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Crochet Shapes: Transforming Hexagons into Perfect Squares
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Dec 16, 2024
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hey gang Jane back today with another fun crochet granny square tutorial I often get asked if I can turn a hexagon
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shape into a square so this has been on the quest list for a while now and it's time to dive in and show you guys my
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method of changing up a granny hexagon into a granny square in today's tutorial I'm going to use my flora hexagon and
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square it up although hexagon shapes giv unique design that creates artistic and geometric pieces squares are actually
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more versatile easier to make and match with other designs and honestly easier to join together so to take a hexagon
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design and then Square it up is really a win win unique design and versatile
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shape remember you can find more of my granny square free patterns over on my blog both hexagons squares and octagons
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and I'm always coming up with more ideas techniques and projects so if you haven't already hit that subscribe
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button and the notification Bell so you catch all my new tutorials as they drop on YouTube tube now before we get into
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this let's just briefly talk about shapes for a minute to help you give a better idea of where we're going with
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this the challenge with turning a hexagon shape into a square is that you're going from Six Corners to Four
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Corners and six does not work evenly into four so the corners are going to have to be placed in what seems like odd
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places on the edges two edges of your squares will have a hexagon point in the
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middle and two of them will have the flat side in the middle because a square
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doesn't fit around a hexagon evenly it's easy to end up with a rectangle instead of a square a great way to tell if you
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actually squared your hexagon properly is to fold it like a triangle and if it folds perfectly from corner to corner
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then you have a win the next question you may ask is will this work with any granny hexagon shape yes and no the
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concept of placing the corners the way that I have in this tutorial will work with any hexagon however the number of
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stitches and the heights of the stitches that needed to make the corners themselves will depend on the size and
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Stitch count of the particular hexagon pattern you're working on so you will need to do some tweaking in that area
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this particular tutorial starts with the floor Square already worked up to and including round seven so check out the
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description below to find the information on finding the original Flora Square pattern to get you started
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all right let's get going on this project I love using up scraps in my squares so of course I end up with balls
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like this without the labels but define yarn that has labels so I can show you guys what I've used in this is usually a
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bit of a hunt in my yarn shelves now the colors that I used and we'll be using for this Flora Square are charcoal which
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is a Bernat premium Walnut also Bernat but is Super Value clay which is Bernat
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superv value as well and putty which is impeccable by Loops and threads which is Michaels Walnut will be the key color in
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this tutorial but we'll be using the others to add a nice border to our new square shape you're also going to need a crochet hook
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which I'm using a 5.5 this is the Susan Bates ergonomic silver Loom I get a lot
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of questions on this a nice foam handle and I love these hooks you're also going to need a pair of scissors and a Dary
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needle gather your supplies and get that Flora hexagon made up to round seven so
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again you can find the link for that in the description below for the original Flora hexagon you want to get all the way to
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round seven completed and then you're ready for this one and then we're going to continue on with round eight being
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the squaring round so I have my Walnut color ready to go here and I'm going to
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get ready for my squaring round we start by joining with a single crochet and
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we're going to join in the first single crochet to the left of the corner in
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round seven we did the corners with a single crochet chain one single crochet
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and what we want to do is pick single crochet that's on the left side
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of that corner that's where we're going to join and I join with a standing single crochet so I wrap my yarn around
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my hook first holding it with my finger I hold that cut end in place I go into
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the Stitch and under the cut end and then I complete my single crochet let's
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zoom in so I've joined my yarn with a single crochet in that first Stitch to
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the left this would be the chain one is actually really hard to see because the chain one doesn't leave a lot of space
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but you want to go into that first Stitch now we're going to work single crochets across this Edge so let's Zoom
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back a bit here so now we want to work eight more single crochets across this
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Edge one in every Stitch I'm just going to work over my cut end to work it in
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going into the next Stitch single crochet continue to work single crochets
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one per Stitch until you have a total of nine
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including that first one where we joined the yarn
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in so let's see how many we have here 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 I have one more single
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crochet to do
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so now I've done the nine stitches I've worked into this last single crochet before the chain one I want to skip over
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the chain one and work into the next single crochet and I want to work a half double
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crochet so right into that next Stitch not the chain one space and work a half
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double crochet next Stitch will be a double crochet and we're still working one
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stitch for one stitch here and now we've reached our
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corner it doesn't look like it should be a corner but you're putting Six Corners
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into four so this is where it gets
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tricky the next Stitch right here will be a treble and we're going to work our
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corner so it's actually two trebles a chain three and two trebles all into
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this next Stitch so treble is wrapped twice around the hook insert into that next Stitch
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still working over the cut yarn here and complete your treble by going through two two and two it's a complete treble
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stitch doing another one of those into the same
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space two two and two so we have two
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trebles into that one Stitch chain three 1 2 3 and now we work two more trebles
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into that same Stitch so this is your complete Corner done into this Stitch
