Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Crocheted Thread Poppies


I've been working on and off for the past couple of weeks trying to come up with a flat crochet thread poppy - it turned into a Goldilocks scenario.  This one was too this and that one was too that!  Then I was looking at my past crocheted flower posts and had the idea of trying a poppy based on the flower center of the flower washcloths I wrote about in this post.  Yes!  Just what I was looking for!  I've used the photos from the flower washcloths as examples.

Materials:
*size 10 crochet thread in black, orange, and golden yellow
*size 7 steel crochet hook

Beginning:  Using black, chain 5 and join with a slip stitch to make a ring.
Round 1:  Chain 3 - counts as your first double crochet (dc).  Into the ring, make 1 dc and 1 chain.  *Make 2 dc and 1 chain.  Repeat from * 4 more times until you have 12 dc and 6 chain spaces total.  Join to third chain of first dc with a slip stitch.  Fasten off.
Round 2:  Attach orange into a chain 1 space.  Chain 3 - counts as your first dc.  In the same chain 1 space, make 1 dc, 2 chains, and 2 dc.  *Moving onto the next chain 1 space, make 2dc, 2 chains, and 2 dc.  Repeat from * 4 more times until you all 6 chain 1 spaces filled (6 groups total).  Join to third chain of first dc with a slip stitch.
Round 3:  Slip stitch into the first chain 2 space.  Chain 3 - counts as your first dc.  Make 6 more dc into the same chain 2 space.  Chain 1.  *Make 7 dc into the next chain 2 space, chain 1.  Repeat from * until you have all 6 chain 2 spaces filled (6 groups in total). Join to third chain of first dc with a slip stitch. Fasten off.
Round 4:  Attach yellow into the first dc of any group from the previous round.  Chain 3 - counts as your first double crochet (dc).  Dc into the remaining 6 dc of that group.  Dc down to round 2 twice, between the last dc of one group and the first dc of the next group.  (See photo below)  *Dc in first dc of next group, dc in each of the remaining 6 dc.  Dc down to round 2 again twice.  Repeat from * 4 more times.  Join to first dc with a slip stitch.  Fasten off.  







Here's how the poppy should look:


I'm working on a spring project that uses these and have two down and ... I'm not sure how many to go!  Stay tuned!


Happy Creating!  Deborah

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