You can get a FREE version of this pattern on my website.

How’s this for a multi-purpose crochet project? Learn (or practice) making a granny square. Then use the granny square as eco-friendly gift wrapping that the gift recipient can reuse as a place mat, table centrepiece or, if you make it with cotton, it can be used as a dishcloth or washcloth.

Includes a chart for the granny square plus written instructions for 3 types of decorative border - shell stitch, V-stitch and crab stitch.

To complete this pattern you’ll need:

• DK weight yarn
• 4mm crochet hook
• Yarn needle

My Learn to crochet online ebook includes my original FREE, single colour Granny Square pattern. The ebook has both a written and charted pattern for a single colour granny square, plus it links to a video walk-through of the pattern.

This granny square gift wrap pattern has been modified from the original so you can make a Granny Square that has smaller “holes” plus add on a decorative border.