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Flower Pot crochet amigurumi pattern

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Abbreviations

Skills needed

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beg BO dc dr

Stuffing

- begin, beginning - bind off - double crochet - double ring: prevents holes at beginning of work: to make a double ring wrap yarn around your finger two times, remove resulting loops from finger and start crocheting desired number of stitches into these loops. Holding the stitches firmly with one hand, pull on the yarn tail with the other. One after the other both loops will drawn closed. Insert a marker at the beginning/end of the round. hdc - half double crochet m2 - make 2, i.e. make two single crochets into one stitch sc - single crochet sc2tog - decrease 1 stitch

Finished size

also this pattern is amigurumi style, which is spiral rounds, keep crocheting in the round without joining!

You need to know how to make a single crochet and how to increase / decrease a stitch

Yarn requirements

Use whatever yarn U like, try everything you can find. You might result in something very adorable. I use catania from Schachenmayr. It is a 100 % cotton yarn and a typical yarn to make potholders from.

Needles

Use the needle size to obtain gauge given on your yarn. If you find your tension to be very loose try using a needle size smaller. It is important to make tight stitches due to a firm and substantial form of your doll. You will only stuff the stems and pistils in this project. Don’t overstuff because the stems will let stuffing shine through easily. The finished size of your amigurumi flower pot goes hand in hand with the yarn and needle you choose. However using a 3.5 mm needle you will receive flowers app. 8“ / 20cm high and max. 4“ / 10cm wide.

Final Tip

Use a row counter or something else to keep track with your finished rounds.

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First Flower / Big Petals

Leaves

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extra, make 2

pistil and stem

1 make a dr with 4sts 2 sc1, m2, sc2 3 sc2, m2, sc2 4 (sc2, m2) x2 5 (sc3, m2) x2 6 (sc4, m2) x2 7 (sc5, m2) x2 8 sc5, m2, sc6, m2, sc1 9 sc6, m2, sc7, m2, sc1 10 sc7, m2, sc8, m2, sc1 11 sc8, m2, sc9, m2, sc1 make 3 rows (sc22) 15 (sc9, sc2tog) x2 16 sc1 and place marker to start a new round, don't turn 17 (sc8, sc2tog) x2 18 (sc2tog, sc5, sc2tog) x2 19 (sc2tog, sc3, sc2tog) x2 BO -- cut yarn with app. 16inch/ 40cm

start with a nice (pale) yelllow 1 make a dr with 6 sts 2 m2 x6 3 (m2, sc1) x6 4 sc1, (m2, sc2) x5, m2, sc1 5 (m2, sc7) x3 6 sc4, (m2, sc8) x2, m2, sc4 make 1 row (sc24) change color to green make 1 row (sc24) 9 (sc2tog, sc3) x6 10 (sc2, sc2tog) x6 11 (sc2tog, sc4) x3 make 1 row (sc15) 13 sc2tog x7, sc1 make 41 rows (8sts), or as long as you would like the stem to be don't BO yet - cut yarn with app. 2m (3 arm's length) tail

Petals

extra, make 6

stuffing: start stuffing when you have

made a few rounds of the stem (not too many though); stuff the pistil pretty tight, I tend to overstuff, but when stuffing the stem don't stuff so tight the filling might shine through

1 make a dr with 6 sts 2 m2 x6 3 (sc4, m2, m2) x2 4 sc5, m2, m2, sc6, m2, m2, sc1 5 sc7, m2, sc9, m2, sc2 6 sc8, m2, sc10, m2, sc2 make 2 rows (sc24)

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Leaves

9 sc8, sc2tog, sc10, sc2tog, sc2 10 sc8, sc2tog, sc9, sc2tog, sc1 11 (sc8, sc2tog) x2 12 sc1 and pM to start a new round, don't turn 13 (sc5, sc2tog, sc2tog) x2 14 sc1 and pM to start a new round, don't turn 15 (sc3, sc2tog, sc2tog) x2 BO -- cut yarn with app. 16inch/ 40cm

