How to crochet lavender - A simple tutorial.

 

Hi peeps! 

Hot dang, it's been a moment hasn't it. 2 years since my last pattern.

But that's ok. Sometimes you need a break to find your crojo, and my gosh, mine has come flying on back lately!

I've decided I need to take a break from designing preemie items for a bit. Honestly, my heart and my head were just so overwhelmed, and it burnt me out pretty badly. The positive side to that is, I've spent some time exploring other types of crochet and boy do I have some fun stuff to share with you all!

Today, I want to show you how to crochet lavender! I've been making flower bouquets lately and I really wanted to include some. I tried a couple of patterns but I couldn't find something that worked the way I wanted it to, so in typical me style, I tossed the lot and came up with my own pattern. I wasn't going to bother much with sharing this one but there was quite a lot of interest in a fantastic crochet group I'm in so here it is for everyone that wants to have a crack at making it themselves. 

Not that it's much of a pattern, it's only 3 rows, if you count the chains! I'll include some pictures of construction but honestly these are super simple. They take no time at all to whip up. Let's go make some!

Supplies

• Wooden Skewers
• Florist Tape in green
• Scissors
• Glue - I use clear dry quick set fabric glue but a hot glue gun would work fine too.
• 3.5mm hook
• Purple yarn in either worsted/10ply or dk/8ply weight

To make your stem: Wrap the florist tape around a wooden skewer. 

To make the lavender:

1. Chain 60
2. sc in the second ch from hook and each ch across
3. ch3, turn, dc in the next stitch *ch3, slst in the 3rd ch from hook, dc in the next stitch* repeat across until you reach the end. End off. This will be the row that faces outwards as the stitches look nicer once wrapped.
   

You can choose to weave in your ends or you can glue them down when you attach the flower to the stem. I glue them, I like the way it looks at the base of the flower piece. 

So now you need to take your skewer and glue. Make sure you have the first row at the bottom and that the 3rd row is facing so that it will be the outside when you wrap, and run a bead of glue along the edge of the dc on the end of the piece. 

Place your skewer on the glue, fold the yarn piece slightly and hold in place until the glue is dry enough to keep it there. Run a few cm of glue down your stem and start wrapping the flower piece around and down the skewer. Keep adding small runs of glue and wrapping your flower around the stem. When you get to the end you can either wrap the tail of the yarn around the base of the flower a few times with some glue or you can wait for your flower to dry and then weave the end back through the flower. 

And that is it lovelies, I told you it was simple! Different thicknesses of yarn will give you different looking lavender. The dark purple I used was worsted weight (Red Heart SS), the 2 thin lighter coloured lavender was made with DK (Moda Vera/ 4 Seasons, Marvel) and the middle purple was a mystery yarn from my stash that I'd rate as an 8ply/DK but it was thicker than Marvel. 

You can also change the overall length of your lavender simply by chaining more or less, and if you wanted to get really fancy, you could absolutely make it 2 toned by doing either the 3rd row with an alternate colour, OR you could do part of the 3rd row with an alternate colour so just the tip is different. Have fun with it!