Underground Crafter launches community-driven granny square month crochet-along

A new free 8-inch granny square every day, 20 designers in the mix, and a planned 30-pattern finish gave Underground Crafter’s fourth Granny Square Month an easy on-ramp into a very social kind of crochet. The month-long make-along launched May 29 and ran through June as a daily celebration built around one of the hobby’s most recognizable motifs.

Marie Segares, the crochet and knitting blogger, designer and teacher behind Underground Crafter, framed the event around the kind of flexible making that keeps granny squares so durable in the first place. Crocheters could join the squares into a blanket, save only the designs they loved, or put the motifs into other projects. That modular structure is exactly what makes the format click for both beginners and more experienced makers: each square is manageable on its own, but the full set builds toward a visible finish.

The 2026 edition also came with extra event energy. Underground Crafter offered a limited-time bundle containing all 30 patterns as an instant download through July 5, 2026, and paired the crochet-along with a giveaway offering 10 prizes from seven companies. The daily pattern rollout kept the pace steady through June, giving participants a reason to return each day instead of treating the project like a one-and-done download.

Segares has said she learned to crochet from her maternal grandmother in 1984, and that family origin story fits the way Granny Square Month works now: personal skill-building turned outward into a community rhythm. Underground Crafter also has a history of hosting virtual make-alongs throughout the year, so the granny square celebration sits within a broader pattern of free online gatherings designed to keep makers connected while they work at their own pace.

The motif itself carries its own history. Underground Crafter has noted that the traditional granny square pattern was first published by Weldon and Company of London in a late-1800s printed leaflet, with earlier posts citing 1890 as the original publication year. That old pattern still feels freshly adaptable in 2026, and Granny Square Month leaned into that mix of heritage and reinvention by turning a classic block into a daily, community-driven project with a clear payoff: one square at a time, then something bigger.