Three eyeball granny squares on dark wood — one black square with a purple iris, one blue square with a yellow iris and one black square with a green iris — beside a lit jack-o'-lantern, a toy skeleton, a book marked Halloween, a plastic spider, a candle lantern, a ghost-face mug and a bowl of pumpkin sweets

One black eyeball granny square with a purple iris lying flat on cream linen, beside balls of orange, yellow and green yarn, a gold crochet hook, a sprig of daisies and a gingham cloth

Three eyeball granny squares in a row on cream linen — a black square with a purple iris, a blue square with a yellow iris and a black square with a green iris — with balls of yarn, daisies and a gingham cloth around them

Two hands holding one black eyeball granny square with a purple iris on a plain peach background, with four smaller eyeball squares laid around it, their irises pink, yellow, green and orange

Eyeball Granny Square Crochet Pattern

$2.59

A written PDF pattern for a granny-square coaster with one big, wide-open eye — a black pupil with a white highlight and an iris in any colour you like, on a square about 12 cm (4¾ in) across.

A 13-page written pattern, one piece with nothing sewn on. The eye and the square are six rounds from the magic ring to the last corner.
Every count checked before it was published — including round 5, where the eye turns square: all 48 stitches used, twelve along each side.
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Description

Everything about this pattern, before you pay for it

Most pattern listings tell you after. Here is the whole spec.

What it is	A written crochet pattern, delivered as a PDF. The file itself is titled The Eye That Stares Under Your Mug.
What you make	A granny-square coaster with one big, wide-open eye: a black pupil with a single white stitch for its highlight, an iris in any colour you like, two rounds of white, and two rounds of black that turn it into a square.
Finished size	About 12 cm (4¾ in) square.
Hook	3.0 mm — the only hook in the pattern.
Yarn	5-ply combed cotton, about a DK weight, in three colours: black for the pupil and the square, white for the highlight and the white of the eye, and any colour you like for the iris.
Yarn needed	About 9 g (20 yd) of black, 6 g (15 yd) of white and 2 g (5 yd) of the iris colour.
Time to make	About 45 minutes.
Skill level	Confident beginner, which is what the pattern itself says: joined rounds, colour changes, a granny square, and sewn joins.
Techniques used	Magic ring · joined rounds, closing each one where it began · chain, slip stitch, single crochet, half double crochet, double crochet and treble crochet · the double crochet increase · changing colour on the last step of a stitch · working over tails as you go · several stitches into one stitch or one space · working into the back loop together with the strand behind it · skipping stitches to open the spaces of a granny square · closing a round with a sewn join · weaving in ends
Worked in	Joined rounds. Every round begins with chains that only lift the yarn — ch 2, or ch 3 on round 5 — and they are never counted. Rounds 1, 4 and 6 are closed with the tail instead of a slip stitch, so the join does not show.
Number of pieces	One.
Numbered rounds	6 — four for the eye, two for the square. There is nothing else in the pattern.
Count checkpoints	Four: 12 at the end of round 1 (the white highlight and eleven black); 48 at the end of round 4; at the end of round 5, all 48 used, twelve along each side, 14 stitches between corners; 4 groups a side at the end of round 6.
The eye	Every round grows: 12, 24, 36, 48. Round 1’s highlight is a colour change on the last step of its first double crochet. Round 2 is the iris, and it starts in the highlight, so every round after lines up with it.
The round that turns it square	Round 5 goes into the back loop of each round 4 stitch together with the strand just behind it. Every side is written out — [tr, dc], dc, 2 hdc, 4 sc, 2 hdc, dc, [dc, tr] — and the first corner sits straight out from the highlight.
The last round	A classic granny round: 4 groups of 3 double crochet along each side, and 3 dc, ch 2, 3 dc at each corner.
Sewing	None. Nothing is attached.
Also needed	One stitch marker, a blunt yarn needle and scissors.
Pages	13
Terminology	US crochet terms
Language	English
Left-handed	Written for you too. Work it exactly as written and your coaster comes out a mirror image of the photos. Nothing else changes: every round and the first corner start in line with the highlight, so the layout comes out the same, with the highlight on the other side of the pupil.
Delivery	Download link on the confirmation page and in your email, straight away.

