Thursday, July 28, 2011

Summer Flower Branches


An whimsical decoration for the bedroom, inspired by this sakura motif

How to make the flower (this is my interpretation of the motif, not the pattern by Yoko Johnston):
chain 4, close the chain with a slip stitch:


Chain 2, *sc, ch1* 4 times, change the color, sl st, chain 4, 2 tr in one stitch:


Chain 3, sl st. The first petal is ready. Make 4 more petals. Transfer the last sl st behind the flower:



Chain 3, sl st to connect with the opposite petal. Try to tug in the ends in the process of crocheting the flower and thus save time and effort to weave in four ends after the flower is ready:

I'm not an experienced crocheter, so making a flower took me about 6-7 min. Make as many flowers as you want:


I made about 30 and arranged them on lime-tree branches:



12 comments:

  1. That is so cool! Thank you for posting such an easy to follow tutorial. I can't wait to try this myself.

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  2. What an effective Season's tree idea, Great for Spring!
    Lovely Tutorial too
    (I found you through Creative Friday - Natural Suburbia)
    Thanks for sharing!
    ♥ Aleta

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  3. Also, it was quite exciting trying to figure out the comments form in another language! Thanks for the mental workout!

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  4. How beautiful, thanks for sharing:)

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  5. These are so pretty! Thanks for the tutorial!

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  6. hi! this is happy and beautiful and i think you are very creative! x

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  7. Completely darling, I love it! That vase is perfect.

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  8. Толкова е красиво!!! Благодаря!

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  9. I lOVE this! I think I could possibly even do this. We made some spring flower branches with little puffs of roving, so I think I need to try the summer flowers too.

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  10. Hi! I just wanted to let you know I featured you on my blog on a post I wrote about the International Women's Day. I love your flowers! Thanks for sharing...
    You can read the post here: http://www.mangoandpassionfruit.com/2013/03/flowers-on-international-womens-day.html
    Have a wonderful weekend!!
    xx

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  11. So pretty, I love this! I found you on Pinterest and linked to this page this morning on my blog: http://www.mooglyblog.com/unpinning-pinterest-for-april-2013/

    Thanks so much for sharing!

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