Whip up the Cranberry Pie Granny Square
Cranberry sauce is definitely an autumn favourite and the lovely deep reds of the berries reflect the season perfectly. And so this is the second free granny square pattern in the Fall in New England Cushion Crochet Along. This crochet square shows the delicate white cranberry flower surrounded by the juicy berries.
You can find the Cranberry Pie Granny Square Pattern for free below or you can buy an inexpensive ad-free pdf pattern.
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Materials
For each square, you will need:
Caron Simply Soft Autumn Maize
Bodkin
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Pattern notes
The pattern is written using UK terminology, for a conversion chart to US terminology click this link.
The square is worked in the round. You do not need to turn your work after each row and you continue working in the same direction as before.
[Stitches written in brackets like this are all worked into the same stitch.]
For the first stitch on each row: Crochet 1 chain to move up to the next round if the round starts with double crochet. Crochet 2 chains if the round starts with a half treble crochet, and crochet 3 chains if the round starts with a treble crochet. These chains count as the first stitch in the row.
Special Stitches
3 trcl – 3 treble cluster
5 trcl – 5 treble cluster
Ch – Chain
Ch-x-sp – Chain X space
Dc – Double crochet
Dtr – Double treble crochet
Fpdc – Front post double crochet
Htr – Half treble
Mc – magic circle
Sdc – special double crochet – instead of inserting your hook into the top loops of the stitch below, you insert your hook through the “V” on the front the stitch below.
Tr – Treble
Instructions
The Cranberry Flower
Round 1: Autumn Red: MC with 8dc. Fasten off. (8dc)
Round 2: Off White: [3dtrcl], ch 1, [3dtrcl], chain 3. 4 times. Fasten off. (8clusters, 4 ch-1-sp, 4 ch-3-sp)
Round 3: Autumn red. 3dc in ch-3-sp, fpdc over cluster, 1 dc in ch-1-sp, fpdc over cluster. 4 times. Fasten off. (24 stitches)
Round 4: Off White: Start at the middle dc that you made in the ch-3-sp in round 3. [1 tr, ch 2, 1tr], htr, 3dc, htr. 4 times. (28 stiches, 4 ch-2-sp)
Round 5: [htr, ch 2, htr], 7 htr. Fasten off. (36 stitches, 4 ch-2 sp)
The Cranberries
Round 6: Harvest Red: [dc, ch 2, dc] in ch-2-sp, 1dc, 5trcl, 2dc, 5trcl, 2dc, 5trcl, dc. 4 times. Fasten off. (4 ch-2-sp, 12 clusters, 32 stitches)
Round 7: Autumn Red: [dc, ch 2, dc] in ch-2-sp, 1dc, 5trcl, 2dc, 5trcl, 2dc, 5trcl, 2dc, 5trcl. 4 times. Fasten off- (4 ch-2-sp, 16 clusters, 36 stitches)
Round 8: Harvest Red: [dc, ch 2, dc] in ch-2-sp, 3dc, 5trcl, 2dc, 5trcl, 2dc, 5trcl, 3dc. 4 times. Fasten off. (4 ch-2-sp, 12 clusters, 44 stitches)
Leaves
Round 9: Off White: [htr, ch 2, htr], 15 htr. 4 times. Fasten off. (4 ch-2-sp, 64 stitches)
Round 10: Pumpkin: Skip 2 stitches after corner ch-2-sp. 13dc, skip 1, ch 1, [3trcl, ch 1, 3trcl, ch 1, 3trcl, ch 1], skip 2, dc. Fasten off. 4 times. (12 clusters, 16 ch-1-sp, 56 stitches).
Round 11: Off White: Start in the first ch-1-sp of a corner sequence. Dc in ch-1-sp, fpdc over cluster, dc in ch-1-sp, fpdc over cluster, dc in ch-1-sp, fpdc over cluster, dc in ch-1-sp, 13 dc. 4 times. (80)
Round 12: 3htr [htr, ch 2, htr], 16 htr. 4 times. (84 stitches, 4 ch-2-sp)
Round 13: 4htr, (htr, ch 2, htr], 17 htr. 4 times. (92 stitches, 4 ch-2-sp)
Congratulations you have now finished the cranberry pie granny square. Join me next week for the Cranberry Pie Square.
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4 Comments
Jan
NB you have a numbering issue with Rows 14 & 15 of the Cloudberry pattern
Crochet Cloudberry
Thanks fo letting me know. I have corrected the round numbers now.
Danielle
Beautiful pattern.
There is a little confusion after Round 10; no Round 11 but a Round 13 instead, Round 12 then another Round 13. Is it just a typo or what ?
Crochet Cloudberry
Hej, thanks for pointing that out I have not corrected the typo. Hope it didn’t confuse you too much.