Learn How to Crochet these fun 2 Tone Solid Granny Squares! Using 2 colours of yarn, you can crochet fun triangles within a square to create some really funky patterns and illusions!

Watch the full step by step video tutorial below or alternatively, keep scrolling for the written pattern and full blanket layout :)

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FOR MY PERSONAL BLANKET:

I joined all my squares using the Tight Join As You Go Method.

This was a VERY overly complicated way of joining my squares!

It involved a lot of brain power, forward planning and concerntration - you may find it much easier crocheting or sewing your squares together AFTER you have made them; that way you can lay your blocks out and more easily “see” the pattern before joining them together.

If you wish to join your crochet squares AFTER you have made them, you can either sew them together or crochet them together

BLANKET LAYOUT

My blanket measures approximately 39 inches (99cm) wide by 52 inches (132cm) long

For my blanket, I used Hobbii Tweed Dreams in 24 different shades to create the illusion of light and dark diamond squares with a 5.5mm crochet hook.

The Hobbii Tweed Dreams yarn is aran weight - sold in 50g balls / 109 yards

I used 1 ball per colour for the main square - I then used an extra 2 balls of the shade Seagrass for the border.

Each square is 3 rounds

To create my blanket, I used 4 different squares per “block”

Each block is made up of 4 individual squares.

I have created image representations of the 4 squares along with their orientation when joined together to form a block of 4.

BLUE BLOCK

Hobbii Tweed Dreams Colour Names for BLUE BLOCK (shade number is in brackets)

Square 1: Emerald (26) & Seagrass (27)

Square 2: Dark Mint (08) & Irish Mint (28)

Square 3: Midnight Teal (09) & Misty Blue (04)

Square 4: Ultramarine (06) & Seaside Blue (07)

YELLOW BLOCK

Hobbii Tweed Dreams Colour Names for YELLOW BLOCK (shade number is in brackets)

Square 1: Cinnamon (20) & Golden Spices (11)

Square 2: Curry (22) & Sunshine (24)

Square 3: Chillies (12) & Powder Rouge (15)

Square 4: Rust (22) & Rosy Beach (02)

PINK BLOCK

Hobbii Tweed Dreams Colour Names for PINK BLOCK (shade number is in brackets)

Square 1: Pebbles (03) & Sea Salt (01)

Square 2: Pink Punch (13) & Raspberry Jam (16)

Square 3: Frozen Berries (14) & Heather Meadow (17)

Square 4: Old Rose (18) & Mocha (19)

I used the following “block” sequence:

BLUE BLOCK - YELLOW BLOCK - PINK BLOCK

IN TOTAL YOU WILL NEED 35 “BLOCKS” made up of 140 individual squares

The first 2 rows consists of 20 squares forming 5 “blocks”:

BLUE BLOCK - YELLOW BLOCK - PINK BLOCK then repeat BLUE BLOCK - YELLOW BLOCK

The next 2 rows of “blocks” starts with PINK BLOCK then resumes BLUE - YELLOW - PINK and ends on BLUE

Each “block” shifts over one for each subsquent set of rows

Here is the full layout of the entire blanket

TWO TONE SQUARE WRITTEN PATTERN

USA STITCH TERMS

Hook Size(s): according to your yarn

Abbreviations:

·       Ch = Chain

·       Ch sp = Chain space

·       DC = Double crochet

·       Rep = Repeat

·       St = Stitch

Pattern:

Make a magic ring or ch 4 and sl st to join.

Row 1:

Ch 3 and into the ring, make 2 DC, ch 2, 3 DC, ch 1 and attach the second colour.

Ch 1 and into the ring, make 3 DC, ch 2, 3 DC, ch 2 and sl st to join.

Row 2:

Turn and sl st into the ch sp. Ch 2 and make 1 DC in the same space. Make 1 DC in each st across. In the corner ch sp, make (2 DC, ch 2, 2 DC).

Make 1 DC in each st across. In the corner ch sp, make 2 DC, ch 1 and switch to the next colour. Ch 1 and make 2 DC in the same space. Make 1 DC in each st across.

In the corner ch sp, make (2 DC, ch 2, 2 DC). Make 1 DC in each st across. In the last corner ch sp, make 2 DC, ch 2 and sl st to join.

Row 3:

Rep row 2. When you’ve reached your desired size, fasten off and cut the yarn.

BORDER

For my border, I used 2 balls of Seagrass (27)

USA STITCH TERMS:

Row One was a single crochet round - single crochet into the top of every double crochet along the sides of the squares

single crochet decrease (single crochet 2 together) over the chain space on the sides where the squares meet

[single crochet, chain 2, single crochet] into the corner spaces

Rows 2, 3 & 4 were simply half double crochet rounds - half double crochet into the top of every stitch around and work [half double crochet, chain 2, half double crochet] into the corner spaces

I then finished with a round of single crochet crab stitch.

Happy Crocheting!

Robin