Learn How to Crochet Granny Squares Together using the fastest and easiest method. You’ve already learned how to pack-up the granny squares in diagonal rows. Now, you learn how to unpack one square at a time, and crochet the border and assemble the afghan in no time at all!
The secret is in the corners!
On the first row, you learn to crochet the basic border.
On the second row, you learn these to:
- Attach all the squares of a diagonal row together
- Join squares at the corners on the outer edge
- Join adjacent squares at the side spaces
- Handle corners when only three squares meet
On the third row, in addition to repeating the techniques of the second row, you learn how to join corners when 4 squares meet. Repeat these techniques for the remaining rows.
Only when you get to the last half of the last row does the entire afghan sit in your lap and practice an alternate way to join corners when 4 squares meet.
You will get on a real crochet high when you start seeing granny squares transformed into rows and rows joined into the afghan! Enjoy progress! You know you can do it! Soon, you will leap to completion!
If you like to have written instructions, you can also download the free pattern. Joining a Granny Square Afghan documents the same technique…but in writing. The video and pattern can be used separately or together. Expand your thoughts about joining a granny square afghan via the Matz method!
Easy-to-do and easy-to-understand. Best of all…the excitement grows as you see the afghan come together!