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another treble and that completes your corner so
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here we have nine single crochets skipping over the chain one
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space we do half double crochet double crochet and then our Corner two treble
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chain three two treble now we're going to work down the next Edge which will
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take us to about here the next corner will be about here let's take a look at our actual finished piece to give you a
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better idea of where we're at here's the finished hexagon square and this is how far we've come so I'm going to line it
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up here and you're going to see we worked our single crochets across and then we did our height increasing to the
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corner and there's your corner and then we're going to come down here so you're going to decrease the
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Stitch height not the stitches themselves but the height of the stitches to this point then you're going
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to increase the Stitch height to about here where your corner happens and then
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very quickly decrease your Stitch height and go single crochet going to repeat what we did here single crochet across
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and then you're going to quickly increase your Stitch height like we did here to your corner and then again
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decreasing Stitch height to this point increasing to the corner and quickly decreasing to finish the round this
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whole section right here is one repeat and then you repeat it again so you're
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only doing it twice so now that you know what we're doing we're going to work all the way
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across until we hit the next corner there's going to be lots of different stitches going on here next Stitch is
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going to be a treble into the next
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Stitch now a double crochet into the next
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Stitch and a double crochet again into the next Stitch so each at this point
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every Stitch goes into a separate Stitch half double
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crochet and then a half double crochet and we're going to finish off this half
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of the edge with a single crochet now we've reached the chain one
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of this point we're not working into it but we are going to chain
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one now we're going to reverse what we just did right here and we're going to go a single crochet into the first
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stitch on the other side of that chain one so I'm going to zoom in so you can see where we are here so the last Stitch
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we worked into is here and you can see these are the single crochet chain one single crochet of the previous round
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here's your single crochet you just worked chain one and you want to go into this Stitch right here and work a single
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crochet it's not the chain one but the chain one is such a small space the only
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reason I put it in there on the previous round is to create some space and here
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again I want to create space but I need an extra stitch in there that doesn't create any height
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that's why I'm using the chain one let's continue on down here I'm going to zoom back out and we're going
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to finish our Edge okay working back down to the next Corner we start with we have our single
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crochet already on the other side of the chain space next Stitch will be a half double
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crochet a half double crochet again every Stitch goes into a different Stitch at this
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point double crochet into the ne
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next double crochet into the next Stitch
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again and now we're doing a
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treble and we've reached our next Corner this is going to be two trebles chain
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three two trebles into this next Stitch so again trebles are twice around
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the hook again you want two of them in that same
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Stitch right there chain
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three and two more trebles into that
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Stitch next Stitch will be a double crochet we're going to quickly decrease
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our height of stitches and a half double
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crochet and we've reached our next hexagon point which is a single crochet
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chain one single crochet from the previous round so we've worked our last
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stitch on this part now we have the chain space and we're going to start again back to where
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we were so taking a closer look at this you can
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see this is our corner right here which was our two trebles chain three two treble into that
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one stitch right there and then you quickly went double crochet half double crochet and you're ready to start the
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next Edge so let's zoom out and look at our whole Square so here we have the finished square and let's overlay the
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one that we've already worked on let's make sure that we line it up properly there we go so we started here and we
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worked our single crochets then we worked to a corner and then we did the height
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decrease so I'm not saying Stitch decrease height the height of the stitches see how it went like a triangle
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to here to the next point and then we increase the heights of the stitches to
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the next corner and we're ready to start here so we're literally halfway done
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we're we're going to do everything that we just did starting here and going all the way down and across this Edge and
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finishing off so you've already done everything once everything you've done you've
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already done it all we have to do is repeat it so here we are at that single crochet
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chain one single crochet from the previous round and we want to skip over the chain one and go into that first
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single crochet with a single crochet and we're going to do eight more
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for a total of nine one into every
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Stitch across this
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Edge one more here I'm going to count them just to make sure always count your stitches it's much easier to count as
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soon as you've done them rather than another round up where you realize you made a
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mistake 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 good I have
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the right the right number now we're going to quickly change
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our Stitch Heights to go to a corner skip over the chain one space and
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go into the first single crochet after it that's going to be a half double
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crochet stitch now we work a double crochet into the
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next Stitch and we're at our Corner we're
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going to work two trebles chain three and two trebles into this next
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Stitch that's one
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treble that's two trebles
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chain three and two more trebles twice around
