Pretty Flower Square Crochet Pattern for Beginners

Bring some blooming beauty to your crochet projects with this cheerful flower square crochet pattern! Whether you love bright, bold colors or soft, pastel shades, this pattern is the perfect way to add a touch of nature’s charm to blankets, pillows, bags, and more.

Mix and match colors to create a whole garden of crochet squares. Grab your yarn and hook—it’s time to stitch up something fresh and fun! The free pattern is below.

This is a tapestry crochet pattern

This flower square is a beginner tapestry crochet pattern. Tapestry crochet is a crochet technique where you use multiple colors of yarn to create patterns and designs in your projects.

With tapestry crochet, you make color changes following a picture graph (also known as a “grid” or “pixel chart”) or the written instructions.

Tapestry crochet allows for intricate patterns and color work, like this free flower crochet pattern.

This square crochet pattern is perfect for beginners!

If you’re new to tapestry crochet, this crochet flower pattern is a fantastic starting point. Why? Because it only uses three 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.

Square project crochet ideas

Crochet squares are super fun to make, and you can use them for all kinds of cool projects! You can stitch them together to make a warm and colorful blanket or turn them into a stylish square crochet bag.

They’re also great for making pillows, coasters, or even a crochet square cardigan! If you like decorating for the holidays, you can use squares to create festive stockings, table runners or wall hangings.

The best part is that you can mix and match this flower with different designs like my bow square, horse square, or heart square crochet pattern, to make something unique. The project ideas for this free crochet flower pattern are endless!

Flower square crochet pattern information

Materials needed

• Crochet hook:  H-8 5 mm hook size
• Yarn: worsted weight yarn in white, purple, and yellow
• Copy of the flower graph
• Yarn needle for weaving the yarn tails in

Skill level

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

Finished measurements

4″ wide by 4.5″ tall (10 cm by 11 cm)

Crochet terms

• 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!

Flower square crochet pattern instructions

Make the flower 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 flower square graph.

Written instructions

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