Single Crochet Mitered Square Tutorial

Create L-shaped stripes with a single crochet mitered square! Learn the repeating pattern to make squares of any size, then finish your square with an edging round and optional slip stitch border detail.

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What is a Mitered Square?

Mitered squares start at one corner and grow outwards on only 2 sides. This creates the distinctive arrow or L-shaped rows. Changing colors highlights the unique construction, so single crochet mitered squares are most often worked in multiple colors.

Mitered Squares in Other Stitches

You can make a mitered square using any stitch you like! The key for different stitch sizes is how you do the corner increases in the middle of each row. To keep the square shape, you need to add enough stitch width to match the height of the row. Look for more mitered stitch tutorials coming soon!

Featured in this Tutorial

For this tutorial, I used Lion Brand 24/7 Cotton yarn, which Lion Brand had originally sent me for free for other projects.

Abbreviations used

This tutorial uses US crochet terms.

• ch = chain
• sc = single crochet
• sp = space
• st(s) = stitch(es)

How to make a single crochet mitered square

The square starts in one corner, with 1 stitch on each side of a ch-2 corner space.

Row 1: Ch 2, (sc, ch 2, sc) in 2nd ch from hook.  

Now we extend the square, working only on these 2 sides.

All remaining rows: Ch 1, turn, sc in each st to the corner ch-2 sp, (sc, ch 1, sc) in the ch-2 sp, sc in all remaining stitches.

Keep repeating this last row until your square is the size you want. You’ll notice that on every row, we are adding 2 stitches in the corner ch-1 sp. We started with 2 stitches on Row 1, so you can calculate the stitch count of any row by multiplying the row number by 2!

Edging Round

We have been working on only 2 sides of the square. On those 2 sides, you’ll see the pretty v-shaped tops of the stitches. But on the other 2 sides, you’ll see the sides of the rows. To give your mitered square a pretty finish, add an edging round!

Edging Round: Ch 1, turn, sc in each st across to the corner ch-2 sp, (sc, ch 2, sc) in the ch-2 sp, sc in each remaining st across, ch 2 to create another corner. Now working in ends of rows, sc in each row to the next corner – this will be the very first chain that row 1 was worked into. (Sc, ch 2, sc) in the corner ch, sc in each row across to the end, ch 2 for the last corner. Finally, join the round with a slip stitch in the first sc.

Single crochet mitered square chart

This chart shows the mitered square and the edging round.

Optional surface crochet

I dislike the look of one color worked into the side of a row of another color. It’s hard to avoid that with a mitered square edging. You can change colors to match the edging stitches to each stripe, but that may mean a lot of extra ends to weave in.

Another solution is to cover up that transition with surface crochet! Simply make a surface crochet slip stitch at the bottom of each stitch along the edging round. To keep the corners neat, make only 1 slip stitch in each corner, even though there are 2 edging stitches worked into the corner.

Finishing

Block your finished square for best results, and weave in the ends!

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