I have put two Granny Squares together, the first one I did a Single Crochet Join. I was not as pleased with it as I would have liked, so I looked for additional ones and found this video a couple of years ago. I watched it, not a big fan of most of them, but I fell in love with the Zig Zag Join. I used it to make my granny square and have had several family members try to claim it as theirs, I will have to make them their own as that one is mine. Thank you so much for this video.
Your tutorial is great. I not only learned the stitches but that there is a front and back in a granny sq and also when stitches would be useful. This was very helpful to this beginner.
Hi, Mikey. Once again you come through for me. My son died in 2012. My best friend's mom died in 2014. She left an unfinished projet of squares for an afghan. My best friend turned to me to finish it. I have been battling with the loss of my son and just haven't been able to bring myself to finish the project. Today, I said, if I can just go find a tutorial, hopefully with Mikey, learn how to do it, then maybe I can finish this as she really wants her mother's afghan. Thank you, Mikey. you have made it, again, so easy to understand. I should have this finished for her by end's week. She'll be so very happy..
That backloop method is amazing. I made granny squares years ago. When it came time to join it looked so bad I threw it away. Those were my early days..lol now I feel I can do again. Thank you so much.
I love your instruction. Very clear and Easy to follow. I learned crochet from watching your videos. You have become my "Go To Guy" for crochet. I prefer the Crochet Crowd.
I love the invisible stitch and the single crochet this tutorial was brilliant thanks I also learned how to crochet from watching urs and other's videos I have been crocheting for a month and I'm doing granny squares to sew or crochet them together and it will be my first one
Im starting a very big project for the military friends I know 4 flag blankets and I have never made a granny square blanket before so THANK YOU SO much for your help with how to join my squares I hope the blankets all come together good.
I am making a blanket and have twelve 24" squares to put together. Your zigzag stitch is what I've been searching for. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. It will be used this weekend. Thank you again.!!!!
Thankyou so much Mikey for this excellent tutorial,, I have finally started joining my hundreds of granny squares .. Your the best .. 🍃🌺🍃 Kind regards from Australia 🇦🇺
Thank you Mikey! You explain things so well. Really like zigzag stitch. Thank you for all your hard work doing these amazing tutorials! So appreciated.
Once again, thanks for this great tutorial! I experimented with that last one, using every stitch in the book. Half doubles complemented my piece perfectly. Thanks for showing me how it's done! :D
I didn't know your name or anything but I recognize your voice in your tutorials. If I'm looking to learn something and I'm browsing tutorials and happen to hear yours I know I've found one that I can actually learn from. Thanks for explaining things so easily.
Four Ways to join, this is excellent, just what I came looking for. Thanks, thanks, especially for explaining the USEFULLNESS of the different joinings. I like the Zig Zag, and I'm going to give it a try using single crochet to tighten the effect a bit.
Great tutorial! Cant wait to try the zig zag join. Thanku!! Gotta love a crafty man!( My 17 yr old son can loom knit and sew. Just need to teach him to crochet now!)
Hi Mikey! I really love that zig zig join but was still not happy with the large holes around the joins, so I altered your method a bit. Instead of using double crochet, I used half double, and I did not skip any stitches. This creates a solid join area with just a small ridge in the middle, and I really like it! I can see using your zig zag method for granny squares, but I'm using a more solid square and wanted the open areas to be more consistent. But, thanks for steering me in the right direction! xxoo
Gerri T I'd like to try your half double crochet join. I'm a beginner, so can you explain how you'd start this off (a chain 2 joining the corner stitches of the two squares first maybe?)
Thank you Mikey This has Helped a lot I am making a afghan for my nephew's wedding now I know which stitch i am going to use to join the squares. thanks for the video.
@@sparklygirl5040 I think I just slip stitched. This was a while ago. I've switched to continuous join-as-you-go to put together my granny squares. There are many videos on how to do that.