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extra, make 2 1 make a dr with 4 sts 2 sc1, m2, sc2 3 sc2, m2, sc2 4 (sc2, m2) x2 5 (sc3, m2) x2 6 (sc4, m2) x2 7 (sc5, m2) x2 8 sc5, m2, sc6, m2, sc1 9 sc6, m2, sc7, m2, sc1 make 2 rows (sc18) 12 (sc7, sc2tog) x2 13 sc1 and place marker to start a new round, don't turn 14 (sc6, sc2tog) x2 15 (sc2tog, sc3, sc2tog) x2 BO

Second Flower / Thin Petals pistil and stem start with a nice (pale) yellow 1 make a dr with 6 sts 2 m2 x6 3 (m2, sc1) x6 4 (m2, sc5) x3 5 sc4, (m2, sc6) x2, m2, sc2 make 1 row (sc24) change color to green make 1 row (sc24) 8 (sc2tog, sc2) x6 9 (sc2tog, sc1) x6 10 sc2tog x2, sc1, sc2tog x3, sc1

Petals

extra, make 8 1 make a dr with 6 sts 2 (sc1, m2, m2) x2 3 sc3, m2, sc4, m2, sc1 4 sc4, m2, sc5, m2, sc1 make 2 rows (sc14) 7 (sc5, sc2tog) x2 make 1 row (sc12) 9 sc1 and place marker to start a new round, don't turn

make 36 rows (7 sts), or as long as you would like the stem to be don't BO yet - cut yarn with app. 2m (3 arm's lenght) tail

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bud leave and stem

10 (sc4, sc2tog) x2 make 1 row (sc10) 12 sc1 and place marker to start a new round, don't turn 13 (sc3, sc2tog) x2 make 1 row (sc8) BO -- cut yarn with app. 16inch/ 40cm

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make a slip knot 1 chain 22 turn and start in second back 'loop' from beginning: 2 sc21, join round continue in spiral rounds 3 sc5, esc2, hdc1, dc3, hdc1, esc2, sc6 4 sc4, esc1, hdc2, dc2tog, dc2, dc2tog, hdc2, esc1, sc5 5 sc1, sc2tog, esc2, esc2tog, hdc1, dc2tog, hdc1, esc2tog, esc2, sc2tog, sc2 6 sc2tog x7 continue making rows of sc7 to create a stem after you made the first 2 or 3 rows sew the green leave to the bud, use some extra yarn the same color as your stem and sew one time around the bud and one time around the beginning of the stem to really secure the bud to the stem make 35 rows (sc7) total

to make a gradient, add different colored yarn in round 11, now make the row but with changing colors for each stitch ( » alternate yarn color for each stitch), in round 12 cut the first color and continue working with your new yarn.

Third Flower / Bud Bud

use a petal like color 1 make a dr with 6 sts 2 (sc1, m2) x3 3 (m2, sc2) x3 4 (sc3, m2) x3 make 1 row 6 sc2, (m2, sc4) x2, m2, sc2 make 1 row 8 (m2, sc5) x3 make 1 row 10 (sc2tog, sc5) x3 make 1 row 12 sc3, (sc2tog, sc4) x2, sc2tog, sc1 make 1 row 14 (sc2tog, sc3) x3 15 sc2tog x6 BO

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Leaves

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how to attach the petals to the pistil

extra, make 1 1 make a dr with 4 sts 2 sc1, m2, sc2 3 sc2, m2, sc2 4 (sc2, m2) x2 5 (sc3, m2) x2 6 (sc4, m2) x2 7 (sc5, m2) x2 8 (sc6, m2) x2 make 2 rows (sc16) 11 (sc6, sc2tog) x2 12 sc1 and place marker to start a new round, don't turn 13 (sc5, sc2tog) x2 14 (sc2tog, sc2, sc2tog) x2 BO

To attach the leaves simply flatten them just like described for the petals and sew them to their stems, about half way between pistil and end of stem. Now you should have all three flowers sewn together - - it is time to make a lawn. This isn’t a “real” pattern, it’s quite free form but I give you what I did and hope it works for you as well.

