How to Crochet Granny Square Book Sleeve (Tutorial for Beginners)

Learn how to crochet a beautiful classic granny square book sleeve with a strawberry color combo perfect for gifting to a bookworm, with a step-by-step tutorial from Kendalltai. It features a lovely letter heart strap with border fish which can be closed with a heart applique button. This project will become much easier if you already know the granny stitch.

It is equally perfect for books, tablets, or Kindles, The complete guide for crocheting this book sleeve will be available at the end of this post. Let’s get started!

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Skills Used: Key techniques include making a magic ring, double crochet, chaining, color changes, and working in the round to crochet a granny square. Additionally, the tutorial covers securing yarn tails, assembling the sleeve using a yarn needle, and shaping a heart button with triple crochets and slip stitches.

Guide Span: 21 Minutes

Personalization Tips: This crochet book sleeve can be customized in multiple ways by changing yarn colors or adjusting the size just by changing the number of rounds. Instead of a two-tone design, you can use multicolor. The color ideas from the tutor include red for the sleeve and black for the heart, sea green, and pink and purple shades.

The closure can also be modified by using a regular button, a ribbon tie, or a snap closure instead of a heart button.

Crochet Strawberry Book Sleeve Tutorial

This step-by-step tutorial provides a detailed guide for crocheting a stylish book accessory, the sleeve, perfect for beautifying books, tablets, or journals for traveling. The tutorial explains how to construct a large granny square, add color changes, assemble the sleeve using simple sewing techniques, and create a unique heart button closure. Here is a quick overview of this guide:

Introduction & Materials: The tutorial teaches how to crochet a book sleeve with a heart button closure using medium-weight yarn, a 4.5mm crochet hook, scissors, and a yarn needle.
Creating the Granny Square Base: The book sleeve is built using a large granny square, starting with a magic ring and a foundation of double crochets. Each round is constructed with three double crochets and chain spaces at the corners.
Color Changes & Expanding the Square: Every row alternates colors, and the work is turned at the end of each row to maintain a neat pattern. Knots are tied securely to ensure clean transitions.
Checking the Size: The granny square is expanded to fit the size of a book or tablet, with 16 rows recommended before folding and assembling.
Sewing the Sides Closed: The square is folded into an envelope shape, and the sides are sewn together using a yarn needle, ensuring strong seams.
Crocheting the Heart Button: A heart-shaped button is made separately using a magic ring, triple crochets, and double crochets, then attached to the book sleeve as a decorative and functional closure.
Final Assembly & Finishing Touches: The heart button is secured using its yarn tails, and the sleeve is flipped inside out for a clean finish. The book sleeve is now complete!

Supplies Mentioned

Following are the materials and tools needed for crocheting this granny square book sleeve :

Yarn: Medium-weight acrylic yarn (two colors)
Crochet Hook: 4.5mm
Scissors
Yarn Needle

Stitches Used

Following are the quick crochet instructions for the techniques used:

MR (Magic Ring): Create a loop of yarn around your fingers, insert the hook, pull up a loop, and start crocheting into the ring.
CH (Chain): Yarn over and pull through the loop on the hook.
DC (Double Crochet): Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through stitch, yarn over, pull through two loops, yarn over, pull through remaining two loops.
TR (Treble Crochet): Yarn over twice, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through stitch, yarn over, pull through two loops, yarn over, pull through two more loops, yarn over, pull through the last two loops.
SL ST (Slip Stitch): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through the stitch and loop on the hook.