How to Crochet the Join As You Go (JAYG) Method | Granny Square Joining
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Learn how to do the super simple "Join As You Go" Method - great for beginners and is the easiest and most secure way to join your crochet squares. This method is PERFECT for joining granny squares of differing colours or as a way to save you having stacks of grannies hanging around - with this method you literally join "as you go" which means you add a new square to your blanket or project as you finish it.
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📌 Looking for more of a challenge or is your border yarn for your squares all the same colour? Why not try the Continuous Join As You Go Method which joins all your squares in one go using just one strand of yarn with only 2 ends to weave in for your entire project! See the video here: bit.ly/2pEwDtH
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🕘 TIMESTAMPS - jump to the section you need immediately!
0:00 How to Crochet the Join As You Go Technique
7:09 Dealing with corners
9:30 Dealing with inside corners
🧶 Yarn details
Scheepjes Softfun Yarn (4mm Hook)
Yarn Shades and numbers:
White (2412)
Light Yellow (2496)
Dark Yellow (2610)
Light Grey (2530)
Dark Grey (2510)
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How much yarn will I need? This is a very tricky question to answer as there are so many variables! How much yarn you need will depend on which yarn you choose, the thickness of that yarn, your tension and how large you want your finished project to be. I suggest making a small sample first so you can gauge how much yarn you'll need. If making a crochet square, you can weigh your finished square to work out how much yarn it used!
How many squares do I need for a blanket? That all depends on the size of the square you are making and how big you want your finished blanket to be! I always advise making one square first then measuring the size of it. From there you can work out how many squares you will need to get the blanket size you want 😀
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It looked so complicated at first but it really isn’t! Thanks for taking the time to make helpful videos such as this one. You explain everything so well, it’s a pleasure to watch and learn from you. THANKS!
I just learned to crochet six months ago, and made my first granny square last week. Your tutorial is so good that I understand exactly what you are doing in this join as you go technique straight away! Thank you!
You’re very welcome Lynn!😃
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You have made joining 54 squares so much easier and only 2 tails to weave in. I'll never shy away from squares again.
This tutorial is brilliant. By far, it's the best I've seen when it comes to join as you go. Thank you!
This video is an amazing help to me. Stitch patterns still make my brain hurt, so seeing this done hands-on makes me realize how simple it really is. And the pace of the video was absolutely perfect, slow enough for me to follow along, but not so slow it felt tedious and I ended up trying to skip around. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Awh, you’re so welcome! I’m glad the video helped, you can definitely do this.😃
Unbelievable I have watched like ten of these and yours was by far the best. A lot of people do the chain two in the middles. I do chain one and you explained perfectly how to go about joining with this method. My joining finally looks ok! I could tell I was doing something wrong. Just couldn't see where I was going wrong. 💕 Huge thanks!!
Thank you so much for this tutorial video! Your voice is clear and calming, the instructions are crystal clear as you perfrom them. Now I'm not going to shy away from making a granny square blanket and just join as I go!
Thank you for this tutorial. I didn't think I'd be using it because I'm not a fan of granny squares, but turns out I can. I'm making grocery bags that have straight sides and your video inspired me to join the sides as I go. ❤
This one is great for when you want different coloured final borders! 😍
Thank you! I have done granny squares for over 30 years. Joining as you go helps so much! Less ends to weave in too.
You’re welcome Heidi!😃🥰
This is certainly the best and neatest join as you go i have seen, thank you
Thank you Donna, I’m glad it helps!😃🧶
wished i knew about that 30 years ago. great video. thanks!
I’m glad it helps! 😃🧶
Thank you so much for this video! I’m too lazy to get out a needle to attach my squares and I didn’t want to use the single crochet method since my squares are different colours. This method works perfectly!
Mind blown, I saw this video a while back when it was released but never had to join two grannies. Wow, you answered I had a problem with ty :.)
