How to Crochet a Large Sunburst Granny Square

This video goes over the basics of crocheting a large multi-coloured sunburst granny square. In this tutorial you will learn a few tips I use to make sure there is no pulling or gaping when joining your rounds. I will also show you how to add an extra round to your sunburst granny to make it a little larger and more open looking. It makes a beautiful large-sized multi-coloured granny square.
Cheers!
L,
M.
ps. in the fourth round I use an extra dc in the bobble stitch followed by 3 chains between. Hope this helps!
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[@shawtygotlo1]

1:15 - Round 1 (dc) 4:40 - Round 2 (puff stitch) 9:56 - Round 3 (smaller cluster stitch) 15:20 - Round 4 (larger cluster stitch) 22:29 - Round 5 (border)

[@SumayyaAfreen-k9f]

What is 4: 40 I didn't get u

[@amnamahmood5207]

​@@SumayyaAfreen-k9f Huh ?

[@Julz99907]

I love this square and you are the best teacher ever. I am super happy I found you.

[@taryn__]

intro: 0:00 round 1: 1:38 round 2: 5:40 round 3: 10:08 round 4: 16:00 round 5: 22:38 these are mainly for me as I come back haha, helpful tips start just before each timestamp! thank you so much for this tutorial, it's great :)

[@nautikrallcrochet]

This is awesome!! ♥️

[@ioanamanea5514]

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[@rosalynblocker541]

Love the way you finish your work as you go👍🏾. Great lesson. Please do more,

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Thanks!! I will! Glad it was helpful 🥰

[@sharonianni4700]

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[@sharonianni4700]

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[@sharonianni4700]

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[@mina-yu4hn]

love this stitch. you are an excellent teacher. i am going to make squares to make a sweater then a blanket. god bless

[@mariawilliams9123]

Love your tutorial, I love the way you weaved the ends. I learned a lot. Thank you so much👍

[@migapiga]

Did a magic circle with 16 dc instead of what you did and it worked fine too. :)

[@amabbie6]

Thank you for this bc I was just about to ask if I can do a magic circle instead 🙌😅

[@daverbaortiz3401]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I just finished my first sunburst granny square, I’m a beginner and it was easy to follow. It also helped that I was able to put my playback speed at 0.5x and it’s nice and slow and it gave me time to catch up.

[@maryconlon7858]

I am picking up skills that I haven't used for at least 2 decades. I am following this method, much bigger square and looks so pretty. Thank you for your lovely tutorial.

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Glad you enjoyed it Mary! Happy crocheting ☺️

[@estherklitton390]

Your sunburst squares patterns are beautiful! And I like your hidden chains in the squares make them neat and lovely! I'm working with your patterns! Lovely!

[@MoonlitBrenya]

I'm so glad I found you! I'm a granny square nut. I'm a newbie crocheter (can I call myself a hooker? lmao, anyway...). I really didn't like the spaces the other connecting methods left me with. But you've shown me how to make smooth connections and now they look cohesive. This makes my nit-picky little heart so happy! I've subbed to your channel and since you don't have a whole page full of videos, I can happily just add them all to my crochet playlist, lol. Cheers, thank you so much!

[@nautikrallcrochet]

🤣 love it! You’re welcome!! Happy crocheting 💕

[@Theguys1]

Just got the pattern for “ Island Time” square. Great to support my fellow Canadian neighbour from Toronto.

[@sandragale8520]

I have slowly but surely bought every one of her patterns! Absolutely love her work!!

[@sandrafoxi84]

I really love the way you are teaching. I saw your pattern on your Instagram and then ended up here to see the instructions for the pattern! ❤ Thanks so much!

[@catherinefletcher6874]

I just purchase 4 Halloween colors for a 36 hour 4 day car ride and I am going to make your blanket for a new Spooky Sun Burst blanket. I am so greatful for the extra videos with how to attach them and the pom pom edge. Hopefully 36 hours I will be done and ready for Halloween. Thank you for your time and instructions. I wanted you to know people still really use your videos.

