Quick Tips: Joining Granny Squares with HDC
Brenda K.B. AndersonFor a neater join in your Granny Squares, try making this tiny adjustment. Joining your granny squares with this method will make your joins blend in seamlessly, even when you are working a granny square in only one color (without cutting the yarn).
Try this technique out on the lovely Floral Crossbody Bag. You can find the free pattern and full tutorial here.
One of my favorite ways to finish up a granny square is to join at the end of the round with a half double crochet. So what that looks like is this you'll start out with your groups of 3 double crochets, work them all around pretty much as normal. You'll finish up here with 3 double crochets in that same place where you started. Just like that. And then you join with a half double crochet to the top of this turning chain like this.
And the reason I like doing this so much is because you end right at the corner, which is great in case you just want to keep going. So you can chain 3 and then begin again by working your double crochets in here and repeating the same exact process. So it's a really nice way to finish up a granny square.
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