Here is a step-by-step tutorial for making the crochet motif shown in your picture — a 3D looped petal flower motif (often called popcorn loops or layered bubble petals).

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🌼 3D Looped Petal Motif — FULL DETAILED TUTORIAL

🧶 YARN & HOOK

• Inner color = white
• Outer loops = green or orange
• Hook = 2.0–3.5 mm

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⭐ ROUND 1 — CENTER BASE (WHITE)

We will create a normal flat circle.

1. Make a magic ring.
2. Ch 2 (counts as first hdc).
3. Work 11 hdc into the ring.
4. Pull ring closed.
5. Join with slip stitch to top of ch-2.

✔ You now have 12 stitches total.

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⭐ ROUND 2 — WHITE PUFF BALLS

This makes the small white bumps inside each petal.

Repeat the steps below in every stitch (12 times):

1. Insert hook into next stitch.
2. Make 1 puff stitch:
   • Yarn over
   • Insert hook, pull up a loop
   • Repeat 4 times (total 5 loops on hook)
   • Yarn over, pull through all loops
3. Ch 1 to lock puff.
4. Move to next stitch.

✔ You will now see 12 white puff balls forming a ring.

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⭐ ROUND 3 — FIRST LAYER OF LOOPS (GREEN/ORANGE)

Cut white yarn & attach green/orange into any ch-1 space between two white puffs.

For each ch-1 space (12 spaces):

1. Insert hook into space.
2. Ch 6
3. Slip stitch into next ch-1 space.
4. Repeat around.

✔ Now you have 12 loops, evenly spaced.
These loops sit above the white puff balls.

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⭐ ROUND 4 — SECOND LAYER OF LOOPS (BEHIND FIRST)

This round creates the 3D effect.

Important:
Work behind the first row of loops, in the SAME ch-1 spaces between puffs.

In every space:

1. Insert hook behind the green loop.
2. Ch 8 (longer loop).
3. Slip stitch into next space (behind next loop).

Repeat 12 times.

✔ Now you have 24 loops total:

• 12 front loops (shorter)
• 12 back loops (longer)

This gives the “flower petal” shape.

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⭐ ROUND 5 — THIRD LAYER (BIGGER LOOP PETALS)

(You only do this if you want the motif the size of the orange one.)

Still working behind the previous loops:

1. Insert hook behind the 2nd green loop row.
2. Ch 10
3. Slip stitch into next space.

Repeat 12 times.

✔ Now you have 36 loops (3 rows × 12 each).
This forms a large, round, 3D layered flower.

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⭐ FINISHING

• Fasten off.
• Weave ends tightly behind loops.
• Shape loops with your fingers.

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🌼 WHAT YOUR WORK SHOULD LOOK LIKE AFTER EACH ROUND

Round 2:

White center with 12 small puff bumps.

Round 3:

Green circle of 12 small loops around the puffs.

Round 4:

A larger second set of loops behind the first.

Round 5:

Outer large loops forming the full circular flower (like the orange example).

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