[@Sharonb777]

So I've watched others make different Starbursts but I'm really loving your it's so full and not so many different stitches love the colours as well.

[@gabrielapino6757]

Thank you so much !! 😘 this is the first time I finally do a well-done granny square 🥰 I have to say I'm just learning english and I understood everything you said (unlike many other crochet tutorials 😬) I'll be doing a blanket with these granny and I'll show you when I ended it :) xoxo

[@nautikrallcrochet]

This is awesome!! I’m glad you could understand everything. Can’t wait to see your finished piece! Happy crocheting!

[@karynpalaone4117]

Hi, show the photo when you finish.

[@rickandjanejorgenson1330]

Your patterns are gorgeous, and your tutorials are clear and easy to follow!

[@kristinewhritenour1752]

Great tutorials ! You made this so easy to follow ! I am so happy I found you . Beautiful granny square.

[@lisal9633]

I love love love this video, your instructions are very clear. Thank you very much for making this tutorial

[@5877user]

Learning the hard way, lol, I now always count twice at the end of a round to make sure I still have 16.😊 For this pattern, I literally wrote it out highlighting the round number because if I’m distracted or start thinking of something else, I tend to mess up especially between rounds 2 and 3. So for me, I literally put some kind of marker on the round that I’m currently working on. I use my tv remote like a ruler and place it on the written instructions as to what round I’m doing.

[@canolli2944]

You have no idea how good and carefully precise you are. I’m a grandma I made my first sunflower crochet squares because of your well organized accurate tutorials and used your video. Right now I’m in middle of making a lacy long skirt using very large Willow squares (7 rows) and I’m going to incorporate this flower design by you along with it. Only trouble I’m having is how to put the skirt together. I’ve watched countless videos all so badly explained , are you experienced in this area?? Do I make one wide row of squares and then fold over to stitch (seam in back) or do I make two pieces and sew together it then? I’m not sure which works better with squares without it looking ‘bumpy’ on the sides . Any suggestions are greatly appreciated TIA!

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Normally I would do a JAYG for wearables-but if you’ve already made squares out of them I would seam with mattress stitch (sewing). It’ll be invisible and leave you with flat seams 🥰

[@esther1659]

this is so helpful!!! your videos are wonderful - I hope you keep posting more!!!

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it ☺️

[@Justdessertsforme]

Fabulous tutorial...very easy to follow you. I can't wait for more !

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Thank you so much! Happy crocheting 🥰🧶

[@susanjackson1907]

Thank You for Your Fabulous video for Your Gorgeous Sunburst Granny Square! Thank you for sharing your inspiration and creativity! Kind Regards!

[@danilrbb]

THANK YOU!!! Before your video and the JAYG video for the sunburst blanket, I was petrified to try a blanket. I’m now currently following your 2 videos to make my son and my future daughter-in-law that blanket in their wedding colors; burgundy and white, for their wedding in a month. I may already regret learning this as my daughter now wants a wave blanket with baby sea turtles and shells. 😳😂

[@deborahm4484]

Hi I love how you showed this stitch you made it so understandable.gorgeous square..love your channel.💝💝💝

[@brucewright5166]

You make it look so easy, great instruction

[@karinkburns]

Thanks for this. I'm new back to crochet as I'm a knitter but loving your tutorials. Thanks for adding this extra round for less circles to crochet. My only thing I'd do different is an invisible join at the end of some of the rounds to avoid the knot. Oh and after I was on my last round of your other sunburst pattern I only had 15 repeats.....erghhhhh. Next time I will count twice or three times. Thanks again. ;-)

[@shelleymshay]

This is beautiful and so easy to follow the tutorial, thank you.

[@nautikrallcrochet]

You’re very welcome! Happy crocheting!

