How to Fix the Hole in the Center of Your Granny Square

This video shows you how to tighten a hole in the middle of your granny square that’s bigger than you’d like – it’s a fix! If you want to learn how to PREVENT this happening in the first place, please check out this post: 6 Tips for a Perfect Starting Ring for Crochet Motifs.

My crochet advice stems from more than 10 years experience of teaching hundreds of students in person, in and around Surrey, UK.

Video Tutorial – How to Fix the Hole in the Center of Your Granny Square

How to Fix the Hole in the Center of Your Granny Square

Use the tail end of your motif to create a kind of drawstring to close up the hole.
1. Thread the tail end onto a tapestry or wool needle.
2. Making sure you’re at the back of the work, sew through each strand of yarn at the base of the stitches, all the way around the inside of the ring, making sure you’re catching all the strands of the legs.
3. Pull the tail tight, drawing the hole closed.
4. Fasten off with a couple of small back stitches and weave the end in before carefully snipping off with scissors?

Don’t have a long enough tail?

No worries, use a fresh piece of yarn in the same colour, or eve some sewing thread, and do the same thing but tie the ends together before weaving in your ends.

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