A few weeks ago, I shared the pattern for my Simple Crochet Hexagon, which is perfect for using up scrap yarn. Today, I am sharing a Simple Crochet Square with the same stash-busting vibes. It uses the same basic stitches as the Hexagon and is even easier to memorise.

Simple Crochet Square Pattern

This is actually not a new design.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been sorting through samples, experiments, and prototypes I started and never finished. Tucked away amongst them, I found a square I’d completely forgotten about.

I designed it in 2017, when Scheepjes Whirl first came out (you can see glimpses of it in the post I wrote about Whirl way back then), and used it to start an asymmetrical shawl.

Spoiler alert: I never did finish that shawl…

Why?  Asymmetry, Maths, and I had a big fight, and none of us would back down, so we remain at an impasse.

Finding the square again felt rather serendipitous. I’ve been designing patterns for using up little bits of yarn, and suddenly there was this forgotten square that was perfect for exactly that AND had the same simple lace vibes as the Simple Crochet Hexagon.

I hadn’t written down the pattern (or if I did, I have no idea where I saved it), so I unravelled a few rounds of the original, reverse-engineered my own work, and crocheted it again.

I am using my Yarnsmiths Pebble Haze Prints DK, left over from the Little Love Notes Blanket.  The colour changes in the yarn are long enough that the squares don’t end up with a jarring colour change between the first and last stitches of the last round, which is always a bonus.  And the colours in this specific colourway (2D350) make for a brilliant, slow ebb from one rainbow hue to the next.  

As with the hexagons, you can join the finished motifs to make a variety of items.

One of the things I love about simple motifs like this is that they don’t particularly care what yarn you use. So, in the interests of stash-busting science, I made the square in 9 different yarns from my stash – from teeny tiny Scheepjes Maxi Sugar Rush with a 1.25 mm hook, all the way up to Scheepjes Truly Scrumptious with a 5.5 mm hook.

It’s a little bit like one of those click-baity YouTube videos where the creator says, “I’ve done X, Y, Z… so you don’t have to”!

The smallest square measures just 3.5 cm and weighs less than a gram. The largest measures 12.5 cm and weighs 12.4 g.

Obviously, these are just the yarns I happened to have on hand, but they should give you a good idea of the kind of size and yarn usage you can expect when raiding your own stash.

It is worth mentioning that I am a tight crocheter, so odds are you’ll use more yarn than me, and your squares will be bigger :)

Simple Crochet Square Pattern

© Dedri Uys 2026.  All Rights Reserved.  Chart by Masako Kawahara.

Resources

• Ravelry:  Add this Pattern to Your Ravelry Queue
• Hashtag:  #SimpleCrochetSquare
• Video Tutorial:  You can find a US Terminology right-handed tutorial HERE on YouTube.

Translations

• None Available Yet

Materials

You can use any hook/yarn combination you fancy.  

I am using:

• 4mm crochet hook
• Yarnsmiths Pebble Haze Prints DK (2D350)

Size Using Above Yarn and Hook

• 8cm from side to side
• 3.1g per motif

Notes

• These squares are perfect for using up small bits of scrap yarn.
• Please Note:  If you are using a yarn that breaks easily when you yank on it, replace the magic ring at the start as follows:  Ch 4, sl st into the 4th ch from the hook to form a ring.  Work your stitches into this ring.

Abbreviations

US Terminology

• Beg – Beginning
• Ch – Chain
• Dc – Double crochet
• Hdc – Half-double crochet
• Sc – Single crochet
• Sl st – Slip Stitch
• Sp/sps – Space/spaces
• St/sts – Stitch/stitches
• [] – Stitches to be made in the same st/sp
• () – Repeat instructions between brackets the number of times specified
• {} – Stitch Counts

Chart Legend

Instructions

Round 1:  Working into a magic ring, ch 4 (counts as dc + ch-1 sp).  (Dc, ch 1) 11 times.  Join by making a sl st in the first ch-1 sp.  {12 dc and 12 ch-1 sps}

Round 2:  Ch 1 (doesn’t count as a st throughout), sc in the same ch-1 sp.  (Ch 4, sc in the next ch-1 sp) 11 times.  Ch 4, join to the first sc with a sl st.  Sl st in the next 2 ch sts. {12 sc and 12 ch-4 sps}

Round 3:  Sc in the same ch-4 sp.  (Ch 3, hdc in the next ch-4 sp.  Ch 5, hdc in the next ch-4 sp.  Ch 3, sc in the next ch-4 sp) 4 times, omitting the last sc on the last repeat.  Join to the first sc with a sl st.  Sl st in the next ch-3 sp.  {4 sc, 8 hdc, 8 ch-3 sps, and 4 ch-5 sps}

Round 4:  Ch 3 (counts as your first dc).  Make 3 dc in the same ch-3 sp.  ([4 dc, ch 2, 4 dc] in the next ch-5 sp.  Make 4 dc in each of the next 2 ch-3 sps) 3 times.  [4 dc, ch 2, 4 dc] in the last ch-5 sp.  Make 4 dc in the last ch-3 sp.  Join to the top of the beg ch-3 with a sl st.  Fasten off and work away your ends. {16 dc per side, not including ch-2 corner sps}

I am excited to see what you do with this pattern!  Please remember to use the hashtags #lookatwhatimadedotnet and #simplecrochetsquare so that I can find your work!

More Small Medium Patterns

• Emma Square Pattern
• Kay Square
• Jeanette Square

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