You’re so welcome!😃🧶
You put this bideo out 5 years ago. I just fame across this and it would have saved me many knots and having to hid the yarn ends. Life will be so much easier and less frustrating. Thank uou. Thank you. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Ah no but I am glad you've seen it now and that it helps.😀🧶
Thank you! You helped me finish a blanket. JAYG was included in the pattern, but I need to see things done in order to understand. Your video was very helpful! Really not that hard once I got the hang of it!
You’re so welcome Patricia, I’m so pleased it helped you.😃🧶
how perfect! i have 80 squares to connect for a blanket for my boyfriend and was absolutely dreading connecting all of them. i’ve finished all the squares already but oh well, what’s a thicker white border around them lol. thank you so much for the clear and concise tutorial, super nice to have something not made only for beginners!
Once it is all together, it will look great!😃
thank you so much for your joining tutorial! it's just what i was looking for, after seeing a finished granny square afghan without instructions. your method looks better and will be MUCH easier than sewing all those squares together. i'd given up on making granny square afghans, because i really did not like the sewing - now i'm going to make several! thank you!
Amazing!
Just made granny square patterns SO MUCH more bearable! Thank you!
Yay, I’m glad it helps.😃🧶
Thaaaank you sooo much , I was getting frustrated with my work but with your very well guidance I am happy to do this ! 😃
Thank you for doing this video! It is so clear on how to join them . Appreciate you immensely 😳💕
Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is a wonderful tutorial. Joining granny squares has always been a chore. I really enjoy making granny squares but not so much joining. I have certainly tried many different methods. I really like this method very much.
Brilliant, concise, slow and explained so beautifully.
I have started a Popcorn Square Blanket. I will be joining in this manner.
Love it. Thank You .
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Interesting way to join granny’s. Thanks for making my life easier bcuz I hate joining granny squares. Thanks much again. Do have a Merry Christmas !!!
Wonderful explanation! Thank you! 😍
I love your tutorials! By following your very good tutorials I’m actually able to crochet and it looks good! Thanks Robin.
Thank you so much Vee, I’m glad they help.😃🧶
Thank you for the awesome tutorial
Love this method! Will try one day! Thanks Blue! HI Steve and all the kitties 😸 😀 😊
Yay! Let me now you find it.😃🥰
Excellent video - you are such a good teacher. Thank you for sharing
Thank you so much Clare! 🥰
Thank u sooo much for this! finally a joining method that isn't confusing!
You’re so welcome, I’m glad it helps!😃
Wonderful tutorial! Your explanations are excellent, and what a wonderful technique. Thank you so much❤️
Thank you so much! 🥰🧶
Clear explanation. High quality video. Very helpful. Thanks for sharing ❤
Thank you so much!🥰🤗
Thanks for explaining
Amazing thanks for sharing
Very cleat guidance, Thankyou.
Hello Robin. Thanks for ALL your video's.
I wish you a great christmas and a happy New year.
The verry best for 2020!!
Greetings from karin from the Netherlands 🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅
This has been so helpful! Answered all my questions!! Thank you!
You’re so welcome Nancy!😃🧶
I absolutely love your tutorials! You’re such an amazing teacher
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for the tutorial!
Thank you Mihaela!🧶
Well taught. Thank You.
Thank you Kim! 😃🧶
Thankyou for sharing
Súper genial esta unión me encantó🤩👏👏👏
Gracias Gladys! 🥰🤗
Thanks for very good tutorial...
Thank you Kiran.🥰🤗
I love your tutorials ❤
Thank you so much!🥰🤗
Brilliant help..
Thank you Pauline!🤗
This tutorial was absolutely perfect to my brain to understand!! I've only made 1 "granny square" type blanket and you made all the squares and then crocheted them together at the end. I'm curious with this method - do you block your squares? If so - when? Does it matter? I am definitely going to try this granny square and see how far I get. Thank you for the great tutorial!
thanks
Wow very easy joining method. TY for sharing this
Hi, would this method still work if I usually ch 2 in my corners instead of 3 and have no ch spaces between my clusters? Thanks.
Thank you!!! I absolutely hate joining granny squares and tucking in all loose strings.
I am new to this way of joining and although it looks neat, I'm wondering if the fairly loose stitches on the back side of the work are normal?
