Flower accents

I've tried making flowers a ton of different ways for different projects I've worked on. This is, by far, my favorite pattern.

This one I did not creatively change in any way. It is a straight copy of a red heart pattern, but below you will see my photos of the pattern as I go and how to work through some of the slight speed bumps you might face.


Notes:
One of the sts in this pattern was one I wasn't familiar with, a treble stitch (abbreviated tr). It is just like a double crochet, but one more. Let me explain. When you do a double crochet, you YO, insert hook, YO and pull through, YO and drop 2 loops, YO and drop 2 loops. For the treble, you YO YO, insert hook, YO and pull through, YO and drop 2 loops, YO and drop 2 loops, YO and drop 2 loops. So, you wrap one time extra and grab and drop one time extra. In theory, you could do this as many times as you want and just make the stitch longer and longer. But for this pattern you only need the tr as I've described it above.

Pattern:

Ch 6, sl st to form a loop

RND 1: Chain 5. *Dc, ch 2** repeat from * to ** five times. Sl st in chain 5 to finish round. Should have a circle with 6 posts (looks kind of like spokes in a wheel).

RND 2: Chain 1. In ch sp from below: *sc, hdc, dc, tr, dc, hdc, sc.** to make a petal. Repeat * to ** in each chain space. Sl st in chain 1 to finish off round.

RND 3: Ch 1.  Flip flower forward so you are looking at the back. Sc around the post created in RND 1. Ch 3. Repeat around each post and sl st to finish.

 Reaching behind the flower to sc in the post

After the first ch 3 is finished

The back of the flower after all the Sc CH combos have been done.

RND 4:  Ch 1. In the ch spaces made by RND 3: sc, hdc, dc, tr, tr, tr, dc, hdc, sc to make a petal. Repeat in each ch sp around. Sl st in ch 1 to finish round. Notice you are doing the same thing from RND 2, you are just adding 2 more tr sts.

What a finished RND 4 looks like.

RND 5: Ch 1. Sc around post from RND 3. Ch 4. Repeat around and sl st in ch 1 to finish off. This is the same as RND 3 except you add a extra ch in each ch sp.

RND 6: Ch 1. In ch spaces made by RND 5: sc, hdc, dc, tr, tr, tr, tr, tr, dc, hdc, sc to make a petal. Repeat in each ch sp around. Sl st in ch 1 to finish round. Fasten off. Again, this is the same as RND 4, but you add 2 more tr sts. Even though I ended my flower here, you could, in theory, keep going with it forever. For each sc and ch round you would add another ch, and in each petal round you would add another 2 tr sts.

Finished flower after RND 6.

These are super easy to make and VERY cute.