Japanese Flower Motif Crochet Pattern

If you've followed my blog and seen my crochet patterns for any length of time, you're well aware with the fact that I love to crochet flowers. I've seen a few Japanese flower motifs recently and fell in love. I decided to whip up one of my own, and after a few trial and error attempts, I came up with one that I'm pleased with. I think it would be beautiful to make an entire afghan out of these flowers, but it's probably more likely that I'll use them as a stack of coasters on the coffee table. Either way, they're beautiful and I'm going to enjoy them.

This project just uses a small amount of yarn. Have lots of tiny skeins of yarn floating around your craft room? This project is just the one for you. I could probably make 16 rainbow afghans with all the yarn I have floating around my house. I think they'd even make fun blankets for a baby girl. 

Materials: 

- small amounts of 100% cotton, worsted weight yarn in three colors

- H crochet hook

- Tapestry needle for weaving ends

Notes:
Starting Double Crochet Cluster (SDCC): ch 3, wrap yarn around hook. Insert hook into a dc from the previous round. Pull up a loop; yarn over, pull through 2 loops. There should be 2 loops remaining on your hook. Yarn over, insert hook into the SAME stitch; pull up a loop; yarn over, pull through 2 loops. There should now be 3 loops on your hook. Yarn over, pull through all loops. 

Double Crochet Cluster (DCC): Wrap yarn around hook. Insert hook into a dc from the previous round. Pull up a loop; yarn over, pull through 2 loops. There should be 2 loops remaining on your hook. Yarn over, insert hook into the SAME stitch; pull up a loop; yarn over, pull through 2 loops. There should now be 3 loops on your hook. Yarn over, insert hook into the SAME stitch. Pull up a loop; yarn over, pull through 2 loops. There should now be 4 loops on your hook. Yarn over, pull through all loops.

Japanese Flower Motif: 

ch 5. Join with a sl st to form ring. 

Round 1: ch 2, 9 dc into ring. Sl st to the top of the first dc. Cut yarn and weave ends. (9)

Round 2: Join second color yarn with a sl st. Ch 2, SDCC, ch 2 in the same stitch. *DCC, ch 2* in each stitch around. Sl st to the top of the SDCC. Cut yarn and weave ends. (9 dc clusters)

Round 3: Join third color yarn with a sl st in any of the ch 2 spaces between the clusters. ch 5 (counts as dc and ch 3), dc in the same ch 2 space. hdc in the next stitch (which would be the top of the SDCC). *dc, ch 3, dc in the next ch space. hdc in the next stitch (top of the DCC)* around. Do not sl st at the end of this round.  (9 ch 3 spaces formed)

Round 4: work 1 sc, 5 dc, 1 sc in the first ch 3 space *sc, 5 dc, sc* in each ch 3 space around. Sl st to the first sc to join. Cut yarn and weave ends. (9 petals formed)

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If you're like me and you think these would make a beautiful afghan, check out this YouTube video. It will demonstrate how you can join your flowers (it's a join as you go method, so don' work up 50 flowers and then go watch the video). It's really simple, and the results would be stunning. 

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