Assembling the Flowers First sew the petals to the pistils:

Lawn

Therefore flatten the petals (and leaves later as well) simply by folding along the increases resp. decreases, they should be on top of each other and therefore the petal / leave should fold by itself. For attaching them to the pistil simply lay them flat and close to the middle of pistil and sew them.

First continue at ends of each stem: 1 m2 in every sc 2 (m2, sc1) until end of row Now you will need to attach all flowers together. I hope the picture next page clarifies what I mean. There will be stitches of every flower that you don't crochet anymore, so you continue to crochet around the first flower about two thirds - then add the

I've sewn them where yellow and green meet hope the picture next column makes clear what I mean.

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also I added bobbles of different sizes wherever I liked to add some texture to the lawn, I think it resembles some kind of grass.

second flower and crochet another two thirds around, add the third flower and you got all flowers 'bond' together. in this third row increase like following: (sc2, m2) till end of whole row (which is all three flowers for each about two thirds of the circumference)

Now we want to make a ball of earth, that the lawn will be sewn to and that will help our flowers to stay up in the pottery. This earth ball is supposed to fit into a bulbous pot, you might need to change the pattern, that I give here, see next page. what I did: the Ball of Earth 1 make 6 sc into dr 2 (m2) x6 3 (m2, sc1) x6 4 (m2, sc2) x6 5 (m2, sc3) x6 6 sc2, (m2, sc4) x5, m2, sc2 7 (m2, sc5) x6 8 sc3, (m2, sc6) x5, m2, sc3 9 (m2, sc7) x6 make 6 rows (sc54) 16 (sc2tog, sc7) x6 17 sc3, (sc2tog, sc6) x5, sc2tog, sc3 make 5 rows (sc42) 23 (sc2tog, sc5) x6 24 (sc2tog, sc4) x6 25 (sc2tog, sc3) x6 26 (sc2tog, sc2) x6 27 (sc2tog, sc1) x6 stuff 28 sc2tog x6 BO

now increase every other row like follows: (sc3, m2) in the fourth row (sc4, m2) in the fifth row (sc5, m2) in the sixth row and so on until you have the lawn size you desire. When you reached your desired width stop increasing and make two more rows. NOTE: when being "between two flowers" (i.e.. in the valley of a row) I decreased a few stitches, also I found to decrease with dc instead of sc to be quite useful, since the row itself would become more even, so your lawn will become more of a circle than this roller coaster rows (hope you can understand what I mean)

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what you might change:

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a very useful tip: don't forget to stuff the full length of your stems before you sew them to the earth ball, otherwise you a) can un-sew it from the earth or b) like I did, push stuffing through the little holes between the crochet stitches very carefully

if your flower pot has a bigger circumference at the bottom, you might need to increase one or two more rows. the circle made should be almost as big as the bottom of your flower pot, but not equally big or even bigger. It will stretch when stuffed. Then just make several rows until the height of your crochet will be as high as the pot you use. If your flower pot has a tapering form you also should increase one row in the middle of your crochet (six increases evenly spread) or one row every third part of your flower pot. When reached the desired height just decrease six stitches every row (see row 16 and following).

Now all that is left to do is push some florists wire into the stems. Start at pistils of flowers and stick it through the whole length of the stem right into the earth ball. Bend top endings of wire a little so you can screw it into the pistils carefully and it won’t come out by itself. I needed three to four pieces of wire per flower, but it depends on the strength of your wire.

You're done!

Now you’re really finished Don’t water it, it will bloom anyhow

Best Diana

How to sew the flowers including the lawn to the earth ball? just do it! Use leftovers from lawn yarn and seam around. BO and hide yarn ends inside.

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