In this tutorial i'm going to be showing you how to make the sunburst granny square this is
actually a remake of an older video that i have i thought it was about time for a revamp and i've
also made a few changes to the pattern itself i am using Caron simply soft in four different colours
today but you can obviously choose whichever colours you want for this pattern i'm using a five
millimetre crochet hook with this yarn but you can use whichever hook size suits the yarn that you've
selected you will also need a pair of scissors and a darning needle for sewing in your ends i will
leave a link to the blog post in the description box below simply click that show more button or
the downward arrow if you're on a mobile device and you'll find all of the information there
including the yarn information and also the free written pattern as well as a pinnable image so you
can pin this to your pinterest board for later as always i'd love it if you give this video a thumbs
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date with all of my latest videos okay let's get started we're going to start by using colour A and
we're going to create a slipknot and you can use whichever method you prefer you can actually start
off with a magic circle if you prefer but i'm just going to do a slipknot for this particular version
and a chain to start off with so we're going to go ahead and chain three one two and three and
then join into the third chain from the hook with a slip stitch and this is going to create a circle
so we have our centre circle just here so that's where we're going to be working into so for row
one we're going to start off by chaining three one two and three this is going to count as our
first treble crochet i am talking in UK terms so in the US this is known as a double crochet
and then what we're going to do is do 15 trebles into that centre circle that we've just made so
it's yarn over insert your hook into the centre of the circle yarn over and pull through you'll have
three loops on the hook yarn over pull through two loops and then yarn over pull through two loops so
that is your treble crochet if you are unfamiliar with a treble crochet i do have a dedicated video
especially for that so you might want to go ahead and check that out and then come back
to this video if you need further help so that's our first treble crochet so one of 15 this is two
three and four you want to pause the video work those 15 treble crochets i would work in your
tail end hold it down as you're working round just to secure it in a little bit and then meet
me back once you've done those 15 stitches okay so once you've worked your 15 stitches
we then have our chain 3 which counted as a stitch at the beginning of this round
so we have 16 stitches in total what we're going to do is join with a slip stitch to the top
of that chain three so just pull through and pull through and then you're going to chain one
and snip off that colour and now we're ready to move on to round two so for round two we're
going to be using colour B so go ahead and grab that and then meet me back in a moment
okay so for round two we're going to take our colour B and then i'm just going to
join this on now i tend to join mine before the finish of the last round so that i can
carry my yarn through as i'm working so but you can actually join this in any stitch you like
i'm going to insert my hook into a stitch just before the last join loop the yarn over leaving a
tail end and then pull through you can join with a knot if you prefer it's totally up to you but i'm
just going to pull mine through like this so for round two we're going to start off by chaining one
and then we're going to do one puff stitch into each stitch all the way round so this chain one is
not going to count as any stitch it's just to get us up to the height of a puff stitch and now we're
going to work that puff stitch just notice that i'm carrying these tail ends over to this side the
way that i'm working so that i can crochet them in as i go along and it just secures this first
section just here so for a puff stitch we're going to yarn over insert our hook into that same stitch
that we've just connected to yarn over and pull through and then you're going to pull up a loop
so we want to pull this up so that we'll work into the height of the stitch we're going to yarn over
insert yarn over pull through and then pull up that loop again
and then once more yarn over insert yarn over pull through and pull up
you will have seven loops on your hook one two three four five six and seven
at this point we want to yarn over turn your hook to face all the way down because if you're trying
to pull that through like this it won't come through so you want to have your hook facing
all the way down and then just pull through all seven loops on the hook and then we're going to
chain one to secure that in place and that is your first puff stitch we're then going to move
into the next stitch and again i'm holding these tail ends down and we're going to go yarn over
insert into the top of that next stitch yarn over pull through and pull up and for the second time
pull up and then one more time
pull up so we have those seven loops on the hook yarn over turn your hook down
pull through all seven loops and chain one to secure so i'll just go through that one more
time with you and then you can work your way all the way around so holding these tail ends down
and going into that next stitch yarn over insert yarn over pull through and pull up that's one
two and three times yarn over pull through all seven loops on the hook and chain one to
secure so go ahead work those puff stitches all the way round you will have 16 in total
this first one will look slightly bigger than the rest of them just because we have that chain one
there so don't worry about that work your way round and then meet me back once you're ready
okay so i've just worked my way all the way round i have those 16 puff stitches and then
what we want to do here is slip stitch into this first puff stitch so go into the top
of the stitch and slip stitch and then we're going to go ahead and tie off so you can
tie off that colour you want to go ahead and grab your colour C and then meet me back in a moment
okay so for round three we're going to take colour C and then we're going to
join in any of these chain one spaces so in between the stitches and again i'm going to
yarn over and pull through leaving a tail end so i'm just going to loop that through you can
tie that on if you prefer for round three we're going to chain two this does not count as a stitch
and then what we're going to do here is do a cluster of stitches so in this case we're
