Crochet eucalyptus stem pattern — 15 pieces, 96 rounds written out
A free crochet eucalyptus stem pattern for a wired branch about 35 cm long, with large leaves around 5 cm each, worked on a 3.5 mm hook in three colours over about four hours. Seventy-eight of the ninety-six rounds are the stem, and it widens exactly three times — one increase at round 23, one at round 47 and one at round 67 — carrying it from five stitches at the tip to eight at the base. All 96 rounds are written out below across three lists that make fifteen pieces, and each one shows the stitch count it finishes on.
Maths verified, not yet made. Every one of the 96 rounds was checked against the round before it by machine — the counts, the increases and the decreases all add up. What nobody can promise you yet is how it sits in the hand.How we check
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Why it is rated Medium
Medium for length rather than technique: the stem runs seventy-eight rounds of five to eight stitches with three increases in the whole of it, and every leaf is sewn on with its own tail.
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00What you need before you start
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What you need before you start
Yarn — three colours, all weight 3
about 15 gDK cotton (weight 3), worked tight
about 25 gDK cotton (weight 3), worked tight
about 10 gDK cotton (weight 3), worked tight
Tools
5 you probably own, 2 to buyYou likely have
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Stitch markers
Measuring tape
Pins
You need to buy
20-gauge floral wire, one 40 cm length (or two 30 cm pipe cleaners twisted end to end)
Sewing thread in a matching green, for tacking the leaves before you sew them
Optional
Wire cutters, if you use floral wire rather than a pipe cleaner
A narrow vase or bottle to stand the finished branch in
Gauge and finished size
the last check before you cast onTension
Tight enough that the wire and the yarn tails do not show through the stem. Gauge is not critical here — a looser hand gives you a slightly longer branch.
Finished size
~35 cm long, each large leaf ~5 cm; the stem is ~1.4 cm across at the base
Floral wire and a twisted pair of pipe cleaners both work; the pipe cleaners are softer, so the branch droops further. Any DK green does — the branch reads as eucalyptus from the round leaves, not from the shade.
How to make the eucalyptus stem, piece by piece
Switching rewrites every round:US5 sc in mrUK5 dc in mrWork a US sc as a UK single crochet and the fabric comes out looser and taller.
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01The stem
Seventy-eight rounds of five to eight stitches, widening a little as…78 RNDS
starts in eucalyptusGrey· magic ring· Piece 1 of 3
First six rounds[5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5]
The slim tip
RND 1–221[5]
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Six stitches around
RND 23–4623[6]
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Seven stitches around
RND 47–6647[7]
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The thicker base
RND 67–7867[8]
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US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreasest(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneFeed the wire in before you close the last rounds, and fold a centimetre of it back on itself at each end. Nothing sharp should be able to reach the fabric.
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02The leaves
A small closed oval — out to twelve stitches, four straight rounds…11 RNDS
starts in sage· magic ring· Piece 2 of 3· make 10
First six rounds[4] [8] [12] [12] [12] [12]
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US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreasest(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is donePress each one flat between finger and thumb. They take no stuffing, and flattening them is what turns a little tube into a leaf.
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03The tip leaves
The same shape, smaller, in the pale silver green. Four of these for…7 RNDS
starts in silverGreen· magic ring· Piece 3 of 3· make 4
First six rounds[4] [8] [8] [8] [8] [6]
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US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreasest(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneThese sit closest to the closed tip. Sewn on last, they taper the branch to a point the way the real plant does.
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Nine notes on the eucalyptus stem
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01An original Crochet Genie design.
02Worked in a spiral throughout — nothing to join and nothing to turn.
03Every piece is plain single crochet, so the fabric is smooth all over. There is no ribbing, no openwork and no gap anywhere between the stitches; the leaf shape comes from where the increases and decreases fall, not from the stitch.
04The leaves are small closed tubes, not stuffed. Press each one flat between finger and thumb before you sew it down — flat is what makes it read as a leaf.
05The stem is a slim tube that widens in four steps, from 5 stitches at the tip to 8 at the base. Slide the wire in when you reach the last few rounds and fold 1 cm of it back on itself at each end so nothing sharp can work its way out.
06Sew the leaves on in pairs, one either side of the stem, with about 4 cm between one pair and the next. Turn each pair a quarter of the way around the stem from the pair below it, and the branch reads as three-dimensional from every side.
07The four small silver-green leaves go nearest the closed tip, where new growth on a real branch is palest. The ten sage leaves fill the rest of the stem down to the base.
08This design started as one continuous piece with the leaves hanging off a foundation chain. The app counts continuous rounds, so the stem is worked as a tube and the leaves are made separately and sewn on — the finished branch looks the same and every round can be counted.
09Set an evening aside for the stem. It is 78 short rounds of the same thing, and it is the only long stretch in the pattern.
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