Great choice 🌸 I’ll explain stitch by stitch, so you can follow easily even if you are a beginner.
This is a 3-layer crochet flower:
- Center ring
- Inner (white) petals
- Outer (pink/blue) petals
🧶 MATERIALS
- Yarn (medium / 4-ply or milk cotton)
- Yellow = center
- White = inner petals
- Pink or Blue = outer petals
- Crochet hook: 3.0 mm (2.5–3.5 mm is OK)
- Scissors
- Yarn needle
📌 CROCHET TERMS (US)
- ch = chain
- sl st = slip stitch
- sc = single crochet
- hdc = half double crochet
- dc = double crochet
- tr = treble crochet
- MR = magic ring
🌼 STEP 1: CENTER CIRCLE (YELLOW)
- Make a magic ring
- Ch 1 (does NOT count as a stitch)
- Work 8 sc into the ring
- Pull ring tight
- Sl st into first sc to close the round
👉 You now have 8 stitches
✂️ Cut yarn and fasten off
🌸 STEP 2: INNER PETALS (WHITE – 6 PETALS)
Join yarn
- Insert hook into any stitch of the yellow center
- Pull up white yarn
- Ch 1 to secure
🔁 INNER PETAL PATTERN (work in ONE stitch)
ch 2
2 hdc
1 dc
2 hdc
ch 2
sl st (same stitch)
✔ This makes 1 petal
How to continue
- Move to the next stitch
- Repeat the same petal pattern
- Continue until you have 6 petals
⚠️ You may skip every other stitch to keep petals neat
Finish inner layer
- Sl st to first stitch
- Fasten off white yarn
👉 You now have a flat flower with white petals
🌺 STEP 3: OUTER PETALS (PINK / BLUE – BACK SIDE)
This layer is worked behind the white petals
Join yarn
- Turn flower to the back
- Insert hook between two yellow stitches
- Pull up pink/blue yarn
- Ch 1 to secure
🔁 OUTER PETAL PATTERN (repeat 6 times)
Work into the back spaces
ch 3
2 dc
2 tr
2 dc
ch 3
sl st
👉 This creates a big, curved petal
Move to next petal
- Sl st into next back space
- Repeat pattern
Finish
- Sl st to first stitch
- Fasten off
- Weave in all yarn ends
🌷 FINAL TOUCH
- Gently pull petals outward
- Adjust layers so white petals sit inside
- Shape petals with fingers
📏 SIZE GUIDE
| Hook | Yarn | Flower Size |
|---|---|---|
| 2.5 mm | Thin | Small |
| 3.0 mm | Medium | Same as photo |
| 3.5 mm | Thick | Large |
💡 TIPS
✔ If flower curls → use bigger hook
✔ If petals are loose → use smaller hook
✔ For fuller flower → add 3 tr instead of 2