Thanks for this tutorial! I have a mile-a-minute afghan that I need to rework the joins because itvwas one of the first I ever made and did not join them securely enough, so I've got holes. Now I have a few options! I never have seen the zigzag join. I like the look.
Hi Mike, I'm so glad you teach so well, I have done so many projects for other people I decided to do something for me. So all my extra yarn went to make granny squares. Now I'm sort of stuck, I don't know how to turn into a shawl. I don't know if you can help me or not, or even if your still available. If you could hmb, it would be nice. Of course, I will figure something out, but I do want it to be pretty too.
My favorite is the back loop whip stitch. I think I might have seen the technique in one of the 'learn how to crochet' booklets...eons ago. I've been crocheting at least 43 years...
I join them with a slip stitch in the front loops, using a one-size larger hook, and then press them so they lay flat. It finishes them off beautifully.
GREAT tutorial. I always learn something new from you in each video I watch. I love how detailed you are. I am a very visual learner. You have helped & inspired me soooo much.
Thank you for your instructions! I have learnt so much from you and it is all so clear! I always look for your videos first, because I know it will be a winner!
Thank you for this helpful video. I did wonder of the "whip" stitch has anything to do with how they tie off the end of hemp ropes when they use whipping to cover the ends of the rope and bury the loose end?
I looked whip stitch up, and I found some interesting facts. In swedish it is called "kastsöm" and the term "kast" is most likely referring to "överkast" meaning bed cover or quilt. It may be a stitch made for quilts and such? Thanks for the tutorials!
Whip stitch was often used to hold finished edges together. If you didn't have fabric wide enough for sheets, you could whip it together along the selvage. The two pieces will unfold and lie flat if the stitches are not too far from the edges. And it was called "overcast".
Thanks! I think I'm going to use the zigzag stitch but I'm wondering how it works when you're going the other direction? ie if you made your strips going north-south, what happens when you're moving east-west and you encounter your seam between the squares?
Mikey a lil bit different from yer zigzag is also a zigzag that I do that u might like 2 try its with yer needle and getting a loop 1 on either side in zigzag formation and the joining comes out with the seems and in the middle its crisscrossed and it is a very nice effect almost looks like an additional design 2 the work try and let me know if u like it???? enjoy!!!!!
I need help please!!! Your video is fantastic but I don’t know how the middle of 4 squares is to look like or how they join. It leaves a hole if 4 sides are joined. Please help me as I’m doing your zigzag stitch. Thank you
Our Spring Garden Stitch Along has the same join. I have provided you a link to it that will start the video at that moment. You will see what it's like to jump across the panels. Hopefully this helps. ruclips.net/video/JIWIPPhYcTE/видео.html
I love all the projects and the left handed versions are awesome ! Is it great that you have instructions of left handed projects. Is there are a left handed version of this technique? Thanks !!!
Hi I am looking for a pattern to crochet tear drop shaped motiffs into a blanket. the squares are easy, but these are very difficult. thank you so much.
My first granny square project! I have made granny squares with a skirt in mind. I am at the point of putting them together. I keep going back to the drawing board. What method would you recommend that wouldn’t be too stiff, allowing for softness and closer to flat then raised? Thanks, Gloria
I love the variety of joins. Thanks! I have an afghan my deceased mother and I was making but the center of the join of squares is a bit like a spider web. Mother was doing the outer color of the blocks and crocheting them together. I don't know how to do that type join, and instructions are lost, so unable to finish it for a gift to my daughter. That wasn't the original goal though. Why do you call the yarn "string"? You did that several times.
Thanks a lot for the useful video! I'm a beginner who just recently finished all her granny squares - now I need to join them. I'll pick one of these, but I have a question - do I stitch the squares one by one, cutting the yarn for each side, or can I stitch the whole length of a row of granny squares?
Great info! It would be nice if you separated the different methods so you can immediately find the one of most interest. It is nice to see all the different methods compared. Thanks
I have different colors of 3 round granny squares...how do I make the join to two different colors so it looks like they're butted up with no stitching showing? I think there's a join as you go method but I've already made 50 different squares separate.
