going to do the same thing we just did across the next Edge I'm going to go ahead and do this and you can watch me do it so that you can see what I'm working with [Music]

43:22 so we've worked across the next Edge I've come to the next corner so here I will be doing a chain three and then single crochet in the next chain space and then we're working across our next Edge this is a pretty simple row just single crochets and chain stitches in fact these last four rows are fairly simple I've come to the next corner and I'm going to do a chain three around this next corner and we're on our last edge here going to work across to this corner

44:20 [Music] so you can see here I'm going to work into this chain space single crochet chain three and we're back to where we started so I want to do a slip stitch in this first single crochet and that's the end of Round 1 2 3 4 5 that's the end of round round five now moving on to round six we want to slip stitch in this first chain space

45:06 so just insert your hook into the chain space pull the yarn through and pull it through the loop on the hook so it just moves you over to that chain space which is where we want to start the next round will be half double crochet chain ones so to begin with we want a chain three so one 2 three that counts as our first half double crochet and our first chain one next we will half double crochet in the next chain space and chain one that's what we're going to do all the way across I don't have any yarn to work in so that's kind of nice you don't have to worry about

45:51 that this really gives the same look as the round before it except that the Stitch are longer so it just gives a nice extra little space kind of a a design idea oops I split my yarn there now I worked across the top Edge and I want to work into my corner the corner will be half double croch crochet chain three and a half double crochet in the same chain three space that creates the corner and we

46:38 keep working the same as before chain one half double crochet in the next chain space chain one half double crochet in the next chain space and chain one continue across until you reach the next corner here we are at the next corner and we do the same thing half double crochet chain three and a half double

47:24 crochet and then we straight note our yarn cuz it's really knotting and we're back after I just got rid of a massive knot in my yarn so chain one half double crochet in the next chain space chain one half double crochet in the next chain space chain one and keep on moving [Music] so now we've reach the next Corner half double crochet chain

48:10 three half double crochet chain one and keep moving across the next Edge [Music] next Corner half double crochet chain three half double crochet chain one and we're back to where we started we want to do a slip stitch in the second chain of the beginning chain three that would be

48:57 considered the top of our half double crochet so we just pull through a loop and the one on the hook and now we can cut our yarn because I'm done with this white yarn pull that through there we are with this portion of the square and I'm going to work this end in the same as I worked the other ones you go down into the next it's actually a chain because we worked into the second chain of a three chain so just go into the center of that chain pull the thread through the yarn bring it back up through the Stitch you just slip

49:42 stitched that gives you a nice Loop and then we go into the back Loops only all the way along this row and I go as far as I can I just Bunch them on the needle pull it through stretch it out so it looks nice and even doesn't pucker your work you can take this around the corner but I think I'm good so I'm going to clip this yarn and there we have six rounds completed with our ends worked in which is a really nice bonus you can again stop here and just use this square or you can add two more rounds so I'll get you going on those next two rounds

50:28 so with this next one I'm going to use this color oatmeal and do two more rounds but this round that I'm going to do now you can do as many or as few of this round to make the square bigger or not as big but just to add in an extra color if you want to which is what I wanted to do we go to one of the corners here the chain three corners and we want to start in here we're going to work a standing single crochet in here if you don't like doing the standing so single crochet I'll show you the alternative this is the way I always used to do it you insert your hook wrap the Yon around pull it through that's considered a slip stitch join you chain one and then you work a single crochet into that same

51:13 Stitch this is a perfectly legit way to do this and it is the way I did it for years however I really love the standing single crochet now and it's become my go-to I have a much slower video for this if you're having trouble seeing what I'm doing but I'll show you again here I hold the Yon at the back with my fingers I wrap the Yon around the hook first then I insert it into the space underneath the cut yarn at the back yarn around and pull it up so I have two loops on the hook yarn over and pull through both of those that gives me my standing single crochet which doesn't have a slip knot that's

51:59 the way that I do it and now we're going to chain one so again I'm going to work my yarn in so I won't really talk about it this time because it's the same way I've been doing before but this is how I do it so I will do it while I show you the pattern we're going to chain one and single crochet in the first chain space chain one and single crochet in the next chain space see how I'm working that yarn in as I go chain one single crochet in the next chain space and you can see as we're working here how these half double crochets gave you just a little bit of extra texture

52:45 in here so these are the singles then we had halves now we're going back to singles and it gives it a nice little different geometric look to it again chain one single crochet in the next chain space chain one single crochet in the next chain space and I'm pretty much at the end of my cut yarn so I'm just going to throw it up to the top one more time for the next chain and then let it go and continue with single crochet chain one in each of these chain spaces all the way across so this round is the

53:30 same as two rounds before so this is round seven it's the same as round five when we reach the corner and we do our chain one we do a single crochet chain three and a single crochet now we've worked our way around the corner and we're going to continue across the next section the same way as we did this one again a very simp simple Stitch chain one single crochet in the next chain space chain one single crochet in the next chain space and keep on going like that so this one I'm not going to complete all the way around um I'll let you go ahead because it's very simple just single crochets and chain ones and

54:17 when you get to the corners you do the single crochet chain three single crochet so I'll meet you back here where we'll finish off this round so we've come to the last corner and I've worked the same way all the way around this Square when we get to this last Corner we do the single crochet chain three but we already worked a single crochet into started so we will just slip stitch into that single crochet and that completes round seven now I've gone ahead and done another round exactly the same so let's get started on that and then I'll let you go ahead with it you want to slip stitch

55:02 into the next chain space because we're only working in chain spaces so insert your hook into that first chain space pull up a loop and pull it through the loop on the hook you've now slip stitched over to the chain space now we're going to work a chain one and a single crochet to start the next round all into that first chain space then we chain one move to the next chain space and single crochet again chain one move to the next chain space single crochet we're going to do this all the way across this top Edge and I'll just move quickly along here till we get to the

55:47 corner then when we get to the corner we work a single crochet chain three and a single crochet into that same chain three space and we've turned our corner just like we did before you're going to do this all the way around I'll meet you back here to finish off the square and then when we reach the end of our round we work into this chain three space single crochet chain three single crochet chain one and we're back to where we started slip stitch into this first first single crochet and then you're going to cut your yarn which I already did pull it through and then we're going to darn

56:34 that last end in the same as we did all of our other ones you're going to go down into the next Stitch right down the center of it up through the center of the Stitch that you just slip stitched and then you're going to work it in to the back Loops only I like these uh edgings because they're perfect for my join as you go and you'll see I'll have a pattern up for this happy petal with a blanket with the joint as you go instructions as well so see how that's all finished there I'm just going to clip this last little end and there you have your finished

57:23 square with no ends on the back and that completes the happy petal Square try out each of the sizes for different project ideas and even mix up the color order to create a different look to your Square you can check out my shop for patterns using the square I'll leave the link below for that if you enjoy this tutorial please give it a thumbs up and remember to subscribe to my channel so you're sure to catch all my tutorials as they come out thanks for joining me today and I'll see you in the next tutorial