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How to Crochet a Granny Square for Beginners
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Jan 17, 2025
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hi in this video I'm going to show you
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how to make granny squares just like
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these ones that are all over my cardigan
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you see you can make clothes out of them
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and perhaps you could even just make a
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little pouch like this one which I
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haven't finished off yet and I'm
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wondering if I should add a video onto
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my channel telling you how to make a
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small pouch line it and put a zip in it
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so maybe that'll be my next video If so
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it'll appear on the end of this one but
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in the meantime let's get started
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stepbystep granny
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square so you just need to take your
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crochet hook and your yarn and make your
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little slip knot to start with like you
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always do and put your hook through and
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you're ready to go and then it's simple
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as making a short chain so you're just
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going to do a chain of six
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stitches if you prefer a magic uh ring
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then you can do that but I'm going to
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use a chain in this case and then you
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put your crochet hook through the first
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chain
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stitch wrap the yarn round and P pull it
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through now you're pulling it through
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that Stitch and the original one so you
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formed a nice
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ring and that's what we're going to work
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from so you can see I've got that tail
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there so we're going to do one two three
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chain stitches and that's going to act
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as our first Stitch and now you're going
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to do two more stitches and if you're in
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the UK you're doing trible crochet
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stitches and if you're in the US you're
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doing double crochet stitch stitches and
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what that means is you wrap the yarn
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round through the hoop yarn round back
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through yarn round through two stitches
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and yarn round through the other two and
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that forms your Stitch once you've got
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those stitches we're going to do one two
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three chains that form the corner and
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then we're going to go back to our
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treble or double crochets depending what
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you call them okay so you can see I've
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done one and then it's yarn round
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through the loop I shouldn't call it the
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loop I should call it the center so
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let's go again yarn around the hook
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through the hoop in the center yarn
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round and back through yarn round and
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through two stitches and yarn round and
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through the other two stitches and then
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you're going to form your three crochets
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three chain crochet for the corner and
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then we're back on doing our three
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stitches again so you can see there's
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quite a pattern here so I've spent it up
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while we just whip through those three
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stitches and then we're going to do
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three chains and that's going to be the
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third corner and then if we do three
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stitches this is going to be our final
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side and then all we'll have to do is
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that final
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corner so you're going to do your three
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chains again and then you've got to find
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the top chain of that starting chain
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which formed your first Stitch
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put the hook through hook the yarn and
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pull it all the way back through as a
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slip stitch so now you've got your first
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Square so if you're changing color cut
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off your yarn feed it through the Stitch
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the loop you've got and it's nice and
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secure now if you're not changing color
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you're just going to keep going but
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assuming you're changing color with me
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it's time to find your next color and
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you're going to
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make a slip not loop again as you always
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do when you're starting your
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crochet but this time put your crochet
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hook through one of the corners and I
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recommend you select different Corners
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as you work your way out then go through
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that slip knot you've done pull it
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through yarn over and pull it through
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and it'll be
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secure and then we're going to do what
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we did before which is three chain
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stitches and then two treble or double
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crochets depending whether you're UK or
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us but it's exactly the same Stitch as
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you were doing before so because you've
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already done one set of three chains you
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just need two
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stitches you can see it's exactly the
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same as the other
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row then you're going to do three chains
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for the
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corner then you're going to do three
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stitches
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I'm hoping you're starting to see that
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this is quite rhythmic it's repetitive
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just keeps going in the same vein so
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this time once you've done all three
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we've got to get along to the other
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corner so we're just going to do one
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chain stitch to take us
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across and then into that far Corner
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we're going to do our three stitches
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again so you can see I'm just working
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into the corners in the same as we
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worked into the Central Loop right at
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the
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beginning once you've got all three
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you're doing those three
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chains and then you're doing another
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three
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stitches that's one let's get the others
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done and it's becoming
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routine so again you're going to have to
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do the same on the other half so you're
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doing one chain and then another
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corner and your Corners are always the
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same so you do your three stitches your
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three chain your three stitches and then
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in between them you've done one chain to
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get you along the side now I'll be
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showing you the next row because the
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next row is slightly different and then
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every row after that is in exactly done
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in exactly the same way so it's really
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important we just do the next row and
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then obviously I'll talk to you at the
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end about weaving in all those ends CU
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you can see you're going to end up with
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a lot of them if you change color on
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every row nothing says you have to so
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when we get back to the beginning same
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as before through that top chain bring
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the yarn through them both and now we've
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got an end and we just need to put it
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through the
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loop and secure
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it definitely a granny square
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appearing so let's go with our third row
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and for us in this case it's our final
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row but you can make these as big as you
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like so I'm starting it in exactly the
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same way as I did the last row so I'm
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just starting in a corner doing my three
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stitches doing my three chains then
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doing three
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stitches and then this time I can't just
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reach all the way across to the other
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corner so I'm going to do one chain and
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then I'm going to do three stitches in
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that middle hole that we've got along
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that
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edge and then I'll do one
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chain and then I'll go into the other
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corner and do that corner exactly the
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same way as I did the other
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corners and then work my way around
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repeating that on all four sides so I
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hope you're finding this helpful and
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you're enjoying having a go at a granny
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square they really are useful and they
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really are great
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fun if you are liking it please could
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you give it a thumbs up so it spreads to
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more people cuz that's how it works if
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you like it it gets passed to more
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people so more people can learn their
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granny squares there are other ways of
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doing granny squares but this is the
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most common and I think in many ways the
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easiest to learn it's the one you'll see
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a lot in patterns so it's well worth
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getting your head round so you can see
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I'm getting all the way
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around and you'll not be surprised when
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I get to this end I'm going to finish
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off in exactly the same way as I have on
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the other rows so there'll be a chain
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and then into that top chain stitch and
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just a little slip stitch
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and there you go this is the size of
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Granny Square I used on my cardigan so
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for me that's a granny square
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complete so what do we do with all those
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ends well the easiest thing to do in my
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opinion is to work them in using a blunt
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needle so some people call them a Bodkin
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it's up to you but you just want to
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thread your yarn through it and then
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you're going to put the
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needle through several Stitch stitches
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three four five it doesn't matter and
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just go
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through and then you're going to turn
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and come back the other way but you must
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go over one stitch first so you go over
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one stitch and then just back through
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the remaining stitches so that it can't
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pull
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through and that will just secure it and
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hold it in
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place and then
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obviously you need to do that with all
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of them and this is the drawback of
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granny squares you can up with an awful
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lot of ends to weave in and there you go
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I completed granny square I hope you've
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enjoyed it and let's see what's next
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