I'm using the zig zag, but unsure how to do the rows. It almost seems like you would join individual squares in one direction creating rows, then join all the rows together? That leaves so many tails to weave in. Is there a better way?
I have done a shell stitch scarf in three colours and it is too wide and also slightly untidy at the edges because of the yarn being carried up on the colour change, so I have decided to double it and join it and turn it inside out at the end. What stitch would be the best to join the sides without showing the edges?
In your opinion what is the best one to use if you are using 2 different colors. All squares are same color but I am wanting to use a different color to attach. Also, I wish you would have show all the different ones at the end. In other words show the entire piece that you worked on so we can see all the different ones at one time to choose
Help i hav a load of tiny we granys all solid one collers cant get them puy together cos stiches ar being seen i hav red ones white one and green ones so using one coller of thread wont work now
Hi Mikey. Do you already have a tutorial on how to make a granny square? I looked around in your channel but don't see anything. If not, can you make one sometime? I tried to follow a tutorial from someone else on youtube but I juat cant get it. Thank you.
Whip stitch 0:47
Invisible seam 7:52
Back loop join 13:15
Single crochet join 18:31
Zig zag join 21:34
Caroline Prentiss invisible stitch oriented stitches
Caroline Prentiss invisible stitches for orisontal kitting
Thanks
Flat braid join
+Caroline Prentiss Thanks. So helpful. I want the zig-zag join. Blessings.
I have put two Granny Squares together, the first one I did a Single Crochet Join. I was not as pleased with it as I would have liked, so I looked for additional ones and found this video a couple of years ago. I watched it, not a big fan of most of them, but I fell in love with the Zig Zag Join. I used it to make my granny square and have had several family members try to claim it as theirs, I will have to make them their own as that one is mine.
Thank you so much for this video.
Wonderful! Everyone loves something unique and glad you found what brings you the most joy.
Your tutorial is great. I not only learned the stitches but that there is a front and back in a granny sq and also when stitches would be useful. This was very helpful to this beginner.
I'm so pleased for your accomplishment.
Hi, Mikey. Once again you come through for me. My son died in 2012. My best friend's mom died in 2014. She left an unfinished projet of squares for an afghan. My best friend turned to me to finish it. I have been battling with the loss of my son and just haven't been able to bring myself to finish the project. Today, I said, if I can just go find a tutorial, hopefully with Mikey, learn how to do it, then maybe I can finish this as she really wants her mother's afghan. Thank you, Mikey. you have made it, again, so easy to understand. I should have this finished for her by end's week. She'll be so very happy..
+Amelia B I'm so sorry for your losses.
Amelia B - I am sorry too for your losses
Amelia B i really hope you were able to do this and much love to you x
I'm so sorry for your losses!
God's peace to you both!
That backloop method is amazing. I made granny squares years ago. When it came time to join it looked so bad I threw it away. Those were my early days..lol now I feel I can do again. Thank you so much.
I love your instruction. Very clear and Easy to follow. I learned crochet from watching your videos. You have become my "Go To Guy" for crochet. I prefer the Crochet Crowd.
I have just finished a huge project of granny squares and your video have saved me from connecting despair. Thank You!
I love the invisible stitch and the single crochet this tutorial was brilliant thanks I also learned how to crochet from watching urs and other's videos I have been crocheting for a month and I'm doing granny squares to sew or crochet them together and it will be my first one
Im starting a very big project for the military friends I know 4 flag blankets and I have never made a granny square blanket before so THANK YOU SO much for your help with how to join my squares I hope the blankets all come together good.
Thanks Mikey for explaining JAYG. Love the slip knot tip! Keep up the great fantastic teaching♥
I am making a blanket and have twelve 24" squares to put together. Your zigzag stitch is what I've been searching for. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. It will be used this weekend. Thank you again.!!!!
