Flower Earrings | DKO designs

Woof and Welcome to the second Flower Earring lesson. I’m Olive the dog, and today I’m going to show you how to make a foundation ring and crochet in a round. Sound good? Let’s go.

The first step in this pattern is to make 4 chain stitches. I’m making a pair of blue earrings here.

To start you do your foundation chain. Then when you’ve done that you find the first chain you made, and you slip stitch (sl st) into it to form a ring.

Next we move onto Round 1, which just happens to be the only round in this pattern. We do 5 chain stitches to make a petal, and complete it with a single crochet (sc) stitch into the ring.

When doing the sc stitch we put the hook into the centre of the ring and draw the yarn around the whole edge of the ring instead of through a single stitch.

And then we do another 5 ch and a sc!

Once we’ve made 6 petals in this way we cut the yarn and make a knot in the last sc.

Then we use the needle to sew in the ends. (for further instruction on sewing in ends see Eyelet Scarf Tutorial – 6. Finishing off!)

Until next time…. Woof!

OLIVE

Woof and Welcome to the second beginner tutorial. This duo of lessons is on making Flower Earrings. Here’s one all finished, pretty isn’t it?

Oh, I forgot to mention, I’m Olive the dog, I’m a beginner hooker and I’m sharing my lessons with you as I go.

First of all, if you don’t have a copy of the pattern you can download it for free here.

Pattern BEG002 Flower Earrings

To start with we shall read through the pattern so we understand what is expected of us.

Firstly we need to know how to make chain stitches, single crochet stitches and slip stitches. If you don’t know how to make these stitches run along to our BEGINNER STITCH GUIDE and get some lessons from the experts.

The other two skills are working in a round which will be covered in this tutorial and sewing in ends, which we covered with the Eyelet Scarf Tutorial – 6. Finishing Off!

You will also need:

A 6mm crochet hook
Some 8ply yarn in a nice color for flowers
2 earring hooks also known as shepherd hooks
A needle to sew in the ends and attach the earrings to their hooks
A pair of scissors

This pattern might seem strange, but it is really not hard to understand when you know how to look at it – trust me!

Firstly we’ll read the written pattern then we’ll look at the pattern chart.

There is a foundation chain which creates a ring. Then there is 1 round, which is like a row around that ring.

In the round there is a sequence within brackets (ch 5, sc into ring) and an instruction to do it 6 times. This means that you do 5 chain stitches, a single crochet into ring, ch 5, sc into ring, etc until you have 6 sets.

If we look at the pattern chart, we can see that each of those sets of 5 ch creates a petal of the flower and the sc attaches the petal to the centre ring.

That doesn’t sound too hard to me! What do you think?? Ready to give it a go?

Until next time…. Woof!

OLIVE

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