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A simple crochet stitch becomes a fully customizable square or rectangle in this Sofia Square tutorial, perfect for making anything from a coaster or mug rug to a baby blanket, doll blanket, dishcloth, potholder, or cushion cover. The pattern starts with an even number of chains, then builds a textured fabric using single crochet, chain spaces, and repeating rows that can grow as long or as wide as you want.
The tutorial walks through the materials, row-by-row crochet instructions, color changes, border edging, and optional tassels. You can follow along with medium weight cotton yarn and a 5 mm hook, or adapt the stitch for different yarn weights and larger projects. It is an easy-to-follow crochet guide for makers who enjoy granny square style projects, textured stitch patterns, and versatile handmade home accessories.
If you want a free crochet pattern tutorial that works for any size square or rectangle, this is a great project for beginners and experienced crocheters alike. The final edging also shows a practical way to crochet in loose ends as you go, making the finishing process faster and neater.
Ideal for searchers looking for crochet tutorial, free square pattern, rectangle crochet pattern, mug rug crochet, baby blanket pattern, dishcloth crochet, potholder tutorial, and beginner-friendly crochet edging. It is also a useful guide for anyone who wants a customizable crochet project with clean texture, easy color changes, and a finished look that works in many sizes.
The tutorial walks through the materials, row-by-row crochet instructions, color changes, border edging, and optional tassels. You can follow along with medium weight cotton yarn and a 5 mm hook, or adapt the stitch for different yarn weights and larger projects. It is an easy-to-follow crochet guide for makers who enjoy granny square style projects, textured stitch patterns, and versatile handmade home accessories.
If you want a free crochet pattern tutorial that works for any size square or rectangle, this is a great project for beginners and experienced crocheters alike. The final edging also shows a practical way to crochet in loose ends as you go, making the finishing process faster and neater.
Ideal for searchers looking for crochet tutorial, free square pattern, rectangle crochet pattern, mug rug crochet, baby blanket pattern, dishcloth crochet, potholder tutorial, and beginner-friendly crochet edging. It is also a useful guide for anyone who wants a customizable crochet project with clean texture, easy color changes, and a finished look that works in many sizes.
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00:08Hi everyone! Today we're going to crochet this lovely little project. It's a stitch that's very
00:15versatile and allows you to make whatever you want as a square or rectangle shape. So you can
00:22use this pattern to make a coaster like I did here or a mug rug. You can also use it
00:28to make
00:28a doll's blanket or you can make a baby blanket or a very large blanket. You can use really whatever
00:37type of yarn you'd like. For today I will be using this medium weight cotton yarn paired with a 5
00:44millimeter crochet hook and aside from that all I need are scissors. Again if you're using different
00:54yarns you'll want to use an appropriate sized hook for that. This blanket project used jumbo weight 7
01:01yarn and a 20 millimeter hook just for reference and it created a really large plush blanket.
01:12To begin I'm going to go ahead with a chain to start. For your chain you're going to do a
01:19slipknot
01:20like so and then you start chaining. That's 1 chain, 2, 3, 4, 5, and so on. You're going to
01:30want an even
01:31number of chains. In my blanket pattern I did list 36 chains to start with the jumbo yarn but here
01:39I'm going to go ahead and go with fewer. I'm trying to make a mug rug instead or a little
01:51coaster
01:51so I think I'm going to stop where I feel like this is probably long enough. Just make sure you
02:00have an even number of chains so you're going to want to count to double check. I counted up and
02:05I
02:05now have 16 chains. Again if you want to make a longer one just add an even number of chains.
02:12If
02:12you want a shorter one you can take out chains. For row one what you're going to do is insert
02:19a single
02:19crochet in the fourth chain from your hook. So here I'm going to count back a little bit. That's one,
02:26two, three, four. So I'm going into this fourth chain with a single crochet. Let me get that little
02:34fuzz out of the way. Sorry. So there's my single crochet in that fourth chain from the hook. Now
02:43what you're going to do is chain, skip a stitch, and single crochet in the next stitch. We're going
02:49to do that all the way across. So chain, skip this next stitch, insert a single crochet in the next.
03:16chain, skip a stitch, single crochet in the next stitch.
03:23chain, skip a stitch, single crochet in the next stitch.