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Thankyou so much Mikey for this excellent tutorial,, I have finally started joining my hundreds of granny squares ..
Your the best ..
🍃🌺🍃
Kind regards from Australia 🇦🇺
I like the joining as it's much faster than crocheting all 100 squares. Enjoy the journey.
I like the zig zag and back loop stitch best. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Mikey! You explain things so well. Really like zigzag stitch. Thank you for all your hard work doing these amazing tutorials! So appreciated.
You are so welcome!
Thank you Mikey; you are truly gifted. It would be awesome to have crocheters as yourself around.
Once again, thanks for this great tutorial! I experimented with that last one, using every stitch in the book. Half doubles complemented my piece perfectly. Thanks for showing me how it's done! :D
Melissa Cassick rat
I used the ZigZag with a Half Double on my Granny Square and it worked beautifully. glad it was not just me that it worked for!
I didn't know your name or anything but I recognize your voice in your tutorials. If I'm looking to learn something and I'm browsing tutorials and happen to hear yours I know I've found one that I can actually learn from. Thanks for explaining things so easily.
Four Ways to join, this is excellent, just what I came looking for. Thanks, thanks, especially for explaining the USEFULLNESS of the different joinings. I like the Zig Zag, and I'm going to give it a try using single crochet to tighten the effect a bit.
I love the SC is so easy and looks good too
Great tutorial! Cant wait to try the zig zag join. Thanku!! Gotta love a crafty man!( My 17 yr old son can loom knit and sew. Just need to teach him to crochet now!)
Hi Mikey! I really love that zig zig join but was still not happy with the large holes around the joins, so I altered your method a bit. Instead of using double crochet, I used half double, and I did not skip any stitches. This creates a solid join area with just a small ridge in the middle, and I really like it! I can see using your zig zag method for granny squares, but I'm using a more solid square and wanted the open areas to be more consistent. But, thanks for steering me in the right direction! xxoo
Gerri T I'd like to try your half double crochet join. I'm a beginner, so can you explain how you'd start this off (a chain 2 joining the corner stitches of the two squares first maybe?)
Great idea Gerri! I think I'll try it with half double as you said, and alternate stitches to still give the zigzag look.
Love that back loop look
You are an excellent teacher.
Thank you so much for this tutorial, Mikey. I appreciate how clearly you demonstrated each method.
Nice video. Thanks for all the tips on joining the Granny Squares.
Thank you Mikey This has Helped a lot I am making a afghan for my nephew's wedding now I know which stitch i am going to use to join the squares. thanks for the video.
I'm actually doing a Roseanne blanket for myself and questioned how they joined their granny squares. Lol So glad I found this video! Thanks!
I can't tell you how much I appreciate you and your videos! Thank you so much!!!
Thank you for this Very Informative and Helpful Tutorial Mikey! I'm so Happy because I sure needed it.
Great video!! The contrast color was especially helpful. Thanks!
I’ve done this back loop option to wonderful result!Claudiasji.
You are a life saver! I love the zig-zag stitch. It's so easy and it look nice. Thank you.
How did you join corners??? Please help me
@@sparklygirl5040 I think I just slip stitched. This was a while ago. I've switched to continuous join-as-you-go to put together my granny squares. There are many videos on how to do that.
Thanks for this tutorial! I have a mile-a-minute afghan that I need to rework the joins because itvwas one of the first I ever made and did not join them securely enough, so I've got holes. Now I have a few options! I never have seen the zigzag join. I like the look.
Hi Mike, I'm so glad you teach so well, I have done so many projects for other people I decided to do something for me. So all my extra yarn went to make granny squares. Now I'm sort of stuck, I don't know how to turn into a shawl. I don't know if you can help me or not, or even if your still available. If you could hmb, it would be nice. Of course, I will figure something out, but I do want it to be pretty too.
So easy to understand. Thanks! Will give it a go tomorrow.
