Teeny Tiny Flowers

This is a very simple little crochet pattern for small five-petalled flowers and leaves.I love making crochet flowers. I love the decorative nature of them, that they can be used to embellish all sorts of crochet, knit or fabric garments and objects. They can be used to decorate a bag, a hat, a cushion, a coat. In rows, in little posies, or randomly scattered. First a word about yarn thickness and hook size.Below are three flowers made using the exact same pattern, but with different yarns and hooks.On the left, Rowan DK handknit cotton, on the recommended 4mm hook.In the middle, the same Rowan cotton, but on a 3.5mm hook.On the right, Rowan DK wool on a 3.5mm hook. I prefer to use a slightly smaller hook size than usual so that the flowers come out tighter/smaller (as in the middle flower). The pattern is written in UK terms, the stitches as follows :: sl st :: insert hook, yarn over, pull the loop back through the stitch, then through the loop on your hook. For US peeps: UK dc = US sc

How to make colourful crocheted flowers These tiny flowers are sweetly adorable, totally thrifty and really easy to do. In mere minutes, you can whip up a rainbow bouquet from scraps of your leftover yarn. And when you're done growing flowers you can gift them to all the crafty folk you know. Although we bet they'll be making them too … Materials:• Cotton DK yarn in various colours• 3.5mm (UK9/US E4) crochet hook• Tapestry needle AbbreviationsUK terms are used in this pattern:ch – chaindc – double crochethtr – half treble crochettr – treble crochetdtr – double treble crochetrep – repeatsl st – slip stitchst – stitch If you'd like to use a different weight of yarn, just check the label for the recommended crochet hook size and use that. Row 1: ch 3 Round 2: 11 tr into 3rd ch from hook, join with sl st to top of beginning ch 3 (12 tr made) Round 3: Join 2nd colour into top of any tr st from last round. Round 5: sl st into 1st ch space. (2 ch, 3 tr, 2 ch ) over each 4 ch loop space.

Tutorial Tuesday: Crochet flowers Here’s a new skill to learn: crochet! We know how much you loved these beauties from issue 3, so Carmen Heffernan is back to share the crochet love with even more of you online. Supplies: Cotton DK yarn in various colours 3.5mm (UK9/US E4) crochet hook Tapestry needle Abbreviations: UK terms are used in this pattern ch – chain dc – double crochet htr – half treble crochet tr – treble crochet dtr – double treble crochet rep – repeat sl st – slip stitch st – stitch If you’d like to use a different weight of yarn, just check the label for the recommended crochet hook size and use that! Large Flower Row 1: ch 3 Round 2: 11 tr into 3rd ch from hook, join with sl st to top of beginning ch 3 (12 tr made) Round 3: Join 2nd colour into top of any tr st from last round. Fasten off. (6 x 4 ch loop spaces made) Round 5: sl st into 1st ch space. (2 ch, 3 tr, 2 ch ) over each 4 ch loop space. Round 7: sl st into 1st chain space. (2 ch, 4 tr, 2 ch ) over each 5 ch loop. Small Flower Row 1: ch 2

Do you like free crochet patterns? Hi there , sometimes, you wrote me, that when you would like to open some of my free pdf crochet patterns - that it says to you, that the file could not be opened... well - I think that it is something what I can not able to know why it is happening... so I made a big decission :-) and I decided to write my free patterns directly on the blog and to pdf's files too :-).. What do you think about it? And what about to begin right now? OK, let's begin :-) Make a cup of coffee or tea, take a hook 3 mm and some rest of 100% cotton, 5 ply weight yarn, maybe you find some buttons and I know, that you find some beads in your sewing's suitcase too :-) I choosed the colors of chakras: 115 red, 281 orange, 208 yellow, 205 green, 165 light blue, 124 indigo blue, 113 violet and 114 cyklamen Material I used: 100% cotton - Catania Solids by Schachenmayr SMC Abbreviations used: Chain (CH) Slip stitch (SlSt) Single crochet (SC) Half double crochet (HDC) Double crochet (DC) Instruction: Petal: Beginning: make 9 CH