Lavender crochet pattern — one piece, 61 counted rounds
This free lavender crochet pattern makes a sprig about 23 cm long, of which the flower head is about 7 cm, worked on a 3.0 mm hook in three colours, about an hour and a half of work. Nothing is sewn to anything: head and stem are a single spiral, the yarn changes once at round 20, and forty-two of the sixty-one rounds are the same six stitches worked over a pipe cleaner. The whole run of 61 rounds is written out below as one piece, each round carrying the stitch count it ends on.
Maths verified, not yet made. Every one of the 61 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 Easy
Easy: one stitch throughout, but forty-two identical six-stitch rounds are hard to keep your place in, and the pipe cleaner goes in around round 45.
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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
1 small ball, about 10 m usedDK cotton
1 small ball, about 12 m usedDK cotton
scraps, about 3 mDK cotton, or two strands of embroidery thread
Tools
3 you probably own, 2 to buyYou likely have
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Stitch markers
You need to buy
Pipe cleaner (chenille stem), 30 cm x1
Polyester stuffing (a pinch, about 2 g)
Optional
Small wire cutters for trimming the pipe cleaner
A stitch marker in a contrast colour for the round start
Gauge and finished size
the last check before you cast onTension
Tight enough that the pipe cleaner cannot show between the stitches. Gauge is not critical — a looser hand gives a slightly longer, softer sprig.
Finished size
~23 cm long, of which the flower head is about 7 cm
How to make the lavender sprig
Switching rewrites every round:US6 sc in mrUK6 dc in mrWork a US sc as a UK single crochet and the fabric comes out looser and taller.
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01The sprig
One tube, top to bottom. Three rounds open the flower head out to…61 RNDS
starts in lavender· magic ring· Piece 1 of 1
First six rounds[6] [9] [12] [12] [12] [12]
Opening the head out
RND 1–31[6]
2[9]
3[12]
Straight through the head
RND 4–174[12]
5[12]
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Closing to the stem
RND 18–1918[9]
19[6]
The stem, in sage
RND 20–6120[6]
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US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreasest(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneFasten off and run the tail back up inside the stem. Then take the deep violet and work the florets over the head: short straight stitches, four or five gathered into a cluster, clusters staggered up the lavender until it reads as a head of flowers rather than a purple bud.
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Seven notes on the lavender sprig
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01An original Crochet Genie design.
02One piece, worked as a continuous spiral in single crochet from the tip of the flower head down to the base of the stem. The fabric is smooth the whole way — no ribbing, no clusters, no openwork anywhere in it.
03The florets are surface embroidery, not crocheted buds. With the sprig finished and off the hook, work short straight stitches in deep violet over the lavender head, four or five to a cluster, angled up and out, leaving lavender showing between them.
04Nothing is sewn to anything. The yarn changes once, at round 20, where the head becomes the stem.
05The head is rounds 1 to 19 and the stem is rounds 20 to 61. Stuff the head lightly as you close it at round 19 — a real lavender head is slim, and firm stuffing rounds it out too much.
06Slide the pipe cleaner up inside the stem at about round 45 and keep working over it. Fold 1 cm over at each end first so no wire end can find its way out through the stitches.
07The 6-stitch stem is narrow to hold. A stitch marker moved up every round is worth the trouble over forty rounds of the same count.
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