Here is a beginner-friendly, step-by-step tutorial for making the exact stitch in the photo.
This is the 2-Color Puffy Flower Stitch (each flower has 4 petals/puffs).

I will explain EXACT positions to insert your hook, how many loops to pull, and how to build each row.

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🔶 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• How to start foundation chain
• How to make puff stitches correctly
• How 4 puffs form 1 flower
• How to place puffs on the next row to form new flowers
• How to switch colors cleanly

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🧶 STITCHES USED

✔ Puff Stitch (4-pull puff)

1. Yarn over
2. Insert hook
3. Pull up a loop (tall)
   → Repeat 4 times (you will have 9 loops on your hook)
4. Yarn over, pull through all loops
5. Chain 1 to close the puff

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🟤🟡 COLOR NAMES (for clarity)

• Color A = Brown
• Color B = Yellow

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⭐ STEP 1 — Foundation Chain

Make a chain in multiples of 4 + 2.
Example:

4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 2 = 18 chains

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⭐ STEP 2 — Row 1 (Brown Flowers Base Row)

🔸 Start First Flower

1. Skip 2 chains
2. In 3rd chain → make puff stitch
3. Chain 1
4. In next chain → puff
5. Chain 1
6. In next chain → puff
7. Chain 1
8. In next chain → puff
   👉 These 4 puffs = 1 flower

🔸 Continue to Next Flower

You now repeat this set:

(ch 1) + puff in next chain
(ch 1) + puff in next chain
(ch 1) + puff in next chain
(ch 1) + puff in next chain

Repeat all the way across Row 1.

Cut yarn. Switch to yellow.

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⭐ STEP 3 — Row 2 (Yellow Flowers on Top)

Turn your work.

🔸 Where to insert your hook:

In Row 2 you do NOT work into the chains anymore.

Instead, you work into the spaces BETWEEN the puff stitches (also called “puff gaps”).

Each previous flower has 4 gaps around it, like this:

  (gap1)   (gap2)
   [puff][puff]
   [puff][puff]
  (gap4)   (gap3)

🔸 Start Row 2

Attach yellow yarn into the first gap between 1st and 2nd puff of Row 1.

1. Chain 2 (just to get height)
2. Yarn over → insert hook into Gap 1 → make puff
3. Chain 1
4. Into Gap 2 → puff
5. Chain 1
6. Into Gap 3 → puff
7. Chain 1
8. Into Gap 4 → puff

👉 You now have 1 yellow flower sitting on top of the brown ones.

🔸 Continue Across

Each new flower uses the 4 gaps around one old flower.

Repeat:

puff (gap1)
ch 1
puff (gap2)
ch 1
puff (gap3)
ch 1
puff (gap4)

Continue until end of row.

Cut yarn.

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⭐ STEP 4 — Row 3 (Brown Again)

Turn your work.

Repeat exactly Row 2 instructions:

• Insert hook into gaps between yellow puffs
• Make 4 puff stitches → 1 brown flower
• Work across the row

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🔁 Repeat Rows

Row 4 = Yellow
Row 5 = Brown
Row 6 = Yellow
… and so on.

The pattern will naturally build a checkerboard of flowers exactly like your picture.

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⭐ HOW TO KEEP PERFECT FLOWER SHAPE

✔ Make puffs tall (pull loops up evenly)
✔ Don’t tighten the ch-1 too much
✔ Keep puff size consistent
✔ Use medium-weight yarn (4ply) with 3.5–4.5 mm hook

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