03:36And if you've made an even number of chains, your very last chain should have that single crochet
03:45to finish. Like so. Now what you can do is move on to row two. For row two, you're going
03:56to chain two,
03:57one and two chains. You're going to turn your piece. So I'm going to flip it over. Then what you'll
04:06do is
04:06single crochet into the first chain one space. So looking below, I made that first chain one space,
04:16or this is the first chain one space I see. I'm going to insert and you can tell it's a
04:24chain one space
04:24because there are two single crochets beside it. So here's that chain one space. Here's the next chain
04:32one space. Here's the next one. Here's the next one, and so forth. So what we're going to do is
04:39basically
04:39work in those chain one spaces. We're going to insert a single crochet in that first chain one space,
04:45like so. Then you're going to make a chain and single crochet in the next chain one space.
04:56And we're repeating that. So chain and then single crochet in the chain one space.
05:04chain, single crochet in the chain one space.
05:10And all the way across.
05:31And when you go all the way across, you're going to finish with a single crochet in the chain three
05:39space
05:39at the start of round or row one. So here I'm going to insert my hook into that,
05:46between that chain three area to finish. And this is what row two looks like when it's all done.
05:56Now let's move on to row three. For row three, we're going to chain two,
06:03one and a two. We're going to turn our piece and basically work in a similar way as row two.
06:12You're just going to single crochet in that first chain one space. So that's right here
06:21between those two single crochets.
06:27Like so. Then you're going to make a chain and go into the next chain one space.
06:37Chain, single crochet in the next chain one space. And we're working this all the way across.
06:46When you reach the very end, you are simply going, oops, got caught there. All right.
06:57When you reach the very end, you're simply going to finish with a single crochet in the chain two space
07:04at the start of the previous row. So here's that chain two. We're going to put our hook in and
07:14pull up
07:14for a single crochet. So that's that for row three. And from here on out, you're basically going to repeat
07:25row three until your piece reaches the desired length. So you can keep going for as long as you want.
07:33You can make it short. You can just, it really depends on how you want your piece to look.
07:42You can easily use this to make like a square piece. Just make sure your length and your width
07:49are the same. Or you can turn it into a rectangle, whatever you'd like. So a lot of countless possibilities
07:57here. And you can also have fun with changing colors every few rounds. What I'm going to do is change
08:05colors
08:05now to show you what that would look like. To change a color for the next row, I'm just going
08:11to pull
08:12out the last part of my single crochet in the previous row. So instead of pulling through and
08:21finishing that single crochet with green yarn, I'm going to attach my new color. I'm going to use this
08:27pink here. And oops, sorry about that. Let's go ahead and pull through. So here I'm finishing off my single
08:38crochet with my new color, which is pink. And then I'm going to continue on the pattern like normal.
08:46And what you can do is tie the ends of the new color and the old color together.
08:53We will weave in the ends when we do the border or the edging at the very end of this
09:02project.
09:03I'll show you what that looks like too in this video tutorial. But for now, you can go ahead and
09:11just tie the ends together so that they stay in place. Don't worry so much about weaving in or trimming
09:18the ends just yet. But I am going to snip off that green yarn so that it doesn't look,
09:25it doesn't get tangled up with my new yarn. There we go. All right. So again, for this,
09:35for each of these rounds now, for each of these rows, excuse me, we're going to repeat row three,
09:41which is chain two, turn your piece, single crochet in that first chain one space. Oops.
09:52There we go. Then chain and single crochet in the next chain one space all the way across.
10:02What I love about this stitch is that it produces really lovely texture when you color change.
10:14And so I highly recommend playing with that and using different yarn colors here.
10:25And here I've reached the end of the row. So I'm chaining two, turning, and then doing my single crochet
10:32and chain all the way across.
10:57As you can see with the color changes, you can have some nice stitches that show up right in between
11:05those two changes. And what I'm planning to do is crocheting three full rounds or three full rows
11:13and then switching colors every three rows. Again, you're welcome to play with the yarn colors however
11:19you'd like and change out whichever rows you want. If you do want to stick with one solid color,
11:26I'm sure that would look really great too. I'm going to show you what my project looks like
11:32when I have all of my rows finished.
11:39Here's what my piece looks like so far with all the rows finished. I decided to go up to this
11:45length
11:45and stop there instead of going on. If you want to, again, continue and make your piece longer, feel
11:53free to. Otherwise, stop where you want it to end. And we're going to go ahead and work on the
11:59border
12:00or the edging now. You're going to pick the yarn you want to use for the edging. I'm going to
12:05stick with
12:06this green yarn to go all the way around with. To do so, what you're going to do is make
12:13a chain to start.