Counted twice

My grandmother taught me on her porch, and she said the same thing every time I tangled the yarn: slow down, count twice, rip it out if it’s wrong — there’s no shame in starting over.

So every pattern in this shop gets counted twice. Once when it’s written. Then again, before it goes on sale: every round is re-added, stitch by stitch, and checked against the round before it.

That’s the whole thing. It’s not clever. It is just the step almost nobody takes, because until a pattern is written down properly you can’t take it — and because nobody was ever asked to show their working.

I’m asking to show mine.

The worst thing a pattern does is not be difficult. It is to be wrong early, so that you find out several rounds later and spend the next twenty minutes wondering whether it was you. It usually wasn’t you. But you can’t tell, and that not-being-able-to-tell is the part that makes people put the hook down.

On this eye, the likeliest place for that is round 4. It repeats dc, dc-inc, dc eleven times, and a group worked as just dc, dc-inc leaves you short without looking wrong. So round 4 ends on a checkpoint — 48 stitches — and then round 5 turns the eye square and ends on one more: every one of those 48 used, twelve along each side.

Counted twice means you can tell. No more counting the same round for the third time, writing it out on paper to make it add up, and still not knowing whether it’s you or the pattern. The count in the pattern is right. If yours doesn’t match it, the slip is in the round you just made — undo that one round and carry on.

You probably have one project in a bag somewhere, stopped at a round you can still name. Often it stopped on a count that wouldn’t come out. Every count in this one comes out, which leaves you the part you came for: finishing it, and handing it to someone without an apology.

Here is a real page of it

A pattern that was never crocheted can show you a photograph. It cannot show you a page.

A laptop and a phone side by side showing a page of the eyeball granny square pattern PDF

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What you may do with what you make

What you crochet is yours to sell. Yes — sell them. Sell as many as you like, wherever you like. No credit required and no limit on quantity; the only thing you can't sell is the pattern file itself.

The pattern file itself is not for resale or sharing. For your own use only. Please don't share, resell, or repost the file, or any part of it — send people the shop link instead.

That's the whole licence, and it is here, above the buy button, because finding out afterwards that you're not allowed to sell what you made is a genuinely rotten way to find out.

Anything not covered: [email protected].

Who made this

I'm the maker behind Willa Hooks. One person, three kids, and a shop that fits into the hours around them.

I learned to crochet from my grandmother. Years later I picked her hook back up — still in my sewing box, worn smooth where her fingers used to be — and started making small things to order. Custom work comes in waves, though, and a family eats every week. So in the quiet stretches I started writing patterns down: every stitch, every count, the way she would have explained them. Patiently. As if the person reading had never held a hook and deserved to feel capable from the first row.

Once a pattern is written, it works quietly in the background while I'm at the school pickup line. That is the whole business model, and it is why I would rather sell you one pattern that is right than a hundred that are nearly right.

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Questions

Is this a written pattern, or a video?

A written pattern. Every file is complete on its own: numbered rounds, the stitch count in brackets at the end of each one, checkpoints at the rounds where a miscount shows up, and the finishing steps. A few of them also have a video link inside the PDF — you never need it to follow the pattern.

How do I get it?

The download link appears on the confirmation page and lands in your email straight away. You can re-download from that link, free, for as long as the shop exists. If it ever goes missing, email me and I'll send it again.

What skill level do I need?

It depends on the pattern, so every pattern says so on its own page rather than here: the spec table lists every technique that pattern uses, and the description points out the rounds that need care. I would rather be precise than tell you everything is easy.

Do I have to sew?

That varies from pattern to pattern too, and each pattern's page says which pieces are sewn on, which are glued, and which are worked straight into the fabric.

Can I sell what I make?

Yes — sell them. Sell as many as you like, wherever you like. No credit required and no limit on quantity; the only thing you can't sell is the pattern file itself.

Do I get updates if a pattern changes?

Yes, free. If I improve something or fix anything, everyone who has already bought it gets the new version.

What if I'm left-handed?

Work it exactly as written. Every stitch count is identical; your finished piece comes out as a mirror image of the photographs.