Waves of Grain Square- Unique Granny Square Pattern
This beautiful and unique Granny Square pattern is the square version of my Waves of Grain (wheat stitch).
I wanted to use the V-Puff stitch in a Granny square, and still create a stable square that lies flat perfectly. The combination of V stitch and V Puff stitches creates a lovely wheat stitch texture, and an eye-catching Puff stitch granny square.
The pattern features a nice repeat section that can be repeated to create a larger granny square blanket with a unique, wheat-like texture.
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When I crochet blankets, or a big project, I would always prefer to find a way to start a project without working a long starting chain. Working a crochet blanket from the middle out spares the need to start with a long chain and also creates a beautiful texture, even when using basic crochet stitches.
The combination of the V-stitch and the V-Puff stitch in the Waves of Grain Granny Square pattern makes an eye-catching texture, and will make a gorgeous granny square blanket! You can make several squares and join them together, or work one big granny square blanket by repeating the pattern.
If you’re looking for more center-out crochet blankets, you can try the Samma’s Blanket, and the Flower Granny Square Blanket.
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How to Change The Size Of This Blanket Square
Although this pattern is for a 14″ (36 cm) granny square, it can be easily adjusted to a smaller or a bigger size.
If you want to make this unique granny square pattern smaller, just work the rounds to your desired size. And if you want to work this square into a larger blanket, work the pattern up to round 14 and then repeat rounds 9-14 as much as you’d like.
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Waves of Grain – Unique Granny Square Pattern
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Skill Level – Intermediate
Materials I Used for my Square
– 5.0 mm / H crochet hook
– Worsted (#4) weight yarn (I used Knit Picks – Wool of the Andes).
Total amount of Worsted yarn needed for a 14in (36 cm) square: 100gr / 200m / 218yds
Gauge (in pattern) – Working rounds 1-5 with a 5.0mm /H hook will result in a 4” (10 cm) square.
Finished size – 14×14 in (36×36 cm) – Can be worked bigger, see pattern for repeats.
Abbreviations (US)
ch – chain
dc – double crochet
V-dc – [1 dc, ch 1, 1 dc] in same stitch
Puff – (yo, insert hook into indicated st, yo and pull up a loop) x 3 times working into same st, yo and pull through all 7 loops on hook
V-Puff – [1 Puff, ch 1, 1 Puff]
sc – single crochet
sp – space
ss – slip stitch
yo – yarn over
* – Repeats are shown via asterisks. Repeat begins at * and ends at ;
[…] – crochet the instructions within brackets into the same indicated stitch/space.
(…) – crochet the instructions within parentheses as many times as directed.
How to crochet the Puff stitch:
(Yo, insert hook into indicated st/sp, yo and pull up a loop) x 3 times working into same st/sp, yo and pull through all 7 loops on hook.
Notes
- Ch 1 and ch 2 at the beginning of the round don’t count as a stitch.
- Ch 5 at the beginning of the round counts as 1 dc + ch 2.
Waves of Grain Granny Square Instructions
Make a magic ring.
Round 1: Ch 1, (1 sc, ch 2) x4 into magic ring, ss to 1st sc. Pull the ring tight. (4 sc, 4 ch-2 sp)
Round 2: Ss into next ch-2 sp, ch 2 (doesn’t count as a st here and throughout),
[Puff, ch 2, Puff] in same ch-2 sp, ch 1, sk next sc.
* [Puff, ch 2, Puff] in next ch-2 sp, ch 1, sk next sc; Repeat from * 2 more times, ss to top of 1st Puff. (4 [Puff, ch 2, Puff], 4 ch-1 sp)
Round 3: Ss into next ch-2 sp, ch 2, [Puff, ch 3, Puff] in same ch-2 sp, sk next Puff, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff.
* [Puff, ch 3, Puff] in next ch-2 sp, sk next Puff, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff; Repeat from * 2 more times, ss to top of 1st Puff. (4 [Puff, ch 3, Puff], 4 V-dc)
Round 4: Ss into next ch-3 sp, ch 2, [1 Puff, ch 2, V-Puff] in same ch-3 sp, sk next Puff & dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff.
* [V-Puff, ch 2, V-Puff] in next ch-2 sp, sk next Puff & dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff; Repeat from * 2 more times, 1 Puff in 1st ch-3 sp you worked into, ch 1, ss to top of 1st Puff. (8 V-Puff, 4 V-dc, 4 ch-2 sp)
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Round 5: Ss into next ch-2 sp, [ch 5, V-dc] in same ch-2 sp, sk next Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff & dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff.
* [V-dc, ch 2, V-dc] in next ch-2 sp, sk next Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff & dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff; Repeat from * 2 more times, 1 dc in 1st ch-2 sp you worked into, ch 1, ss to 3rd ch of the beginning ch-5. (8 V-Puff, 12 V-dc, 4 ch-2 sp)
Round 6: Ss into next ch-2 sp, [ch 5, 1 dc] in same ch-2 sp, sk next dc, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp.
