Santa’s Cane Crochet Square Pattern

Santa's crochet square pattern FREE

A new crochet square pattern, Santa’s Cane square, is now a free crochet pattern here on the blog. Designed as part of the Cozy Christmas Cushion CAL, you can make it for a beautiful holiday afghan, pillow, wall hanging, purse or other.

Read all about this cute Christmas crochet square or scroll down for the free square crochet pattern.

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Free Christmas crochet square pattern

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candy cane square crochet pattern with much and holiday decoration

Versitile, cute, festive holiday fun. The Santa’s Cane crochet square is here to brighten your holiday. Use this easy tapestry crochet square pattern to create wall hangings, or combined with other squares for a festive pillow, blanket, scarf, and so much more. Get creative with it!

This pattern is for a 5″ (13.5 cm) square in worsted weight yarn and will bring the classic candy cane touch to your festive holiday crafts. Explore the holiday crochet pattern now!

Cozy Christmas Cushion

The Santa Cane crochet square pattern is designed as part of the Cozy Christmas Cushion CAL. For this fun festive CAL, I’ve teamed up with 8 other designers to bring you a 2 new cute tapestry crochet holiday squares every week of November 2022.

Each square is designed to be 13.5 cm / 5″ in worsted-weight yarn. Assembled, the 9 squares form a cute Christmas Cushion.

You can find all the square patterns on the event page here.

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Downloadable Santa’s Cane Crochet Square Pattern

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Before you Start your Holiday Crochet Square

Materials

Size

The crochet square is 13.5 cm / 5”.

Gauge

The gauge for this pattern, in sc, is 16 st by 18 rows for a 10 cm by 10 cm / 4” by 4” square.

Abbreviations

This pattern uses US notations.

  • st = stitch
  • ch = chain
  • sc = single crochet

Notes

Work instructions between [] the indicated number of times or until the end of the row/round.

The final number of stitches is indicated at the end of the row/round between < >.

The turning ch 1 and ch 2 don’t count as stitches throughout the pattern except if mentioned otherwise.

The pattern is written in crochet shorthand.  For example:

  • “sc 1” means to single crochet in the next stitch,
  • “sc 2” means to single crochet in each of the next 2 stitches,
  • and “2 sc” means to single crochet twice in the next st.

Colorwork is indicated with the abbreviated color between () before the stich count to work in this color. For example (W) sc 8 means single crochet the next 8 stitches in white.

Tips and Tricks

  • If color changing is new to you: when working the last part of the indicated stitch, insert hook, draw up a loop, (do not yarn over with the same color to finish the stitch), finish the stitch with the new color according to the pattern.
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  • When using more than one color in a row:
    • Work over the unused colors in tapestry style for the candy cane part.
    • Leave the red and white yarn hanging at the end of the cane section and work with only the green yarn for the rest of the square. You’ll pick the red and white yarn back up where you left them on the next row.

The Actual Christmas Crochet Square Pattern

The crochet square is worked in rows back and forth. Follow the written pattern (right-handed) or refer to the graph below. All stitches are sc.

With your 4mm / US G – 6 hook, ch 21 + 1 in main color.

← Row 1 [RS]: (MC) Sc in the 2nd ch from the hook, sc 20, turn. <21 st>

→ Row 2 [WS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc across, turn.
← Row 3 [RS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 15, (R) sc 2, (MC) sc 4, turn.
→  Row 4 [WS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 4, (R) sc 1, (W) sc 2, (MC) sc 14, turn.

← Row 5 [RS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 13, (R) sc 1, (W) sc 2, (MC) sc 5, turn.
→  Row 6 [WS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 5, (W) sc 1, (R) sc 2, (MC) sc 13, turn.

← Row 7 [RS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 11, (R) sc 1, (W) sc 2, (R) sc 1, (MC) sc 6, turn.
→  Row 8 [WS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 7, (W) sc 1, (R) sc 2, (W) sc 1, (MC) sc 10, turn.

← Row 9 [RS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 10, (W) sc 2, (R) sc 1, (MC) sc 8, turn.
→  Row 10 [WS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 9, (W) sc 2, (R) sc 1, (MC) sc 9, turn.

← Row 11 [RS]: (MC) Ch1, sc 9, (R) sc 2, (W) sc 1, (MC) sc 9, turn.
→  Row 12 [WS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 10, (R) sc 1, (W) sc 2, (MC) sc 8, turn.

← Row 13 [RS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 7, (R) sc 1, (W) sc 2, (MC) sc 11, turn.
→  Row 14 [WS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 11, (W) sc 1, (R) sc 2, (MC) sc 7, turn.

← Row 15 [RS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 6, (W) sc 2, (R) sc 1, (MC) sc 12, turn.
→  Row 16 [WS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 12, (W) sc 3, (MC) sc 6, turn.

← Row 17 [RS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 5, (R) sc 2, (W) sc 1, (MC) sc 13, turn.
→  Row 18 [WS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 7, (R) sc 3, (MC) sc 3, (R) sc 2, (W) sc 1, (MC) sc 5, turn.

← Row 19 [RS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 5, (W) sc 2, (R) sc 1, (W) sc 1, (R) sc 2, (W) sc 3, (MC) sc 7, turn.
→  Row 20 [WS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 8, (W) sc 2, (R) sc 2, (W) sc 3, (MC) sc 6, turn.

← Row 21 [RS]: (MC) Ch 1, sc 7, (W) sc 1, (R) sc 2, (W) sc 2, (MC) sc 9, turn.

Row 22 – 23: (MC) Ch 1, sc across, turn.

Fasten off and weave in the ends.

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