Welcome to my first blog tutorial!
Instead of writing a Masters research proposal, i have spent the afternoon making and photographing daisy square crochet, which i have to say has been far more fun. To combine with Granny square Mondays, i am producing my own patterns and leaflets to go in a crochet gift box (another story for another day beginning with ordering the wrong boxes….).
There are many daisy granny squares out on the interwebnet, not to mention the confusing USA v UK versions of stitches. I am relatively new to crochet and can only do a few stitches, so can’t lay claim to copyright on any of this, however, this is me mashing a few of those patterns together making the most of a treble and half treble stitch!
Make a chain of 4 stitches, join with slip stitch to make a circle
Round 1: Chain 3 (this counts as your first treble stitch), then 11 more trebles into centre (12 stitches total) (Treble: Yarn over hook, down the hole, pull through, yarn over hook, through 2, yarn over hook through 2) Finish with a slip stitch to join the round.
Round 2: Change to new colour (white) chain 3 (counts as your first treble), then 2 more trebles into same space to form a cluster of 3. Next comes the funky daisy part.
TAKE OUT your hook and insert into the top of the first treble (in this case your chain of 3 this very first time), then catch the loop at the top and pull through. (This closes into a petal shape). Chain 2 and continue your next petal with 3 trebles, take out hook, insert into top stitch and pull through. Continue all the way round and finish with a slip stitch. There should be 12 petals altogether.
Round 3: Change colour and chain 3 (this counts as your first treble), 2 more trebles into same chain space. Chain 3 (this is your corner) then 3 more trebles into the same space.
Each time now you are working in sets of 3 with no chains between groups. If you just continue with TREBLES you will have the photo underneath, can you see it’s going all curvy?
After your corner set of trebles, make a group of 3 HALF trebles in the next chain space (yarn over hook, down the hole, pull through, yarn over hook, pull through all 3 stitches). Then make another group of 3 half trebles into the next chain space.
You are now on the next corner, so 3 trebles into same chain space, chain 3, 3 trebles into same chain space.
Continue with 2 blocks of half trebles, next corner set of trebles, 2 blocks of half trebles until you join all the way round with a slip stitch.
You can stop here with 1 round of background if you wish. I have continued to do another round 
Round 4:
Chain 3 (this counts as a last stitch in a group of 3 – see photo on right hand side above). Working in the next chain space, make a group of 3 trebles, chain 3, 3 trebles into same chain space (this is your first corner) then continue with 3 groups of 3 trebles into each chain space. Corner next: 3 trebles, chain 3, 3 trebles into same chain space, continue round with trebles in groups of 3 until end. On the last group of trebles, you will only do 2 as you will catch up with the first chain of 3.
If you only want to do trebles and not worry about taking your hook out, you will end up with the pink daisy square on the left of this pic. Here i have just made groups of trebles with one chain between them.
So there you are! Make as many squares as you like for a cushion, blanket, scarf and when i learn how to join them all together i will let you know and write another tutorial!!
Happy Sunday!
Sue
P.S. If you find any errors in instruction, do let me know so i can amend. Thanks 🙂