[@thiscraftyangie]

This is beautiful! I just saw this on facebook where I think someone posted it! I looked it up on KZbin! Thanks so so pretty 😍 ❤❤

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Thank you so much ☺️

[@marydyer5521]

Great tutorial & useful tips! Thank you! Love it ❤

[@MzCR73]

I love this tutorial, this square, and the speed you go is perfect 👌. Love, love, love it. Thank you!

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Thanks!! I’m so glad you love it!! Happy crocheting 🥰

[@8SmileyLady]

I came ' over' from Linda's (Just a Crochet Sister) channel. I'm a new subscriber from Maine. This is a pretty square.

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Welcome!! Glad you like it! Happy crocheting 🥰

[@freyalanis]

Excelente tutorial! Acabo de aprender a hacerlo con tu video, muchas gracias!

[@veronikapospisilova1877]

thank you so much. i made my first big blanket with your help!

[@nannybluebelle8643]

Love this and the colours you should do more videos if you can as you are a good teacher x

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Thank you so much!! I’m trying to get more up. Just not enough time to do it all 😅 stay tuned!

[@brendahelmer9956]

Love this so beautiful I love to watch you crochet

[@jindaratwhichukornmanont7754]

Thank you very much for tutoring and I like your teaching tutoring every Clips ❤❤ you’re very nice for teaching, Take Good Care ❤❤

[@rjdiary03]

Thank you so much 💓 I love ur tutorials

[@sharondonovan1403]

Good learn like the granny squares...thanks for turtorial

[@cassandragraham4419]

Thanks for the tutorial it’s one of my favorites. Could you tell me how to do a round 5-6 to make it larger then the square round. Thanks for helping. Truly appreciated it

[@beverlykeippel8534]

Love itt ! I would never put those colors. But i like them

[@louisespejewski7179]

Love it! I am a tight crocheter as well. I'm using a 6mm hook, and my square is still curling. Ugh!!! It measures 6". I wanted to make a cardigan, but my back measures 19". If I use 3 squares for the back panel, it will be too small, but 4 squares would be too big. How could I add more rounds to make the square bigger so I'd only have to use 3 squares? Thank you!

[@bgurri]

Wow this is what I’ve been waiting for ❤

[@sangitapai]

I made this 2 years back using 4mm hook and it turned great

[@charmainetorre8271]

This is lovely. Tysm for sharing

[@paulinenelson6634]

He love the color and your in your sunburst I do have a let of yarn and I work at Walmart I you small amount each time is there anyway you no how much yard you have because I could take them to work with me and crochet on my lunch time thank you

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Hi Pauline! I do have the amounts of each round-but it won’t help you much because it’s in a different weight/fiber of yarn. There is an easy way to figure it out though if you have some spare time at home…. Grab a kitchen scale and weigh your work! Do each round and before starting the next weigh it (in grams) before adding the next. This will give you an idea how much you need to bring. Generally speaking when I work with a DK weight merino yarn-the 5 rounds in this video weighs about 12g. If your yarn is 231yds/100g then that works out to be (12g x 2.31yds)= 28yds. It’ll be different for worsted weight but the method is the same! You don’t even need to convert to yds. Just use your grams. It’s a great way to use up all those scraps too! Best, M

[@franceengeorge1142]

Even following your updated instructions, the Lg Sunburst Granny Square still curls up - and I am a very loose crocheter (although lefty). Any further suggestions?

[@jennyb975]

Thanks for this. It is so helpful.

[@vlayday]

Hello to you! This is such a beautiful project. But now that I’m almost done with all the squares, do you have a video tutorial on how to assemble the blanket? Thank you 🙏🏽

[@briannacarte848]

When you get to the end and realize you can’t make a square because you messed up somewhere so now you either have a triangle or an uneven square

[@BionicGinger]

My mom’s Xmas present last year was a trapezoidal blanket 😂 it still keeps her legs warm! 🤷‍♀️

[@melp1926]

Yup. Somehow I've got some with 18 puffs in the end, 17 puffs in the end, or 16 (correct amount) 😐 so irritating. I'm gonna make them into a blanket anyway and see what happens. The unevenness of the squares aren't too noticeable right now. We'll see when they're all together 🫠

[@leesaglazier2289]

@@melp1926I’ve done this but I do an increase then it has the right amount:)

[@dontwakemeup470]

Every time

[@waadal.shahrany7046]

Thank you so much. it was so easy to follow 😍✨ but what if I want it to be even larger, how should I do it?

