Crochet bow square pattern for beginners

Add a sweet handmade touch to your next project with this adorable crochet bow square pattern! The pretty bow design is cute, classic, and easy to customize with your favorite colors, making it perfect for blankets, bags, pillows, coasters, and more. Grab your yarn and hook—the free pattern is below.

This square crochet pattern is perfect for beginners!

If you’re new to tapestry crochet, this crochet bow pattern is a fantastic starting point. Why? Because it only uses two colors, making it the perfect project for beginners.

Plus, since it’s a small project, you won’t feel overwhelmed. It’s a great way to practice how to crochet a square with color changes and get comfortable with the tapestry crochet technique.

Crochet bow square pattern details

Here’s a quick overview of the materials, sizing, gauge, and pattern notes before you begin.

Skill level

Easy. This easy crochet pattern uses only basic crochet stitches.

Materials needed

Crochet hook: H-8 5 mm hook size
Yarn: worsted weight yarn in white and pink
Copy of the bow graph
Yarn needle for weaving the yarn tails in

Finished measurements

4″ wide by 5″ tall (10 cm by 13 cm)

Crochet abbreviations

ch(s): chain(s)
st(s): stitch(es)
sl st: slip stitch
sc = single crochet stitch

Pattern notes

Make color changes indicated by the graph or the written instructions.
Each square on the graph represents a single crochet stitch.
Read the graph from right to left ← on odd-numbered rows and left to right → on even-numbered rows.
← you are working on the “right side” on odd-numbered rows.
→ you are working on the “wrong” side” on even-numbered rows.
Carry the unused yarn color.

Color changes

To change colors, work the last yarn over of a stitch with the new color. This sets up your yarn for the next stitch in the new color.
Carry unused colors across the row by laying them over the stitches you’re working into, so you can pick them up as needed. This is known as tapestry crochet!

Crochet bow square pattern instructions

Make the bow square following the graph or the written instructions.

With white yarn, chain 21, then single crochet into the 2nd ch from the hook and in each remaining chain.
You have made row 1 and should have 20 single crochet stitches.

Graph

Download the bow square graph.

Written instructions

← Row 1: white x 20
→ Row 2: white x 4, pink x 2, white x 8, pink x 2, white x 4
← Row 3: white x 3, pink x 3, white x 8, pink x 3, white x 3
→ Row 4: white x 3, pink x 4, white x 6, pink x 4, white x 3
← Row 5: white x 3, pink x 4, white x 6, pink x 4, white x 3
→ Row 6: white x 2, pink x 6, white x 4, pink x 6, white x 2
← Row 7: white x 2, pink x 6, white x 4, pink x 6, white x 2
→ Row 8: white x 1, pink x 8, white x 2, pink x 8, white x 1
← Row 9: white x 2, pink x 7, white x 2, pink x 7, white x 2
→ Row 10: white x 3, pink x 6, white x 2, pink x 6, white x 3
← Row 11: white x 4, pink x 5, white x 2, pink x 5, white x 4
→ Row 12: white x 5, pink x 4, white x 2, pink x 4, white x 5
← Row 13: white x 6, pink x 3, white x 2, pink x 3, white x 6
→ Row 14: white x 4, pink x 12, white x 4
← Row 15: white x 3, pink x 14, white x 3
→ Row 16: white x 3, pink x 6, white x 2, pink x 6, white x 3
← Row 17: white x 3, pink x 5, white x 4, pink x 5, white x 3
→ Row 18: white x 3, pink x 5, white x 4, pink x 5, white x 3
← Row 19: white x 4, pink x 2, white x 8, pink x 2, white x 4
→ Row 20: white x 20

Adding a border

To add a border, make 2 single crochet stitches in the side of each square along the sides, and in each corner make (2 sc, ch 2, 2 sc).

Finishing

Fasten off and then weave in the yarn tails. Block if desired.

Image of a pink bow crochet square pattern

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