12:15Then you're basically going to insert a single crochet in each stitch around the blanket or
12:24not the blanket. Sorry, this is a coaster. But if you're making a blanket,
12:30stick with that word. But we're going to single crochet into both the single crochets and into the
12:37chain spaces. So we're going to go all the way around like so. And at the corners, the only thing
12:44you're going to do different is put a single crochet, chain and single crochet all in the same stitch
12:50before you continue down to the next edge. All right, so you can go ahead and work in whichever
12:59row you want to, whichever edge you want to go first. You can go down along the side or you
13:06can go along
13:07this edge by turning. And it's all right if you have these loose ends because what you're going to do
13:14is crochet them in while we work around. I'll show you how that's done. All right, what I'm going to
13:21do
13:21is actually turn my piece and I'm going to work along this way first. So I could let you get
13:29the hang of
13:29it before going and weaving in the edges. So in that first stitch, instead of going in the chain one
13:37space,
13:38going into that first single crochet, and I'm going to make a single crochet, single crochet in that chain
13:46one space, single crochet in the single crochet stitch, and in the chain one space, and the single crochet stitch.
13:57And again, working this all the way around.
14:04So you're going to end up with a nice, neat edging.
14:26And here I've gotten to the very corner. So what I'm going to do is make that chain, excuse me,
14:33the single crochet, chain, and single crochet all in that same stitch. When I do that, it allows me to
14:41kind of go over around the bend and I can work along the next edge. So let's work along the
14:49edge.
14:50In here, you're just going to insert a single crochet in each stitch, or in other words, in each row.
15:02And when I come across these
15:06ends that need to be woven in, I just hold on to them against the edge. And I basically single
15:13crochet them
15:15into
15:20the piece.
15:23Like so. You see how I'm holding on to the ends and single crocheting them together.
15:34Oops. This way you don't have to actually take a yarn needle and weave in the ends, which is so
15:40much
15:41faster and easier.
15:52Here I'm holding the next set of ends to crochet in between my single crochet stitches.
16:09I don't know anyone who loves weaving in the ends, so hopefully this is a good tip for
16:17new crocheters out there.
16:19All right, so I'm at the very corner here.
16:23I'm actually going to trim those ends off because I've woven them in enough
16:28that I don't need these sticking out anymore.
16:35And remember at the very edge, the corner here, you're going to single crochet, which I already did.
16:42Then you're going to chain and then single crochet in that same space.
16:47And then now we're going to work a single crochet in each stitch across here. This is the starting chain
16:56area.
17:21And in this corner, it's a single crochet, chain, and single crochet
17:28to bring me to the next edge.
17:33All right, let me go ahead and crochet down this last edge here.
18:02All right.
18:07Now let's do it, guys.
18:07Let's do it.
18:08Let's dig in.
18:08Let's do it.
18:08Let's do it.
18:14All right.
18:16When you reach the very end, what you're going to do is, since you started off with the single, the
18:24chain and the single crochet here, I'm going to do a chain and slip stitch to the first single crochet
18:31that you made.
18:39All right. And you can weave off with a bit of a tail at this point. You're going to weave
18:44in this tail as the final tail.
18:50And take a look at your project. These would make really cute little doll blankets too, I think.
18:59All right. And if you'd like to, you can go ahead and add tassels or you can add in a
19:07little rug edging to your piece.
19:25I'm going to make some tassels for my rug here.
19:29So I just wound it around my hand to make the length and I'm going to go ahead and cut
19:36this edge.
19:44So take a few strands and I decided to turn my piece upside down.
19:51This is the right side and I'm seeing it's the right side because I'm just looking at the final edging
19:55part.
19:57And I'm going to go ahead and pull it in here.
20:10And pull this through.
20:49All right. When you are all done, you're going to want to trim the ends to make your tassels nice.
21:17And I'm going to weave in my final end with a yarn needle here.
21:21Or sorry, not a yarn needle with just a hook.
21:25If you want to use a yarn needle, you are definitely most welcome to.
21:30However, I find that a hook is just easier for me to grab and weave in one loose end.
22:03And that's that for this cute little blanket slash mud rug slash doll blanket or whatever you want to turn
22:13it into.
22:14Again, this is such a fun customizable project and it's going to look great in different types of yarns.
22:22Have fun exploring different color combinations as well.
22:25And I hope you'll enjoy more of my tutorials in the future.
22:31All right. Thanks, friend. Bye now.
22:34Bye now.
22:41Bye now.
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