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the hook don't forget to go twice around the hook this is a very tall
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Stitch and there is my corner two trebles chain three two
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chbl now working our way up to the next point we do another treble in the next
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Stitch
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now we work a double crochet into the next Stitch and a double crochet in the next
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Stitch now then over the next two stitches are going to be two half double crochets so half double crochet in the
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next oops Stitch and half double crochet in the
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next one and finishing off with a single crochet in this next Stitch and you will
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be right back up to the next point and that'll be the last single crochet on
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this edge of the hexagon now we want to chain one cuz we need to create this
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extra space and this extra Stitch and then single crochet into the next stitch
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on the other side of the chain one from the previous round and we're going to work our way back down reversing what
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we've done here so we have the single crochet now we want to do half double
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crochet another half double crochet into the next Stitch every Stitch is it has it
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own Stitch now double crochet and another double
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crochet now we want to do a
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treble and we're back to a corner so we want to do it doesn't look like a corner
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right cuz it's in the middle of an edge but it's a square Square corner so in this next Stitch we're going to do two
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trebles chain threes and two trebles so two
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trebles that's one that's
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two now I want to chain three 1 2
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3 and then two trebles will complete this corner
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so there we have two trebles chain three two trebles next Stitch will be a double
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crochet half double crochet in the next Stitch and that completes this round
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you're right back to where you started with the single crochet you want to slip stitch in this first single crochet so
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insert your hook pull up a loop and pull it through the one on the hook that completes your squared round so you can
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see here you have the square points in place it can still seem a little wonky
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cuz you are going from Six Corners to Four Corners that's why I like to put in the extra rounds so let's take a look
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here at the finished one we've done this brown part and now we're going to do another round of brown
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which is going to crisp up our corners and then we'll finish it off with the borders of white and black so continuing
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on with the Walnut color we're going to work the next round and we have ended here with the slip stitch in the first
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single crochet of the previous round we want to chain one and single crochet
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into that same Stitch now chain
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one skip the next Stitch and single crochet into the next one you're going to hear that a lot skip the next Stitch
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and single crochet into the next one that's what most of this round is about with a few exceptions so chain one skip
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the next Stitch and single crochet in the next one we're going to continue to do that until we hit this last Stitch so
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I'll walk you through that chain one skip the next Stitch single crochet in
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the next one and then repeat chain one skip the next Stitch single crochet in
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the next one keep working that that way till we get to that last
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Stitch and here we are skipping this second last Stitch and working into this
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last Stitch before the chain three chain
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one and single crochet into the chain three
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space chain three and now single crochet again into
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the chain three space and we're ready to work across our next Edge now this next
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Edge is going to be a little different because we have a chain space in the middle of it so we'll work our way
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across chain one now single crochet in the first Stitch don't skip over
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anything yet single crochet in that first Stitch after you've done a chain one after the whole corner so single
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crochet chain one now we start skipping stitches skip this next Stitch and sing
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single crochet in the next one and repeat that chain one skip the next
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Stitch single crochet in the next one chain one skip the next Stitch and
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single crochet in the next one chain one skipping the next Stitch we are now
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going to single crochet in the chain one space cuz we've come up to it single
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crochet in that chain one space right at that point chain one skip the Stitch
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after the chain one space and single crochet in the next one so on this Edge we have that chain
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one space that's how you work it chain one skip the next Stitch single crochet
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in the next one now you're seeing we're getting very repetitive here because
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it's single crocheting chain ones and skipping stitches every second Stitch
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now we come to the next corner and you skip over the second last Stitch and single crochet in the last Stitch to go
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into the corner we chain one and then we single crochet into the corner chain
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three and then single crochet again into the corner and we've completed that edge and
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the corner now working over this next one there's no chain one space on this side
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only here at these points on these two sides so this next Edge is
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straightforward chain one single crochet uh in every second
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Stitch so I will go quiet here I'll get you started we start with a chain
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one single crochet in the first Stitch chain one and now we are going to
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work in every second Stitch with a chain one in between single crochet chain one
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skip the next Stitch you can watch me work it right to this corner and we'll do the corner
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together
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here we are at the next corner you want to skip the second last Stitch and single crochet in the last Stitch chain
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one and then in the corner you're going to do a single crochet chain
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three and a single crochet now we've done two full edges and a partial edge here
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now we're working back across this edge with the chain space in the middle so let's work our way up to that chain
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space chain one single crochet in the first
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Stitch chain one skip the next Stitch single crochet in the next keep doing
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that until we get to that chain one space in the center of this row