[@kassondrahutchison2027]

I read somewhere that you could do the same thing you did in round 3 and 4,by just adding one every time but they also said that since the last row of this one is so spaced out, it wouldn't look right. I'm still practicing but just wanted to share what I've read

[@waadal.shahrany7046]

Thank you so much 🙏🏼🤍

[@ladybugonapug-jamie2596]

Eek, so thrilled you have this video! I bought your Baby Sunburst pattern when you released it and have struggled...seeing it demonstrated, even how you do the tail ends, is so insanely helpful! I'm used to amigurumi but your blankets swayed me to attempt this and I'm not giving up 😂🙏🏻 Thanks again!

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Glad it’s been helpful!! Happy crocheting ❤️

[@hussahalmarfoi5579]

Thank u so much i really like ur tutorial and iv done one square!!

[@takingx3143]

Thank you very much! I have been looking for a textbook on such knitting for a long time, where there are 5 colors. I want to knit a bag of grandma's squares. And it will be the color of the Turkish eye 🧿 There are 4 colors in it, but I want to add beige. There are also Russian subtitles, and I'm from Russia. Thanks❤❤❤❤

[@nikefred1]

Thank you for this very clear and easy to follow tutorial! I am teaching myself to crochet and have been watching many different tutorials and I find that this one appeals to me the most! Do you perhaps also have a tutorial to make a large retro daisy square? I am wanting to make 2 blankets for 2 young girls - the sunburst one will be the 6 year old the retro one will be for the 11 year old! with regards from pennypaterson9 (in South Africa)

[@charmainetorre8271]

How many squares like these would it take to be a bed cover (top only) for a queen size bed? Ty.❤❤

[@rosemariewest472]

I really love your large Sunburst granny squares! I am going to make your blanket, I am using different colors that my daughter wanted. I really love all your colors. I’ll have to make one for myself when I’m finished lol. How did you determine the color combinations. Is there a strategy that makes it easier.? Thanks for your wonderful tutorials 😊

[@AshleyAnessa]

This is very beautiful. Somehow though, on the third side, I didn't have a space to put my last double crochet before the corner stitches. I made it work, but I don't know where I went wrong because I followed the video...🤔

[@lindajustacrochetsister4659]

Love it 😀, you need to make a Playlist for Subscribers and put all your videos in it this will help with your watch hrs. Just saying 😘

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Thank you for the tip!! I had nooooo idea! I just put one together :)

[@lindajustacrochetsister4659]

@@nautikrallcrochet great I just made a video showing the yarn I am going to use to make your project will show when I finish thanks honey 😘

[@nautikrallcrochet]

@@lindajustacrochetsister4659 cannot wait to see it! Those colours are gorgeous!

[@neetachouhan5784]

OMG VERY BEAUTIFUL 😍

[@amabbie6]

When you wet block or dry ock the granny squares? Once completed with the join and border, should the blanket be washed and dryed for true size?

[@SarahCraft-z7b]

Hi! What kind of border or join as you go for this large square?

[@jphares52]

QUESTION??? What if you wanted to make more than 4 rounds of bauble stitches? Would you have to add more bauble stitches to each round to keep it from curling or make the bauble larger like in the 4th row? I want to make a large center sunflower for a baby blanket. It will have at least 10 rows of brown and double that of yellow then I'd make it into a square. I'm wondering if there is a mathematical formula to adding baubles so it will not curl up. Thank you for this tutorial. It made me think of the sunflower baby blanket.

