How To... Make The Mollie Makes Crochet Flower...

 Crochet Flower Project - Anna Rakoniewska for Mollie Make Magazine

You Will Need...

4mm Crochet Hook

Your choice of woolen yarn

Crochet Stitches...

ch... Pass hook under yarn and catch yarn with hook, draw yarn through loop on hook (repeat to chain) 

dc... Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, draw back through stitch (2 loops on hook), yarn over, draw yarn through both loops on hook (1 loop remains on hook)

tr... Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, draw back through stitch (three loops on hook), yarn over, draw yarn through 2 loops on hook, yarn over, draw yarn through last two loops on hook (1 loop remains on hook)

ss... Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, draw loop back through stitch and loop on hook
 

 After my post showing off the lovely Mollie Makes crochet flower I made, I received a few comments and emails from followers having difficulties with the making of their own Mollie Makes flower...

Although this is not my design, I decided to put together this post to show you how I went about completing the project...

 

To begin... ch1... 

then 6dc into first ch...

Pull yarn tail to close hole in ring...

Now... add a stitch marker using a scrap of different coloured wool...

Working into the loops around the outside only...

...work 2dc into the first stitch

...1dc into the next stitch

Repeat this twice more

(you will have 9st around the outside of your circle, as in picture)

Move your stitch marker to this point

 Working into the loops around the outside only...

...work 2dc into the first stitch

...1dc into second stitch

...1dc into third stitch

Repeat this twice more

(you will have 12st around the outside of your circle, as in picture)

Move your stitch marker to this point

Working into the loops around the outside only...

...work 2dc into the first stitch

...1dc into second stitch

...1dc into third stitch

...1dc into forth stitch

Repeat this twice more

(you will have 15st around the outside of your circle, as in picture)

Move your stitch marker to this point

To start the spiral on the front of the flower...

You will be working into both loops around the outside of the circle and the unused loops spiralling the centre of the of the circle...

 ch2...

...and work 1tr into the same stitch

...1tr into the next stitch

...work 2tr into the next stitch

...1tr into the next stitch

Repeat this until you reach the last stitch on the outside of your circle

...just before your stitch marker

(this is what your work will look like)

You will then work into the first unused loop nearest to you...

(in the centre of your work)

...work 2tr into the first stitch

...1tr into the next stitch

Repeat this until you reach the last stitch at the spiral base, in the centre of your work...

(your work should now look like this)

Now you will be working outwards from the centre of the spiral, creating the petals of the flower...

First... ch2...

...miss the first stitch

...1dc into the second stitch

...miss the third

...2tr into the forth

...miss the fifth

...1dc into the sixth

then... miss the seventh stitch

...3tr into the eighth stitch

...miss the ninth

...1dc into the tenth

Repeat this again

now... miss the next stitch

...4tr into the next stitch

...miss the next

...1dc into the next

Repeat this twice more

...miss the next stitch

...5tr into the next stitch

...miss the next

...1dc into the next

Repeat this three more times

You will now have the back of your work facing you...

...miss the next stitch

...6tr into the next stitch

...miss the next

...1dc into the next

Repeat this four more times

Once you reach the end of your flower remove your stitch marker... 

...cut your yarn and fasten off...

I then finished my flower by darning in the loose yarn... and attaching the brooch pin...

I hope this little tutorial has helped you out!.. Please leave a comment and let me know how you get on :)