actually going to treble crochet four together so i'll just show you how to do that in the US that
is known as double crochet four together so we're going to yarn over go into that same space yarn
over pull through and then yarn over pull through two so we're not going to finish off that treble
so that's one and then again yarn over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two
that's two we're not pulling up on our stitches this time like we did on the puff stitch because
it will make the stitches too long here so just work as if you're doing a normal treble crochet
and then one more time yarn over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two
and then once more yarn over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two
so you've essentially made ignoring this first chain three here one two three four trebles and
you'll have five loops on the hook yarn over pull through all five loops and then we're going to go
ahead and chain one to secure and then chain another to move over so we're going to do that
again yarn over insert into the next chain space yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two
and again pull through two and again pull through two and then the last time pull through two
so that's four stitches made five loops on the hook and then yarn over pull through
all of those loops on the hook chain two one and two to move over to the next stitch
so i'll just show you that one more time yarn over insert yarn over pull through
yarn over pull through two that's one two
three and four yarn over pull through all five loops on the hook and chain two
so go ahead work that all the way round until you have done your last stitches and then meet
me back once you're ready okay so once you've worked your way all the way around we're going
to go ahead and join with a slip stitch into that first stitch and go ahead and tie off
so that is the end of our round three we're then going to go ahead and use
colour D for our last round so go ahead and grab that and i'll meet you back in a moment
okay so for round four again we're going to take our yarn i'm going to start off in the stitch
just before where my tail end is and again i'm going to bring that yarn through with a loop
and then we're going to start off by chaining four so it's one two three and four
this is counting as our first double treble so in US terms this is known as the treble crochet
and what we're actually going to do is start off by doing some stitches in this first
space here and then we're also going to do our last stitches in this same
space just here so we're also in this round taking our motif from being circular to square
so we're going to create some corners here and this is our first corner so what we want to do
here is do two double trebles into this same chain two space so that's yarn over twice insert
into that space yarn over pull through you'll have four loops on the hook yarn over pull through two
three loops on the hook yarn over pull through two two loops on the hook and then yarn over
pull through those last two so because this chain four is counting as a double treble we essentially
have two here already and then we want to make one more so yarn over the hook twice insert
yarn over pull through four loops yarn over pull through two three loops pull through two two loops
and then pull through two and then we have our three stitches we're going to chain one this
moves us over to our next chain two space and again i'm laying these tail ends down
and then what we're going to do here is do three treble crochets into this next chain space
so we're going to yarn over insert yarn over pull through pull through two and
pull through two so that's our first treble our second and our third we're going to chain one
and then move over onto the next chain space and again do three trebles one two and three
chain one and again move over into the next chain space and do three trebles one two and three
so we have just made our first edge just here and now we want to make another corner space
so the full corner space is worked like this we'll do three double trebles so yarn over twice
insert pull through two pull through two pull through two that's one two
and three we're then going to chain two one and two that's going to class as the corner
and then do another three double trebles into that very same stitch
or into that very same space should i say so one two
and three chain one to move over to the next chain space
and then do three trebles so we're essentially making a side piece again here
chain one and then we're going to repeat all the way round so your pattern repeat
here is three trebles chain one three trebles chain one three trebles chain one
create the corner which is three double trebles chain two three double trebles create your side
again your corner and your side once you've done these last three trebles on this side or blocks
of three trebles on this side meet me back and i'll show you how to finish off this last corner
okay so here's where you should be up to now you have your side your corner side corner
side corner and then your last side and then we meet ourself back at the beginning so i've
just done my three trebles i'll chain one and now we're going to work into this very last
stitch which i mentioned at the beginning so we're going to go ahead and do our three double trebles
that's one and two and then the third chain two to make the corner one and two
and then simply slip stitch into the top of that chain four from the beginning of the round
chain one snip off the yarn and there we have our fourth and final round
so because i have worked in this yarn as i went along i can actually snip
this off from the first few rounds the only one that i don't want to snip off at the moment is
the centre one because we just need to sew that in a bit more and just to make sure it's secure
i like to go back and forth i've already worked in one way so if i go back and forth once more that
is that's been done three times so it's nice and secure and also sew in the end of the last round
you might also wish to block your square so that these corners are really nice and defined
and then also if you have your other blocks they will all be the same size for when it comes to
connecting them all together so this is the sunburst granny square
i will leave a link in the description box to the blog post where you can find the written
pattern for this and also suggestions for how to connect these as well so make sure
that you go and check that out if you like this video make sure that you give it a thumbs up
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