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Hi, yes you need to make the bobble/cluster stitch larger but you also need to add more chains between them. When you go to square off he round-you’ll need more than 3 dc sts-you’ll need 4 or 5 sts between the bobbles depending on how many rounds you add.

[@tracydean3678]

Sooo pretty ! I really like how you pull it together and figured out the curl! Your honesty is appreciated!

[@bargan5547]

Great tutorial - thank you. BUT I HAVE A QUESTION: I want to make the square border surrounding the sunburst more than one row deep. Can you (or anyone) tell me the stitches for an extra 2-4 more rows/square borders? Thank you in advance.

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Good question!! Your next round would be a regular granny square. No special stitches! Just continue on making regular granny square (3 dc clusters) in each space and (3dc, ch 3, 3dc) in your corners. You can do this infinitely until your square is as big as you’d like ♥️

[@Shari_A._]

I want to do two more colors, before turning it into a square, would I just continue to add a double crochet, and an extra chain in between, when I add the new color? My niece wants a granny square purse.. heh And thank you so much for this tutorial. It's wonderful. I like it much better than the basic granny square.

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Hi! It doesn't always work out that way--you can try but sometimes it curls too much once you get more rounds on it--best bet is to try but then add more dc stitches in eaceh ch space when you go to turn it into a square. Best of luck!

[@Shari_A._]

@@nautikrallcrochet Thank you very much. I appreciate you taking the time to answer. Hopefully, I can work something out.

[@sabbya.8112]

Thank you. Q. If i would like to make a granny sunburst blanket double size with aran yarn . Each ball being approx 200m . Is 1kg yarn main border colour and 8 different balls for the centres enough?

[@nautikrallcrochet]

I don’t think so…I usually do 10 colours of 100g skeins with about 6-8, a 100g skeins to join and it’ll make a throw sized blanket…roughly 40ish”x 50ish”.

[@nautikrallcrochet]

I would check out my website…there are a few blankets on there (free patterns) that you can see for reference. Might give you a better idea how far yarn would go.,, This is a good place to start: www.nautikrallcrochet.com/blog-freepatterns/island-time-blanket-pattern

[@janet3459]

Thank you for a lovely tutorial, very easy to follow. How would you join these squares together?

[@sovannas]

Thank you for making this so simple to follow! I was wondering if you knew how to make this into a triangle (half square).

[@nautikrallcrochet]

You’re so very welcome! I’m glad you find it useful. I have never tried to make a half square!!!-that is definitely something I will add to my looooong list of to-dos! Thank you for the suggestion!

[@carmendriggs1965]

I love this but my tension must be off as my circles pucker inwards. I was closing my circle and that made my dc stitches very tight. Maybe that’s why?

[@debbiegsyarnylove8424]

Try a larger hook?!

[@kinderjojomojo]

If I were to continue the rounds, at what point do you add stitches (clusters) ? How do you know when to add them?

[@gloriabailey9861]

Love how do automatic uou make this loo tslk Snd count sll in one never missing a stitch thank you

[@Whosyourgrannycreations]

Your squares are beautiful and easy to follow along with!! Thank you ❤ I’m wondering about yarn…which do you use for your videos?

[@clbraz78]

This is beautiful! Is there a way to continue to pattern into a large sunburst blanket? I’m not good at altering patterns. Has anyone tried? I would love to make one huge one for my daughter.

[@amandamason6211]

Ty so much for a great tutorial x

[@beverlykeippel8534]

Could you speak a little louder for those of us with poor. Hearing thank you love your work

[@laurenholsted7418]

can you make sunburst granny squares as big as you want or as many rounds as you want or can you only do this as the max size?

[@kkitao217]

I haven’t done it with this pattern yet, but I’ve done it with other granny square type patterns. I don’t know why it wouldn’t work. I plan to try it.

[@silvana5532]

Would it look OK if I were to make a 3rd round of the double crochet pedals.

[@charmainetorre8271]

How do u put them together?

