Wonderful Crochet puff flower

The image shows a crocheted puff flower being made — a soft, 3D flower with thick petals, often used for decorations, blankets, or accessories. Here’s how to make it step-by-step:

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🧶 Materials Needed

• Yarn: Two colors (one for flower center, one for petals)
• Crochet hook: Size appropriate for your yarn (usually 3.0 mm – 4.0 mm for medium yarn)
• Scissors
• Tapestry needle (for weaving ends)

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🌸 Step-by-Step Tutorial: 3D Puff Stitch Flower

Step 1: Make the Flower Center

1. Magic Ring:
   Wrap the yarn around your fingers to make a small loop.
   Insert your hook into the loop, yarn over, and pull through a loop.
2. Chain 1 to secure the ring.
3. 6 Single Crochets (sc) into the ring:
   Insert your hook into the ring, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over again, pull through both loops on the hook.
   Repeat this 6 times.
4. Tighten the Ring: Pull the short yarn tail to close the circle.
5. Slip Stitch into the first single crochet to close the round.

👉 You now have a small circle of 6 stitches — the base where you’ll make the petals.

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Step 2: Start the First Petal (Puff Stitch Petal)

1. Change Color (optional):
   Attach your petal color yarn in any stitch from the center.
2. Chain 1 to start.
3. Forming the Petal:
   • Yarn over.
   • Insert the hook into the same stitch.
   • Yarn over again and pull up a long loop (about 2 cm).
   • Repeat this 5 more times (total 6 loops pulled up).
     ➜ Each time you insert the hook in the same stitch and pull up a long loop.
     ➜ The loops on the hook will look thick and fluffy (like in your photo).
   You’ll now have many loops on the hook — usually 12 loops (if counting both the original loop and the yarn-overs).
4. Close the Puff:
   • Yarn over once more.
   • Carefully pull through all the loops on the hook at once.
   • Chain 1 to secure the top.

✅ That’s one puff petal done.

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Step 3: Make the Remaining Petals

1. Move to the Next Stitch on the flower center.
2. Repeat the same puff stitch process:
   • Yarn over, insert into stitch, pull up long loop — repeat 6 times.
   • Yarn over and pull through all loops.
   • Chain 1 to lock.
3. Keep repeating in each of the 6 base stitches around the circle.

✅ You’ll end up with 6 thick puff petals forming a full, round flower.

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Step 4: Finishing

1. When the last petal is done, join with a slip stitch to the bottom of the first petal.
2. Cut the yarn, leaving a small tail.
3. Pull the yarn through the loop and tighten to fasten off.
4. Use a tapestry needle to weave in all loose ends neatly.

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🌼 Optional Decoration:

• Add a button or bead in the center.
• Use green yarn to crochet leaves.
• Sew the flower onto bags, hats, headbands, blankets, etc.

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🧩 Tips for Perfect Petals

• Keep loops the same height for uniform petals.
• Don’t pull too tightly — puff stitches need space to stay fluffy.
• You can make larger petals by wrapping more times (e.g., 8–10 loops).

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