These Ruffled Crochet Flowers are very easy and would make the perfect addition to any project, especially a Christmas project.  They take about 15 minutes to whip up and the ruffled edges give them a fair bit of texture.  The center is quite plain, but that is easily remedied by attaching a button to the middle of the flower.

You can, of course, make these with yellow centers and two-tone petals, but I think this pattern lends itself better to the simplistic two-tone approach I have taken.

I hope you have fun with this pattern.  If anything is unclear, please feel free to contact me by leaving a comment below.

Ruffled Crochet Flower

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Abbreviations

US Crochet Terminology Used

Materials

• Double knit yarn (light worsted weight/#3) in red and cream – a few yards each
• 4 mm crochet hook (US 6/G UK 8) 
• Yarn needle

Notes

You will need to know how to make a standing double crochet stitch.  See this excellent tutorial by Tamara from Moogly if you don’t know what a standing double crochet is or how to make it.

Instructions 

1. With cream yarn and working into a magic ring:  ch 1, 6 x sc.  (6)
2. Sc inc x 6.  (12)
3. *Sc inc, sc* x 6.  Join to the next st with a sl st (Photo 1).  (18)
4. Ch 2.  *3 x dc in the front loop only of the next st, 3 x dc into the back loop only of the next st* x 9.  You will be making your last 3-dc cluster into the back end of the slip stitch join, which is quite tight.  Join to the first dc with a sl st.  Bind off (Photos 2 and 3). 
5. Change to red yarn.  Starting with a standing double crochet (Photo 4), 3 x dc into the back loop only of the first st of round 3 (so behind the first 3-dc cluster of round 4 – see Photos 5 and 6).  3 x dc into the front loop only of the next st of round 3 (so in front of the second 3-dc cluster of round 4 – see Photos 7 and 8).  *3 x dc in the back loop only of the next st, 3 x dc into the front loop only of the next st* x 8 (Photos 9 and 10).  Join to the first st (the standing double crochet) with a sl st (Photo 11).  Bind off and work away your tails of yarn.

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