Wow thanks Robin. I had been taught wrong. I kept wondering why my squares were wonkie. Ugh! I didn't know why. And I would pull on them try to reposition them. And I thought somethings not right but I didn't know what. Gosh! Everyone does things different. Even making the squares. I was taught granny cluster chain 1 then just to next side or make corner where ever you were at. But it should be cluster, chain 3 and chain 1 in-between sides? Goodness. I shore enjoy learning from you. I am self taught from books and y tube. I really love it but I want to be doing it right and understand why I'm doing what I'm doing and when, where. Ect. 😆
Yes you've got it! You chain 1 on the sides and in the corners, chain 3 :) it gives a more pronounced corner shape which you can easily spot for the next rounds.
Once you have the basics down you can alter your square to your preferences (often yarn thickness and tension plays a part in how your squares look ) so if you find they are too baggy, you can eliminate the chain 1 on the sides, or some people prefer to chain 2 in the corners - you can have a play about with how you do your squares; no set right or wrong answer as long as you end up with a square at the end! 😀
Please, if you chain 2 in the corners do you join with chain 1, slip, slip, chain 1, or do you do chain 1 slip 1 then go into the dcs for the other side of the corner?
Love your tutorials they’re so easy to follow. Only been crocheting for 2 months so need s bit of advice. If I use this method how do I block the granny squares or do I do it a bit at a time or the whole piece at the end? Trying to make a chair arm cover
I have to say that your videos are amazing. I've only been crocheting for about a year, but your cute flower keychain video is what really got me into it. I was following a pattern for a sweater, and they call for a ch 2 corner space. How would I go about joining the corners? Would I still use the same method as a ch 3 space or would I have to leave something out?
Acabo de darme cuenta, que yo las unos al revés.
Gracias por la explicación.
Saludos.
This is how I join mty mini granny squares 🤗
Thank you for clear instructions, very easy to understand you. Thank you. May I ask what kind of yarn you are using?
The yarn is Scheepjes Softfun - it's a cotton blend I think :-)
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Hello:). Silly question lol! Would this work with squares that have double crochets in every stitch? In other words not a granny square? Hope that makes sense?
Thank you for this tutorial. Very easy. I can not find your tutorial on the flat border. I use a blue 4 x 8 insulation board for my layout. Stand it up and pin squares until you like the layout. When finished I slide the board behind my China hutch out if the way until the next time. 😊
Hi Lee, you're welcome! Here is the tutorial for the border: ruclips.net/video/f3dle9LD4pE/видео.html 😀🧶
Thanks for info. Found your tutorial on flat border. I needed that. 😁
No problem!x
Very good teaching video. Thank you.
Love this method made joining my squares together so quick and easy. I'd like to add a scallop border any ideas how to get the scallop border across the joins please? Ive followed your scallop border video but struggling to get it to look right across the joins
Ah, OK so I'd suggest you follow this video for one round to work over the joins and then the scalloped border should be easier 😀 ruclips.net/video/dydEIY0rwrk/видео.html
Hi - I have done a blanket like this (different colour) - now I have a large blanket and the stitch is getting awful looking - stretched etc. Is there a way I can border it (I need to make it bigger) and would like to do the final border in shell but am looking for another stitch to do a few rounds without it looking stretched and awful ! Thanks. LOVE your tutorials. Caroline
If you are chaining 2 instead of three? Which chain would you slip stich? The first or second?
Thank you so much for sharing this video! I am making my first granny square blanket and was worried about connecting them. Can you explain what you mean at the end of the video by leaving the corner hanging until you have one to connect it to diagonally, if you are in the middle of the blanket? Wouldn’t you just end up having to diagonals that need to be connecting to one another with both of them left hanging? Does that make sense? 🤔🤨
Also I love the idea of making one continuous join as you go, but I’m worried I will run out of One colour of the yarn and not find it in the store again! Any recommendations on how to estimate how much I need?
Would you join on the diagonal when doing a sweater not a blanket?
