This is a free crochet pattern and video tutorial showing how to crochet a flower granny square that’s perfect for scraps and works up quickly. Pull your favorite colors from your stash to create a field of flowers in whatever project you choose to do.
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Start with a beautiful, floral afghan square that’s perfect for scraps and works up quickly. Pull your favorite colors from your stash to create a field of flowers in whatever project you choose to do.
Some ideas for this square:
- Make 1 in cotton yarn for a washcloth
- Make 1 in any fiber for a wall hanging
- Make several and sew together to create a tote bag, rug, blanket and so much more
- Experiment with different weight yarns to get different sizes for endless possibilities!
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Seems I’m just addicted to this cute crochet flower motif in the Spring!
You may enjoy some of these other fun, free crochet patterns in the Delilah Series:
Delilah Table Runner & Delilah Wall Hanging
Spring Fling Crochet Event 2025
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Materials:
- 51 Yards Total of Worsted Weight #4 Yarn – I used Lion Brand Pound of Love in Honey Bee (Flower Center, 6 yards), White (Petals, 6 yards), Olive (Leaves, 4 yards) and Denim (35 yards)
- H8/5mm Crochet Hook
- Tapestry Needle
Yarn Notes:
Depending on the project you’ll be working with this square, the yarn options can vary, but they’re practically endless. Feel to use your favorite worsted weight yarn, but I’ll provide some ideas for a couple projects:
For things like an afghan, scarf and shawl, acrylic yarn, like the Pound of Love I used, is a good choice. For a cozier option, go with a wool blend, like Lion Brand Wool Ease or Cascade Pacific. For a warm weather option, a cotton blend, like Berroco Modern Cotton or Lion Brand Made with Love are great choices.
For things like a tote bag, washcloth or table runner, a 100% cotton yarn, like Circulo Natural Cotton Maxcolor 4/6, WeCrochet Dishie or Queensland Coastal Cotton is what I would recommend. These are nice, durable options that wear and machine wash well and are also colorfast (not all cotton yarns are).
Time Spent:
- Flower: Just over 15 minutes
- Square: About an hour
Measurements:
- Flower: Taken from the position of one petal at the top center, 3 1/2″ wide by 3 7/8″ from tip of top petal to tip of bottom petal
- Square: 6” Square
Gauge:
After Round 2 aka the Center of the Flower, measure the diameter = 2 1/4”
Abbreviations (US Terms):
- DC – Double Crochet (Photo Tutorial)
- SC – Single Crochet (Photo Tutorial)
- HDC – Half Double Crochet (Photo Tutorial)
- TR – Treble aka Triple Crochet
- BLO – Back Loop Only
Pattern Notes:
I work my increases a little different than most, and that is that the first stitch from the first set of increases is done in the first stitch of the round, which will appear just to left of the beginning chain, then the round will be worked as normal, and the final stitch of the round will be the second stitch of the first set of increases, and it will be worked into the same stitch as the first, and appear just to the right of the beginning chain. Check out my photo tutorial here: How to Keep a Straight Seam.
Though there are only three rounds in the flower, and a straight seam isn’t really an issue, this is my preferred method – you can work in your preferred increase method for the center as long as you end up with 24 stitches.
How I worked my yarn color change: after joining, pull the new color through the loop on your hook. Then, pull the original color tight and it will disappear. If it pops up as you work, just tug on the tail end of the original color again, and it will disappear. You will secure it down in place when you weave in your ends.
You can also work in the more traditional ways of pulling new color through in the last yarn over of the previous stitch (photo tutorial here: How to Change Yarn Colors in Crochet) or fastening off the center color, and rejoining the new color in any stitch, but I find the way I did it much easier, and it hides the color change.
When working round 5, you may opt to crochet directly into the chain itself for a defined little ridge or into the chain space itself (this is how I worked mine – make sure to work 1 stitch per chain).
I opted to work my border rounds in the back loop only. You can work underneath both loops instead. This will increase the finished size slightly.
After round 7, you will now have a square shape. If you would like your square to be larger, you can choose one stitch for the remaining rounds, either single crochet or double crochet (or any stitch of your choosing) and continue to work rounds increasing the number of stitches as you go and working the corners as (that one stitch, chain 2, same one stitch; ie HDC, chain 2, HDC) for a more rounded corner or with a chain 3 for a more square corner with the stitch here the same as the rest of the round.
Delilah Afghan Square Video Tutorial:
Delilah Afghan Square Written Crochet Pattern:
In Yellow, chain 5. Slip stitch to the first chain to form a ring. Chain 1 (does not count as a stitch here or throughout). Work 12 HDC into the ring. Join. (12 HDC)
R2: Chain 1. HDC into the 1st HDC, 2 HDC into each of the next 11 HDC, HDC into the same HDC as the 1st. Join with White, and fasten off Yellow. (24 HDC)
R3: In White, chain 1. SC into the 1st stitch, skip the next stitch, (3 DC, chain 2, 3 DC) into the next stitch, skip the next stitch, [SC into the next stitch, skip the next stitch, (3 DC, chain 2, 3 DC) into the next stitch, skip the next stitch] 5x. Join with Green, and fasten off White. (6 Petals, 6 SC)
R4: In Green, chain 5 (counts as a TR + chain 2), SC into the next petal chain space, chain 2, (2 TR, chain 3, 2 TR) into the next SC, chain 2, SC into the next petal chain space, chain 2, HDC into the next SC, chain 2, SC into the next petal chain space, chain 2, (2 TR, chain 3, 2 TR) into the next SC, chain 2, SC into the next petal chain space, chain 2, (2 TR, chain 3, 2 TR) into the next SC, chain 2, SC into the next petal chain space, chain 2, HDC into the next SC, chain 2, SC into the next petal chain space, chain 2, (2 TR, chain 3, 1 TR) into the next SC, which will be where the beginning chain is. Join with Blue to the 3rd chain of the beginning chain, and fasten off Green.
R5: In Blue, chain 1. SC into the 1st stitch, [SC across to the next corner chain space working 1 SC per chain and per stitch, (2 HDC, chain 2, 2 DC) into the corner chain space, (HDC across to the next corner chain space working 1 HDC per chain and per stitch, (2 DC, chain 2, 2 HDC) into the corner chain space] 2x, SC into the last TR. Join in the BLO to the 1st stitch.
R6 – 7: Chain 1. Working all of the stitches into the BLO: SC into the 1st stitch, [SC across to the next corner chain space working 1 SC per chain and per stitch, (HDC, chain 2, DC) into the corner chain space, (HDC across to the next corner chain space working 1 HDC per chain and per stitch, (DC, chain 2, HDC) into the corner chain space] 2x, SC into the last TR. Join in the BLO to the 1st stitch.
Fasten off, and weave in ends. Block if desired – I did not block.
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