[@tabithagollihugh9287]

You are so fast with your hook! It’s mesmerizing to watch

[@amerakhan8034]

Excellent explanation

[@Valerie98nf]

thankyou i needed this!

[@nautikrallcrochet]

All the best! Happy crocheting 🥰

[@barnalisattic4449]

Beautiful ❤

[@kmotsch1]

Am I able to add another border on the end of that last round your did and if yes how would I do that? All the same length? And what length?

[@SumayyaAfreen-k9f]

Thanq u soo much atleast i got similar to square but lastly in corner after triple i got 3 half double crochet in 2 rows and 4 half double crochet in 2 rows 😅why this happen i didn't got same ..

[@bellegatdula7296]

Can use sunbrust granny square for top maybe also for summer top?

[@knitpurlsquirrelwithgrannydee]

Pretty! Thanks!

[@HelloKittyExists321]

This is such a nice version of a popular pattern, thanks for the tutorial! How big was your finished square?

[@sierraschaffer613]

Hi, when using the retro stripe yarn, do you work and the center circles first, then do round two on ALL the circles you created, then round three on ALL….. and so one…. Or do you create each square fully, all the rounds, except the joining round individually for each square? Not sure what best practices are. This will be my first granny blanket Love your work!

[@nautikrallcrochet]

I work each one continuously so there’s only two ends when you’re finished. The starting end and finishing end. At the end of each round instead of cutting your yarn-just chain up and continue on!! This makes them so easy and quick to work up☺️ happy crocheting!!

[@sierraschaffer613]

@@nautikrallcrochet ok that makes sense. Thanks

[@silviarodriguez4881]

I’m very happy to have found this page. I have a question, how long should the yarn be for each color ?

[@carolgallagher5433]

I am new to crochet. And I have played with this square. I’d like to know if I could continue with the outer row to make the square even larger? But I’m not sure exactly how to figure what stitch or how to go about it. 🥴

[@ericawilson1720]

Would it be possible to add even on more added row of bursts, with 7 chains on the hook and chaining 4? Or would it not work? Thank you!

[@nautikrallcrochet]

You can definitely do another round-however I have found that they tend to get really “holey” at that point and it doesn’t work as well for blankets. But that could just be my personal preference…..

[@valeriereinholtz4523]

I love this sunburst granny. Going a tinge fast. Lost me a couple of times

[@diamondsandlipgloss]

not beginner friendly, but then again, you didn't title it as beginner friendly... HOWEVER your result is beautiful! i'll try once i've improved my skills😊

[@carolloftus2222]

Can u tell me what worsted weight yarn u used please

[@silvanaurtubiaalvarez7057]

Muy bonitos puntos... lo del cuadrado la explicación es muy rápida... no entendí mucho sugiero edites tus videos pero gracias por el nuevo aprendizaje

[@heathera5457]

I love this square! What are the finished dimensions? How do I make a 9 inch flower (before the square)?

[@nautikrallcrochet]

This makes a 5.5” square. In order to make it bigger you’d have to add more rounds…but with that comes the problem of too many chains between the bobbles. It starts to get too spaced out and when you add the square round it doesn’t work out. There’s no way to make a 9inch square unless you increase the size of the yarn and use according hook size. I’d love to see a bulky weight one!! I think a giant sunburst would be so so gorgeous. Best of luck!

[@charmainetorre8271]

What border would u suggest?

[@nautikrallcrochet]

Hi! I usually do a sweet little Pom Pom border with my large sunbursts. Check out this free pattern to see it in action ❤ www.nautikrallcrochet.com/blog-freepatterns/island-time-blanket-pattern

[@susanmason9467]

What if you want the sunburst portion bigger? How would you work that out?

[@nautikrallcrochet]

I would try the same technique I used in round 4-add an extra dc to the bobble stitch and another chain? Eventually though your chains will become so long in between the bobble stitches that it’ll look weird when you turn it into a square....something you’d have to play around with! Happy crocheting!

[@ronellbotha1539]

Thank you so much!