Personally yes but there are no set rules! You don't have to 😀
May I ask what hook you’re using? The metal part looks longer than on my Clover Amour hooks.
Just a standard Clover Amour! :-)
Hello! What should I do if my granny square has 2 chains for the corners? Then I should attach them the same way as you did? I mean ch 1, slip stitch then ch 1? Or I just have to skip something there? I hope it makes sense, and thank you for the tutorial! I am trying to make a granny square vest❤😊
And I'd like to make a sc border around the vest. It is ok, if I make a sc into every dc and the at the corners, where they are joined, I make 1-1 into each corner? And thank you again!❤😊
You say in the very beginning on the second granny squares to go ahead and complete the 3 sides but then as you're describing what to do you mention that 2 sides only are to be completed. Can you please confirm if it's 3 sides or 2 that have to be completed? Many thanks.
please can you tell me what yarn you are using please. 🌹
I’d be interested to know this too please. Love the yarn.
do you go back and stitch the seems together, it looks like there are spaces along the seem line
No, the seam is totally secure - the gaps match the gaps in the squares themselves 😀
Where can I find the directions for the cats o
In a row. Across. Looks like cats and their paws thank you
So when you get to that point you just finish your round as normal and leave the corner undone
Would this work with turning your squares to be diamonds and with using triangles on the edges to fill the space?
Yes absolutely!
This us a nice method, but I think I would prefer your other join method
Hello robyn. Thank you for the wonderful tutorials Forgive the stupid question but I'm blind and cannot see. When you mean diagonal which corner do you join in the next row is it the second corner of the first square or the first corner of the second square? Thank you.
The first corner of the second square 🙂
No need to apologise! The only stupid question is the one not asked! Xx
@@HookedbyRobin Thank you so it's from the first corner of the second square towards the outer edge of the first square? Thank you x
Yep! You got it! X
I'm a newbie, I have notice not all my squares are the same size. I made myself a tension ring for my finger, so I'm getting better, but is there a way to join so it's not so noticeable?
The flat braid join is very forgiving when it comes to squares of varying sizes / tension! ruclips.net/video/J-j7iWBgTz0/видео.html 😀
What does the backside look like?
Hi Robin, please help, i understand what you mean when you say that you leave the corner in the middle of the work hanging for the following square to join BUT when you approach that corner that you will leave hanging do you after the slip stitch that you made before the corner make an single crotchet and then proceed to the the corner or after slip stitch just jump to making your corner, hope you understand. Thank you. 🙂
I think I understand your question - so slip stitch before the corner, then jump straight into the corner but don't join the ch3 part :-)
@@HookedbyRobin Great, that's what i wanted to know. Thank you!!!! Love your tutorials.
Bit confused. Do I crochet the border on two sides of each square before joining?
Hi Shez, this will help😀: ruclips.net/video/f3dle9LD4pE/видео.html
When I join my squares there is too big a space. What am I doing wrong
So, all the squares I completed are obsolete? 😩 I don’t recall being taught in the previous video that we won’t be using full squares. I’ve made so many squares believing I could easily connect them later 😒
This will help 🤗: ruclips.net/video/6z8cpynq_Bs/видео.htmlsi=d8SE0rmpdF_YY6DR
Is there any need to block the square?
I have a video about blocking here: ruclips.net/video/v0Hfu0byjxs/видео.html 😃
what if you have different sized squares?
For mix matched sizing I'd recommend this method for joining as it's very forgiving :D ruclips.net/video/J-j7iWBgTz0/видео.html
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I literally have some sort of mental block when it comes to joining squares I have 150 squares sitting here waiting for me to work through this dead lock of my brain...feeling discouraged
Which yarn did you use?
Why are you using the American crochet terms they are treble crochets in the UK ? It makes it more confusing
Because I learnt using American terminology so it's my first language :-)
@@HookedbyRobin Oh it's just that as you had an English accent I thought it was strange I follow English or I would get a bit confused 😂
thanks
Hi, would this method still work if I usually ch 2 in my corners instead of 3 and have no ch spaces between my clusters? Thanks.