Granny's Daughter Nine Patch Square

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Designed by Susan Ann Smith © 1999 and posted with permission

Materials: Worsted weight yarn, in colors of your choice. Each Granny's Daughter motif requires about 2 yards of yarn.
Crochet Hook: Size I or size needed for gauge
Gauge: This pattern makes a 6" square (Make last border rnd in dc for 7" square)

Square
A Granny's Daughter is the first rnd of a traditional Granny Square
Ch 4, slst into 1st st to form a loop.
Ch 3 (1st dc), 2 dc into loop, ch 3, *3 dc into loop, ch 3*, repeat * to * 2 more times, join to top of beg ch 3 with a slst. End off. Weave in ends.

Make 9 Granny's Daughter squares. When you have made all 9 squares, sew them tog in 3 rows of 3 squares:

Border
Rnd 1: Starting in any corner, attach yarn with a sc, (ch2, sc) all in same corner sp, *sc in next 3 dc's, sc in next ch sp, ch1, sc in next ch sp*, rep *-* once, sc in next 3 dc's, work corner sc,ch2,sc. Continue to work around sq in this manner. At end of 4th side of sq sl st to beg sc.

Rnd 2:
ch1, sc in same sp, sc in each sc and ch around working sc, ch2, sc in corners, sl st to beg sc, end off.

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