Use this crochet flower as it is – or add it to crochet clothes or sew together to a bag, blanket etc..
Hook: 3 mm
Yarn: Superfine/lace wool, approx. size: 50 g = 200 m
Stitches: double crochet (dc), single crochet (sc), chains (ch), slip stitch (ss)
- Chain 4, connect to a ring with 1 ss in the 4th ch from hook, chain 2. Make 12 dc in the ring (crochet around the yarn end so you don’t need to weave it in in the end). 1 ss in the 1st dc in the round, ch 3, turn. Switch color now, if you’d like.
- 1 ss in the first dc, ch 3, 1 ss in the next dc etc. – finish with 1 ss around the first arch = 12 arches, ch 1, turn
- 1 ss in the first arch. Ch 2, 2 dc in the same arch, ch 3, 2 dc in the next arch, ch 3, 2 dc in the next etc. – finish with 3 ch and 1 ss in the first dc, ch 1
- Continue in the same direction: 1 sc in the same stitch (first dc), then in the next arch make: 1 hdc, 3 dc, 1 hdc – repeat and end the round and flower with: 1 ss in the first sc. Break off and weave in the ends.
Cotton vs wool (using same pattern and same hook):
Video guide:
If you want to make this top:
Use superfine wool, 4,5 mm hook. Start with chainless foundation in treble crochet. Stretch and measure on your body. I made 74 stitches, connect in a round, ch 3 everytime you turn and make 1 treble in each stitch. At the end (when you have the length you want – I used 1 yarn ball of 50 g) you break off and tightly chain from about 1/4 of the way into the top, until it can get over your shoulder, slip stitch to the back.
When you attach the flowers you can sew or crochet, I sewed them on. Place them where you want with pins while you wear the top. You then sew only the back of the flowers onto the top. So this would be either into the back loop of the stitches or into the middle of the dc/sc stitch. Only crochet on the back, not all the way through to the front.
I made sure to not sew all the way around each flower but instead only sew on half and then continue to the next flower and so on, because then when I reached the end I could do the other half of all the flowers.
If you want to make the leaves use same yarn and hook: chain 11. make in the following stitches: 1 sc, 1 hdc, ,1 dc, 4 tr, 1 dc, 1 hdc, 1 sc. 1 ss in the 1st sc. Chain 11 tightly. Now you can make one more leaf. If you want 2 leaves next to each other just chain immediately after making a leaf, then make 1 ss in the 1st sc on the first leaf to connect them.
Sew them by sewing into the edge all the way up on both sides of the leaf and down and by sewing stitches around the 11 chains you make – the chains are so small it’s hard to sew through them (and not necessary).