The ultimate granny-square guide complete with 100 mix-and-match granny squares with charted and written instructions, a step-by-step beginner's guide to stitches, chart reading and more, PLUS 8 stunning granny-square projects!
From Claire Montgomerie, the best-selling author of the global phenomenon, The Granny Square Card Deck™ series (with 400,000 copies sold!).
Inside this gorgeously giftable, beginner-friendly guide you'll find:
100 colorful grannies, carefully designed to be mixed and matched in any combination!
Every granny-square design with both written and charted instructions, and a full-size, full-color photograph, so you can follow the patterns with ease in whichever way you prefer.
A complete guide to getting started, with information on yarn and hooks, a step-by-step illustrated stitch guide, advice on joining your squares, a complete guide to reading charted patterns and guidance on choosing and using color.
8 gorgeous projects to put your granny squares into practise, with multiple color options to inspire your creativity.
If you love The Granny Square Card Deck™ series, you will love this book, which contains a comprehensive toolkit of the crochet stitches and techniques needed, a step-by-step guide to reading charted patterns, 100 side-by-side written and charted patterns, plus 8 stunning projects!
This comprehensive book is a must-have guide for any granny-square lover, whether you're picking up a hook for the first time, or looking for designs to inspire you!
This expanded paperback edition includes the charted patterns from The Granny Square Card DeckTM (9781800922297, 2023) and The Granny Square Flowers Card DeckTM (9781800923065, 2024).
Claire Montgomerie is a textiles designer specializing in crochet and knitting. She has written many best-selling books on these topics, and also styles and edits the UK craft magazine Inside Crochet. Check out her website: clairemontgomerie.com and Instagram: @clairemontyknits
The Beginner's Guide to Crochet has now sold over 55k copies
The Granny Square Card Deck over 200k copies and in 9 different languages
The Granny Square Flowers Card Deck published May 2025, over 75k copies and The Granny Square Stitches Card Deck published November 2025, over 35k copies
INTRODUCTION 8 GETTING STARTED 10 About the squares 12 Yarn 14 Hooks 16 Other equipment 18 Basic stitches 20 Stitch chart symbols 30 Special stitches 32 Reading a stitch chart 34 Different working directions 42 Working over or under existing stitches 43 Using segmented charts 44 Working 3D flowers 45 Joining your squares 48 Color construction 51 THE 100 GRANNY SQUARES 54 THE 5 PROJECTS 256
The ultimate granny-square guide complete with 100 mix-and-match granny squares with charted and written instructions, a step-by-step beginner's guide to stitches, chart reading and more, PLUS 8 stunning granny-square projects!
From Claire Montgomerie, the best-selling author of the global phenomenon, The Granny Square Card Deck™ series (with 400,000 copies sold!).
Inside this gorgeously giftable, beginner-friendly guide you'll find:
100 colorful grannies, carefully designed to be mixed and matched in any combination!
Every granny-square design with both written and charted instructions, and a full-size, full-color photograph, so you can follow the patterns with ease in whichever way you prefer.
A complete guide to getting started, with information on yarn and hooks, a step-by-step illustrated stitch guide, advice on joining your squares, a complete guide to reading charted patterns and guidance on choosing and using color.
8 gorgeous projects to put your granny squares into practise, with multiple color options to inspire your creativity.
If you love The Granny Square Card Deck™ series, you will love this book, which contains a comprehensive toolkit of the crochet stitches and techniques needed, a step-by-step guide to reading charted patterns, 100 side-by-side written and charted patterns, plus 8 stunning projects!
This comprehensive book is a must-have guide for any granny-square lover, whether you're picking up a hook for the first time, or looking for designs to inspire you!
This expanded paperback edition includes the charted patterns from The Granny Square Card DeckTM (9781800922297, 2023) and The Granny Square Flowers Card DeckTM (9781800923065, 2024).
Author
Claire Montgomerie is a textiles designer specializing in crochet and knitting. She has written many best-selling books on these topics, and also styles and edits the UK craft magazine Inside Crochet. Check out her website: clairemontgomerie.com and Instagram: @clairemontyknits
The Beginner's Guide to Crochet has now sold over 55k copies
The Granny Square Card Deck over 200k copies and in 9 different languages
The Granny Square Flowers Card Deck published May 2025, over 75k copies and The Granny Square Stitches Card Deck published November 2025, over 35k copies
INTRODUCTION 8 GETTING STARTED 10 About the squares 12 Yarn 14 Hooks 16 Other equipment 18 Basic stitches 20 Stitch chart symbols 30 Special stitches 32 Reading a stitch chart 34 Different working directions 42 Working over or under existing stitches 43 Using segmented charts 44 Working 3D flowers 45 Joining your squares 48 Color construction 51 THE 100 GRANNY SQUARES 54 THE 5 PROJECTS 256