My favorite is the back loop whip stitch. I think I might have seen the technique in one of the 'learn how to crochet' booklets...eons ago. I've been crocheting at least 43 years...
I join them with a slip stitch in the front loops, using a one-size larger hook, and then press them so they lay flat. It finishes them off beautifully.
Well done tutorial. Looks professional and nicely organized.
GREAT tutorial. I always learn something new from you in each video I watch. I love how detailed you are. I am a very visual learner. You have helped & inspired me soooo much.
Thank you! Just what I was looking for. 😃
Super!
The invisible stitch was exactly what I needed for a blanket I'm making my son. It works up very nicely. Thanks for helping me out!
Mens skippers
Love the zigzag join!!! thank you so much xxx
Thank u
You make it so easy for a beginner like me ,
Hope all good for u
That Roseanne afghan really look great from a far .thanks for sharing. 😊
My favorite, the last one. Do you have tutorial for the four corners joining. Thank you. 🌹
Thanks for the great tutorial!
Love the zigzag stitch!!
I love the back loop seam!
Thanks Mikey for the tutorial!
Arne and Carlos have a great looking join on their channel ("How to Join Granny Squares)
Thanks.
Love that
Note to everyone asking about Mikey's needle: I found this needle i a pack called Dritz Repair Needles on Amazon just a few days ago.
Just as rusty? 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you!
thanks Mikey!
Thank you for your instructions! I have learnt so much from you and it is all so clear! I always look for your videos first, because I know it will be a winner!
Beautiful 😃👍
Thank you for this helpful video. I did wonder of the "whip" stitch has anything to do with how they tie off the end of hemp ropes when they use whipping to cover the ends of the rope and bury the loose end?
I looked whip stitch up, and I found some interesting facts. In swedish it is called "kastsöm" and the term "kast" is most likely referring to "överkast" meaning bed cover or quilt. It may be a stitch made for quilts and such?
Thanks for the tutorials!
Whip stitch was often used to hold finished edges together. If you didn't have fabric wide enough for sheets, you could whip it together along the selvage. The two pieces will unfold and lie flat if the stitches are not too far from the edges. And it was called "overcast".
Mickey, how do you do the corners I got the stitch except for the corners?
We're not just learning we're "experiencing" i like him
Seems the zigzag is the only one that would add to the dimensions of the project. And that’s just what I need, a few extra inches. ☺️
You and me both!
Thanks! I think I'm going to use the zigzag stitch but I'm wondering how it works when you're going the other direction? ie if you made your strips going north-south, what happens when you're moving east-west and you encounter your seam between the squares?
Wonderful teaching with clear demonstration! Thanks a lot! ^_^
Thank you Mikey.
Mikey a lil bit different from yer zigzag is also a zigzag that I do that u might like 2 try its with yer needle and getting a loop 1 on either side in zigzag formation and the joining comes out with the seems and in the middle its crisscrossed and it is a very nice effect almost looks like an additional design 2 the work try and let me know if u like it???? enjoy!!!!!
I need help please!!! Your video is fantastic but I don’t know how the middle of 4 squares is to look like or how they join. It leaves a hole if 4 sides are joined. Please help me as I’m doing your zigzag stitch. Thank you
Our Spring Garden Stitch Along has the same join. I have provided you a link to it that will start the video at that moment. You will see what it's like to jump across the panels. Hopefully this helps. ruclips.net/video/JIWIPPhYcTE/видео.html
Thank you, phew, had a few disasters doing that!
I love all the projects and the left handed versions are awesome ! Is it great that you have instructions of left handed projects. Is there are a left handed version of this technique? Thanks !!!
Been sent to you by someone you taught to crochet
Thank you for trusting in my video Linda.
@@TheCrochetCrowd your most welcome I watch 2 off your video's this morning now working out how to slow them down so I can work at the some time
hi mikey I ❤ granny square
He mentions the afghan in the Roseanne show. Ever notice that on Big Bang Theory, Amy Farrah Fowler has the same afghan on her couch?
