Rainbow - Never Ending Granny Squares

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Rainbow - Never Ending Granny Square

by Michael Sellick - The Crochet Crowd

This afghan will approximately measure 6.0 feet square. You will use 2 balls of each colour to make this fabulous afghan.

Materials:

Size J Crochet Hook or 6.0 MM

Yarn:

12 Balls of Bernat Super Value Yarn. When purchasing this yarn, ensure each colour is within the same rainbow spectrum. There are colours where the wrong shade of the spectrum may stand out and not be uniform with this design.
You will need two ball of each colour to complete this afghan.
Colours seen are 07421 Black, 00607 Berry Red, 00615 Carrot, 00608 Bright Yellow, 00609 Kelly Green, 00610 Royal Blue, 07797 Damson.
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Helpful Tips

When doing this afghan, you will only slip stitch at the starting point for each colour.
When beginning, you need to build all the colours before you can fully rotate around for the very first time.
You need to keep yourself organized by having your yarn in a box. This prevents the 7 strands from tangling.
Due to the square being constantly turned, it will tangle the yarn. After each colour is placed around. You must rotate your afghan in the opposite direction. Very much like an old type writer needing to go back to the start. This will prevent the yarn from tangling.

Applying Colours Sequentially

If you look carefully, all colours were added before the very first colour (RED) was allowed to circle around this afghan.
When applying each colour for the very first time, you can only get to the white line in the rotation. You can't go any further as the RED has nothing to grab onto.
As you add each colour onto, you will continue to crochet yourself to the white line.
When all colours that you wanted are added on, you can then finally circle your square.
If you look carefully. You can't rotate around this afghan until all colours are added first.
The white line is showing you where you will stop and then add the next colour back at the beginning.
You will always stop at the white line area when building all the colours on in the very beginning.

At any rotation, you can stop growing your afghan and finish. To maintain it being square. You must stop completely on the upper right hand corner.
If you are not sure, pick a colour and count out how many times it appears before the edge of the afghan. If you have an odd number in any of the 4 directions, it means your afghan isn't square. It should be visually obvious as well.
When finishing your afghan, you will end up with a corner that doesn't appear to be turning.
The colours will run right to the edge.
This is necessary in order to keep the afghan having it's spiral look.

How To Get Started Diagram

Diagram Showing You The Steps. The Diagram below is showing you the colours in a different order than on the pictures above. I did this on purpose to show you that the colours don't make the difference as you can substitute any colours at any time to make this happen.

Solid Dots are the starting slip knots or slip stitches.

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How To Finish

Just a quick reminder, triangles indicate the end point where you fasten off and weave in your ends.
If were to finish the afghan showing the diagram above, the arrow furthest to the left is where the purple would end. Then blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and the finally white.

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Free Pattern:

Using the above diagram... I am going to write this pattern so you can see exactly what I am talking about on the diagram. Remember, you can substitute any colours and any yarn for this pattern.

Using a storage box to store your yarn while working with this project, I am going to give instructions for that as well to prevent yarn tangling.

WHITE

CH 4 and form ring with a SL ST to the BEG Ch.
CH 3, THEN 2 DC into the ring, * CH 2 then 3 DC into the ring, repeat * twice, CH 2 and SL ST to the top of to BEG CH 3.
Fasten off white. DO NOT PLACE YARN IN STORAGE BOX YET

PURPLE

Fasten On to the top of the CH 3 of the white in the previous round.
CH 4, *3DC, CH 2, 3DC into the next CH 2 space on the white round below, then CH 1. Repeat twice and stop.
Pull the loop of the yarn about 6 inches out to prevent the stitches from falling out as you add more colours.
Place YARN in box closest to you.

BLUE

Fasten On around the CH 4 Space.
CH 3 then 2 DC into the same CH4 Space, ch 1. * 3DC, 2CH, 2DC into corner space. CH 1, 3DC into the next CH 1, then repeat from * again and stop.
Pull the loop of the yarn about 6 inches out to prevent the stitches
Place YARN in the box beside the purple.

Green

Fasten On to the top of the CH 3 of the Blue.
CH 4, then 3DC into the next avaible CH 1 Space, CH 1, *3DC, 2 CH, 2DC into the corner CH 2 space.
There will be more CH 1 gaps in the blue under. Each gap gets 3DC, followed by a CH 1. Corners are always the same.
STOP after you turned the corner where the rest are stopping.
Place YARN in the box beside the blue.

Yellow

Repeat the steps in BLUE. The gaps will be more between corners. Complete corners the same.
Stop where the rest of the colours are ending.
Place YARN in the box beside the green.

ORANGE

Repeat the steps in GREEN. There will be more gaps between corners to fill in. Complete corners the same.
Stop where the rest of the colours are ending.
Place YARN in the box beside the yellow.

RED

Repeat the steps in BLUE. The gaps will be more and the corners are done the same.
STOP where the rest of the yarn is ending.
Place YARN in box beside the orange.

WHITE

Repeat the steps in GREEN. There will be more gaps between corners to fill in, do the corners the same.
Stop where the rest of the colours are ending.
Place Yarn in box beside the red.

LETS NOW START TO ROTATE AROUND

After each rotation, you need to rotate the aghan back and not continually let it circle. The continuous circles of the afghan will cause the 7 strands to twist around each other and tangle.

Grabbing the Purple, CH 1, then 3DC into the CH 4 Space as shown on the diagram above. CH 1, and 3DC into the next CH 4 space. You will do this all the way until you get to the WHITE corner. THEN you will turn a corner like you have been 3DC, 2CH, 3DC. CH 1. You will complete the spaces between corners as you were normally doing and completing the corners the same.
You will end up at the corner cover top of the WHITE where we were forced to stop.
You will STOP HERE, pull a 6" Loop and begin the next colour row.

You will now grab the BLUE

Now that you have been all way the around once with the PURPLE, each GAP is clearly obvious. 3DC into each gap with a CH 1 after it. Complete corners the same.
You will end up over top of the Purple where you were forced to stop.

You will do this for every colour until you get the desired size you want.

TO END THIS AFGHAN

I showed you above in pictures what will happen at the end. Each colour runs fully to the edge. It will be on the upper right hand corner if your work is positioned the way it appears in the diagram.
If unsure of your finishing corner. Pick a colour and count how many times it appears before the final edge. If you are ending up with an odd count, it's not square.
To help you, I visualize this afghan where the group of colours are like a rotating ribbon. Knowing WHITE is the final colour before I was able to circle around, I visualize the white as the edge of the colour band that is rotating around.

As shown in the above diagram.

The first colour to the end will be finished with at 3DC into the corner and fastened off.
The 2nd colour will finish off with 3DC into the space before the edge, followed by CH 1 and a DC into the top of the final 3rd DC on the first colour. Fasten off.
The 3rd colour will finish off like STEP 1
The 4th colour will finish off like STEP 2
The 5th colour will finish off like STEP 1
The 6th colour will finish off like STEP 2
The 7th colour will finish off like STEP 1

Your done, and enjoy your new afghan.