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and we get there pretty quick so right here I did the chain one skip this Stitch and there's the chain one right
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there the chain one space work into that then chain one and continue on to
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the corner by skipping the next Stitch and single crochet in the
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next we get to the last two stitches you skip the second last and you work into
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the last chain one work your corner single crochet chain
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three single crochet that's your corner we have a few stitches left to complete
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this round chain one single crochet in the first
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Stitch chain one skip the next Stitch single crochet in the next one chain one
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and we're ready to to join our round you skip over this Stitch and you slip
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stitch in the first single crochet and that completes your round let's take a
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look at it so now you can see the edges are a lot crisper the corners are a lot crisper let's pull in on the one that's
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already finished and take a look beside it and you can see it matches this one and your points are a lot sharper so now
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we're going to do a round of white and a round of black which is the same single
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crochet chain one skip a stitch stitch and it really brings your square into a
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nice shape so I'm going to be starting a new color so I want to cut my color cut
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a few inches pull it through and then like I like to do I
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actually darn this end in now so that it's done so the way I secure this end is I go back into the Stitch that I just
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came out of like that's the slip stitch one right there I go down to loops
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and then I pull it back up one stitch
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behind and then I just go into the back Loops only all the way across and I get
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as many of them on there as I can and that's where I hide my end
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because then I'm just going to work over that next round so it works them in even
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better there we go I have it all the way to the corner so I'm just going to clip it there and now we're ready to join our
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new yarn so I'm going to join this one in a corner cuz that's where I like to join new colors in any one of these
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chain three space Corners we're going to join with a standing single crochet so I
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wrap the yaron around the hook insert into the corner and under the cut-end
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Strand pull up a loop and complete my single crochet we're going to work a single
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crochet chain one Edge all the way across so we work them into the chain spaces
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that are already there so everything's already set up for us I work my end in as I go so I take my cut end up over the
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working yarn and I chain one then I bring it back down I go into the next
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chain space from the previous round under my cut end and I work a single
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crochet this whole Edge will be chain one single crochet all the way across
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and you will only be working in the chain spaces that were already created so let's work our way to the next Edge
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and you can just watch me do this I'm going to work my yarn in as I go up and down across the working yarn
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and then back only working in the chain spaces
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that cre created in the round before and I'll keep working my yarn in
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until that end kind of just disappears
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so I'm going to going to leave it like that the shorter it gets the more the harder it gets to work
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in and I'll just clip that off at the
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end now we've reached the next chain space corner and we're going to work into that with a single crochet chain
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three and a single crochet let's take a look at what we've done here so not
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counting the corners we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Single crochets and 11 1 2 3 4
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5 6 7 8 9 10 11 chain one spaces per
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Edge and then you have the corners which are a single crochet chain three single
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crochet so again you're going to go across this Edge exactly the same way chain one single crochet in the first
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chain one space you're not working into any stitches on this one just chain
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spaces and you'll complete this the same way so you can see here how I went
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around the corner everything in chain spaces and chain ones so I will let you
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go ahead and complete this all the way around I'll meet you back at this corner and we'll complete this round together
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I've worked all the way around my square and I'm back to my final Corner that I started in so we worked our last single
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crochet in this chain space chain one single crochet in that same corner you
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started in chain three and slip stitch in that first single crochet so just put
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it in there I love the look of the standing single crochet but it is a little bit tricky to get your hook into
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especially when you're working with a bigger hook so now we have completed this I'm
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going to clip my YN cuz I'm done with this color and I will darn it in the same way
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I did the run before where I'll take it down Loop it and then I'll go along the these stitches right here just back
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Loops only and then that will be worked in as well there is our square with one
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color border on it that one takes you to round 10 and this one takes you to round 11 the only difference here is I added
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one round of black exactly the same as the white so I won't go ahead and do
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that because you can add as many or as few of this kind of round as you want the rounds are exactly the same you
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start in the corner and you only work in the chain spaces and you do your Corners
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with the chain threes so in this one I added around black but you could keep it with just this round of white because at
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this point your square is nice and crisp you could do a blocking on that I usually do just because the hexagon can
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cause its own little skewing issues this Square measures out to about 7 in and then by adding this extra round I've
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pretty much added another half inch so let's put this one on top and just see
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you pretty much add a half an inch to your square with each one of these rounds so it's really handy if you're
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trying to add a bigger Square just add a few more of those rounds on and now your
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Flor hexagon has a beautiful square frame around it so you can use it to make blankets sweaters and even mix and
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match it with other Square shapes hop on over to my blog to find more free patterns for my squares hexagons
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octagons all sorts of stuff over there and you can find more creative inspirational ideas over on my Instagram
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