Hi I am looking for a pattern to crochet tear drop shaped motiffs into a blanket. the squares are easy, but these are very difficult. thank you so much.
would have been good if you did one more square for the zigzag stitch..
My first granny square project! I have made granny squares with a skirt in mind. I am at the point of putting them together. I keep going back to the drawing board. What method would you recommend that wouldn’t be too stiff, allowing for softness and closer to flat then raised? Thanks, Gloria
It would be really nice if you would show some blocks of each method with the matching thread just to show us what it actually looks like.
Thank you for this excellent tutorial. How do you join corners using invisible join? Thanks!
I know I'm super late but my theory on the whip stitch is that it's because it wraps around the strand like if you catch something with a whip.
That's probably a great thought.
Obrigada.
De nada. - You're Welcome.
I love the variety of joins. Thanks! I have an afghan my deceased mother and I was making but the center of the join of squares is a bit like a spider web. Mother was doing the outer color of the blocks and crocheting them together. I don't know how to do that type join, and instructions are lost, so unable to finish it for a gift to my daughter. That wasn't the original goal though. Why do you call the yarn "string"? You did that several times.
liked this project
thank you for the tutorial
Thanks a lot for the useful video!
I'm a beginner who just recently finished all her granny squares - now I need to join them. I'll pick one of these, but I have a question - do I stitch the squares one by one, cutting the yarn for each side, or can I stitch the whole length of a row of granny squares?
You can do a whole row at a time!
@@TheCrochetCrowd Amazing! Thank you!
Where did you bought that needle and how is it called? Looks very convieniant!
For the back loop stitch, if I have 3 chains in the corner which chain do I use at the beginning and ending stitch? Thanks
The middle one for each corner.
@@TheCrochetCrowd WOW!! thank you so much for the quick response. Appreciate it!
Great info! It would be nice if you separated the different methods so you can immediately find the one of most interest. It is nice to see all the different methods compared. Thanks
which one is the quickest?
Join as you go.
Whip stitch is a sewing term.
THANK YOU ,VERY HELPFUL :)
I have different colors of 3 round granny squares...how do I make the join to two different colors so it looks like they're butted up with no stitching showing?
I think there's a join as you go method but I've already made 50 different squares separate.
Whip stitch on the back loop only and use one of the colours from the joining only. It will be okay.
I'm using the zig zag, but unsure how to do the rows. It almost seems like you would join individual squares in one direction creating rows, then join all the rows together? That leaves so many tails to weave in. Is there a better way?
I have done squares for a blanket and some of my square are a little bigger than the others. How can I get them to match before I put them together?
I have done a shell stitch scarf in three colours and it is too wide and also slightly untidy at the edges because of the yarn being carried up on the colour change, so I have decided to double it and join it and turn it inside out at the end. What stitch would be the best to join the sides without showing the edges?
In your opinion what is the best one to use if you are using 2 different colors. All squares are same color but I am wanting to use a different color to attach. Also, I wish you would have show all the different ones at the end. In other words show the entire piece that you worked on so we can see all the different ones at one time to choose
Help i hav a load of tiny we granys all solid one collers cant get them puy together cos stiches ar being seen i hav red ones white one and green ones so using one coller of thread wont work now
of the 3 techniques, which one would you consider 'stronger'?
+Jane Wisneski
They all have pretty much the same "strength". I think it's more about the look you would like to achieve on your finished piece.
But how does it look the other way around? You didn’t show with the single crochet
Hi Mikey. Do you already have a tutorial on how to make a granny square? I looked around in your channel but don't see anything. If not, can you make one sometime? I tried to follow a tutorial from someone else on youtube but I juat cant get it. Thank you.
Enter "Granny Square" with quotes in my channel. It will pop up for you.
Sulaman kain perca
How do you join granny squares using the granny stitch?
You sound sick. Hope ur better now. Thanks for the video :)
is there a way to do this with corner to corner?
What kind of crazy needle do you have??