Beginner's Guide to Crocheting a Granny Square

Beginner's Guide to Crocheting a Granny Square

Join us in-store to discover the joys of crochet with a classic granny square project, ideal for beginners.

Hobbycraft Southampton

4.8 (970)

ClassBento donates 50p with every booking to

1.5 hours

4 to 5 guests

£29

Overview

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What you'll do

Fall in love with crochet by creating a classic granny square! You’ll be able to combine beautiful colours to stitch this traditional crochet design, perfect for setting you up for so many other projects. Granny squares can be used to make blankets, garments and more – we’re here to help you get started with your first one.

With the help of an Hobbycraft Artisan, you’ll learn how to crochet a granny square by using all the key techniques. You’ll use double and treble stitches, as well as learning how to decipher a granny square pattern and how to change yarn colours.

There’s a kit included with the workshop to give you everything you need for the project. Within the 90-minute session, you’ll be able to create one granny square, though you can continue to practice making more once you’ve got to grips with all the skills. The kit even features a pattern for a granny square blanket to help you continue your adventure in crochet!

This workshop is the perfect way to grow your crochet confidence, with tips and support from a pro! It’s ideal if you already have basic knowledge of the stitches but are looking to refresh yourself or develop further.

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This workshop is also available as a private workshop for group bookings of 4+.

Keeping everyone safe

At Hobbycraft, we want our workshops to be enjoyable, inclusive, and safe for everyone. Some workshops are suitable for children, and where this is the case, a parent or legal guardian is responsible for supervising their child at all times unless the workshop is clearly stated as suitable for independent attendance. Our colleagues and instructors are there to guide the activity and support a safe environment, and if any concerns about safety or wellbeing arise during a workshop, these should be raised with a member of staff straight away.

What you'll get

2 x balls of yarn

Yarn snips

Crochet hook

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Recent reviews of Beginner's Guide to Crocheting a Granny Square

5/5 from Sarah Pregon, attended Jun 2026: Excellent granny square crochet workshop with Mandy. Very knowledgeable, friendly, helpful and fun. Thank you.
5/5 from Denise Glanville, attended Jun 2026: Very helpful class with excellent tutor. Now understand where I was going wrong!
5/5 from Anonymised ClassBento customer, attended Mar 2026: Excellent class. Date I booked turned out I was the only one attending which was perfect for me. Teacher was excellent, knew her craft very well and was friendly and approachable.
5/5 from Catherine Ann Johnston, attended Mar 2026: Christie was very helpful, explaining how to do all the necessary stitches for a granny square. I now feel much more confident
5/5 from Pauline Partridge, attended Feb 2026: really enjoyed the session. Chrissie is a very good tutor, very patient and explains everything. I felt it has put me back on the course of crochet. much more benificial to me to have a class than to go on line. I hope there will be another next step up class on a face to face workshop soon. Thank you Chrissie.
5/5 from Carol Stanfield, attended Nov 2025: Mandy was an excellent teacher. Has inspired me to keep going with the crocheting
5/5 from Jayne Thompson, attended Nov 2025: Mandy gave clear instruction a most enjoyable class
5/5 from Karen Brussels, attended Aug 2025: I took the beginners crochet a granny square. All materials supplied. Teacher was lovely and answered my questions on other areas of crochet. Even showed me an easier way to do a magic circle. Venue was clean.
5/5 from Margaret Jeffery, attended May 2025: Excellent class, very friendly and helpful teacher, I learned to crochet Granny square now I can carry on
5/5 from Rachel Everett, attended May 2025: Our class teacher was great. She was very knowledgeable but also very patient! She clearly has a passion for crochet and it shows
5/5 from Angela Dumbleton, attended May 2025: She was very helpful. Took time and patient with everyone. Learnt a lot. Would recommend course and teacher
5/5 from Sharon Trent, attended Oct 2024: Teacher was friendly, helpful, patient and kind. She taught in a way that was clear and easy to follow. The materials provided where good and I liked the colours used. I learnt more about how to read patterns as well as how to make a granny square. Good value for money.
5/5 from Mrs L Dakin, attended Oct 2024: Our teacher Chrissy was exceptional. She was in knowledgeable, patient and adaptive according to her students experience. The time flew. Thank you so much for a great class.
5/5 from Amanda Vian, attended Jul 2024: My daughter and I absolutely loved the beginner’s granny square crochet class with Mandy. She was friendly and so patient, and explained everything so well to us. We managed to do a square, with the lovely coloured yarn and crochet hook provided, and understand how to carry on at home. The class was a hour and a half, and was enough time to learn the basics. Will definitely do another class with her in the future.
5/5 from Sarah Spencer, attended Jun 2024: Dylan was fantastic. Very patient and kind and a great teacher. I highly recommend her classes.
5/5 from Elizabeth King, attended May 2024: Lovely teacher, who showed lots of patience. My friend and I attended the how to crochet a granny square. Good quality materials provided and very good value for money. I feel I have accomplished a granny square!!!
5/5 from Sally Harries, attended Apr 2024: We can highly recommend this crochet workshop. Dylan our tutor was brilliant: friendly knowledgeable, calm and extremely patient! She was great at dealing with our different paces and made all three of us achieved as much as we could in the time. Would love it to be a full 2 hours! Lovely bright and airy studio. Shane we were so engrossed we forget to take a pic
5/5 from Brenda Hampton, attended Apr 2024: my daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. we learnt how to crochet a granny square and we are doing well with it. our teacher was great and patient with us and made sure we knew what we were doing. would recommend the course.
5/5 from Kim Thomas, attended Dec 2023: Extremely professional tutor Explained everything thoroughly I would 100% recommend this course Thank you very much
5/5 from Frances Hardy, attended Dec 2023: The lead was extremely patient - the group was of varying experience and yet everyone achieved a Grammy square to a greater or lesser extent, with each of us receiving guidance at our own level. The materials were top quality and the written instructions were clear. Very good vfm.
5/5 from Lynne Newson, attended Nov 2023: Good lesson, teacher very good, bag with wool and crochet hook a nice added extra.
5/5 from Debbie Sharpe, attended Nov 2023: Super friendly teacher, extremely patient! Shared her time with each student brilliantly. Will def book again
5/5 from Clair Jordain, attended Nov 2023: Great teacher. She helped everyone no matter what level they were working at. Just wish there were more crochet classes I could do at Southampton!
4/5 from Cherry Tanner, attended Nov 2023: Enjoyed the lesson. Teacher was excellent. Room a bit cold. Follow up would be good.
5/5 from Karen, attended Oct 2023: Another brilliant afternoon, our teacher was so informative and helpful I am looking forward to making lots of squares for a blanket.
5/5 from Jen Marsh, attended Jul 2023: I really enjoyed the course. The teacher is outstanding, she has so much patience for one so young. I would recommend this course to anybody. The materials supplied were good and I have now fulfilled a big ambition to crochet a granny square.

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4.8 (970)

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