Bring a burst of handmade beauty to your reading sessions with this delightful crochet flower bookmark pattern. Designed to blend style and functionality, this project creates a charming floral accent that keeps your place in your favorite books.
Crochet Flower Bookmark
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced crocheter, you'll enjoy making this bookmark using colorful yarn combinations. The finished piece is perfect as a thoughtful gift, a craft fair item, or a personal reading companion. Plus, you can customize the flower and leaf colors to match your favorite palette or seasonal themes.
Materials
- Yellow yarn (for flower center)
- Pink yarn or any color of your choice (for petals)
- Green yarn (for leaf and stem)
- 4 mm crochet hook
- Yarn needle
- Scissors
Flower Center
- Start with a magic ring, leaving a longer tail.
- Work 28 half double crochets into the ring.
- Join the ring into the first half double crochet.
- Pull the tail to close the ring tightly.
- Secure and finish off the yarn.
Flower Petals
- Join your chosen color yarn into the first half double crochet where you joined before.
In the same stitch, work the following to create the first petal:
- Single crochet
- Half double crochet
- Double crochet
- Treble crochet
- Pico stitch (chain three, slip stitch into the first chain)
- Treble crochet
- Double crochet
- Half double crochet
- Single crochet
- Skip the next stitch, then slip stitch into the following stitch.
- Repeat the petal pattern (skip stitch, slip stitch, skip stitch, make petal) until you have six petals in total.
- After the sixth petal, skip one stitch, slip stitch into the next, skip one more stitch, and join into the first half double crochet where you began the petals.
- Cut the yarn and finish off.
- Weave in the ends on the back of the flower using a yarn needle.
Leaf and Stem
- Make a slip knot.
- Chain 10.
Work the first half of the leaf as follows:
- Single crochet in the first chain.
- Half double crochet in the next two chains.
- Double crochet in the next four chains.
- Half double crochet in the next chain.
- Work three single crochets in the last chain.
Working back down the chain, complete the second half of the leaf:
- Half double crochet in the next stitch.
- Double crochet in the next four stitches.
- Half double crochet in the next two stitches.
- Single crochet in the first stitch where you began.
- Join to the first single crochet to complete the leaf.
- Chain 40 to create the stem.
- Cut the yarn, leaving a longer tail for assembly.
Assembly
- Use a yarn needle to attach the stem to the back of the flower, ensuring the green yarn doesn’t show on the front.
- Weave in any remaining ends.
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