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Crochet Mollie Flowers ref: littlegreen.typepad.com |
| Mollie Flowers: Magic Loop | |||||||||||
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1. Loop the wool once around your finger |
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2. Put your hook through the loop, bring through the long wool length, then pull through yarn again |
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3. Single crochet around the loop | ||||||
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4. Single crochet around the loop, until you have five stitches on the loop |  |
5. Pull the short length of wool and the stitches will start to curl – pull it tight |  |
6. Slip stitch into the first single crochet to create a firm circle | ||||||
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7. Cut wool and pull through stitch |  |
8. Although you have 5 stitches the casting off splits a stitch in two, so the 5 stitches gives you six finished stitches | ||||||||
| Mollie Flowers: The Flower | |||||||||||
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1. Crochet into the first stitch |  |
2. Chain 3 stitches |  |
3. Insert the hook into the first stitch, wrap the wool over the hook, draw a loop |
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4. Wrap the wool over (3 loops on hook). The wrapped over wool creates the extra loop on hook |
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5. Insert the hook through the first stitch and draw a second loop through (4 loops on hook) |
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6. Wrap the wool over (5 loops on hook). The wrapped over wool creates the extra loop on hook |
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7. Insert the hook through the first stitch and draw a third loop through (6 loops on hook) |  |
8. Wrap the wool over (7 loops on hook). The wrapped over wool creates the extra loop on hook |  |
9. Insert the hook through the first stitch and draw a forth loop through (8 loops on hook) |
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10. Wrap the wool over (9 loops on hook). The wrapped over wool creates the extra loop on hook |  |
11. Insert the hook through the first stitch and draw a fifth loop through |
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12. Wrap the wool over | ||||||
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13. Pull the wool through all nine loops on hook |  |
14. Once pulled through you should have a small loop at the end |  |
15. Pull the long end of wool through the loop | ||||||
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16. Chain 3 |  |
17. Insert your hook back into the first stitch on the magic loop |
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18. Pull the wool through | ||||||
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19. Chain 3 |  |
20. Pull a loop through the second stitch on the magic loop and start again on your second petal (Step 4 -20 all the in the relevant stitch on the magic loop) |
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21. Complete the same procedure in each stitch – it will soon get super quick |
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22. Secure the final 3 chain with a slip stitch in stitch 6 of the magic circle and cast off |  |
23. Weave in all ends |  |
24. You should have something like <--this |
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| Mollie Flowers: Joining | |||||||||||
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1. Arrange the flowers in a line with the flat sides touching |
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2. Secure the line to the first flower |  |
3. Hold the wrong sides outwards and sew together tightly | ||||||
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4. It should look like this |  |
5. Pull wool through the flower to the next stitching point |
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6. Sew securely together | ||||||
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7. Pull wool through the flower to the next stitching point |
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8. Sew securely together |  |
9. Pull wool through the flower to the next stitching point |
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10. Now you should have rows of flowers |  |
11. Sew the two rows of flowers together starting at a point as shown |
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12. Sew securely together. Continue sewing together at each key point and running the wool through the flowers |
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