(Sk next dc & Puff, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff & dc, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp) Repeat (…) until 1 dc left before ch-2 sp-corner, sk next dc.
* [1 dc, ch 2, 1 dc] in next ch-2 sp, sk next dc, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp.
(Sk next dc & Puff, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff & dc, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp) Repeat (…) until 1 dc left before ch-2 sp-corner, sk next dc; Repeat from * 2 more times, ss to 3rd ch of the beginning ch-5. (12 V-Puff, 8 V-dc, 4 [1 dc, ch 2, 1 dc])
Round 7: Ss into next ch-2 sp, [ch 5, V-dc] in same ch-2 sp, sk next dc & Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff & dc.
(V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff & dc) Repeat (…) until ch-2 sp-corner.
* [V-dc, ch 2, V-dc] in next ch-2 sp, sk next dc & Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff & dc. (V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff & dc) Repeat (…) until ch-2 sp-corner; Repeat from * 2 more times, 1 dc in 1st ch-2 sp you worked into,
ch 1, ss to 3rd ch of the beginning ch-5. (12 V-Puff, 16 V-dc, 4 ch-2 sp)
Round 8: Ss into next ch-2 sp, ch 2, [1 Puff, ch 2, V-Puff] in same ch-2 sp, sk next dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp.
(Sk next dc & Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff & dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp) Repeat (…) until 1 dc left before ch-2 sp-corner, sk next dc.
* [V-Puff, ch 2, V-Puff] in next ch-2 sp, sk next dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp.
(Sk next dc & Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff & dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp) Repeat (…) until 1 dc left before ch-2 sp-corner, sk next dc; Repeat from * 2 more times, 1 Puff in 1st
ch-2 sp you worked into, ch 1, ss to 1st Puff. (20 V-Puff, 16 V-dc, 4 ch-2 sp)
Round 9: Ss into next ch-2 sp, ch 2, [1 Puff, ch 2, 1 Puff] in same ch-2 sp, sk next Puff, V-dc in next ch-1 sp.
(Sk next Puff & dc, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff, V-dc in next ch-1 sp) Repeat (…) until 1 Puff left before ch-2 sp-corner, sk next Puff.
* [1 Puff, ch 2, 1 Puff] in next ch-2 sp, sk next Puff, V-dc in next ch-1 sp.
(Sk next Puff & dc, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff, V-dc in next ch-1 sp) Repeat (…) until 1 Puff left before ch-2 sp-corner, sk next Puff; Repeat from * 2 more times, ss to 1st Puff. (16 V-Puff, 20 V-dc, 4 [1 Puff, ch 2, 1 Puff])
Round 10: Ss into next ch-2 sp, ch 2, [1 Puff, ch 2, V-Puff] in same ch-2 sp, sk next Puff & dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff.
(V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff & dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff) Repeat (…) until ch-2 sp-corner.
* [V-Puff, ch 2, V-Puff] in next ch-2 sp, sk next Puff & dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff. (V-Puff in next ch-1 sp, sk next Puff & dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff) Repeat (…) until ch-2 sp-corner; Repeat from * 2 more times, 1 Puff in 1st ch-2 sp you worked into, ch 1, ss to 1st Puff. (24 V-Puff, 20 V-dc, 4 ch-2 sp)
Round 11: Ss into next ch-2 sp, [ch 5, V-dc] in same ch-2 sp, sk next Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp. (Sk next Puff & dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp) Repeat (…) until 1 Puff left before ch-2 sp-corner, sk next Puff.
* [V-dc, ch 2, V-dc] in next ch-2 sp, sk next Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp.
(Sk next Puff & dc, V-dc in next ch-1 sp, sk next dc & Puff, V-Puff in next ch-1 sp) Repeat (…) until 1 Puff left before ch-2 sp-corner, sk next Puff; Repeat from * 2 more times, 1 dc in 1st ch-2 sp you worked into, ch 1, ss to 3rd ch of the beginning ch-5. (24 V-Puff, 28 V-dc, 4 ch-2 sp)
Round 12: Repeat round 6. (28 V-Puff, 24 V-dc, 4 [1 dc, ch 2, 1 dc])
Round 13: Repeat round 7. (28 V-Puff, 32 V-dc, 4 ch-2 sp)
Round 14: Repeat round 8. (36 V-Puff, 32 V-dc, 4 ch-2 sp)
Fasten off and weave in the ends.
If you want to make the square bigger, repeat rounds 9-14.
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Interesting pattern. I assume “ss” is slip stitch. I don’t see it in the abbreviations list. 😉
You’re right, thank you for catching that, Carol!
I added it to the abbreviations.
This pattern works up beautifully! I Love it. I turned my square into a dishcloth. I used a fingering weight cotton and a #3.5mm hook. I crocheted all 11 rows plus rows 6 & 7 and ended up with a 9″square. Thank you for all your beautiful patterns. I especially love your C2C patterns.