Crochet rose pattern — bloom, sepal and leaf in 24 rounds
About 7 cm across and 3 cm deep, with a leaf about 3 cm long: a free crochet rose pattern, worked on a 3.0 mm hook in four colours, about an hour and a quarter of work. The petals are never worked as petals: rounds 7 and 10 each add twelve stitches where a flat circle only takes six, and that surplus has nowhere to lie flat, so the blush and ivory edges frill by themselves. All 24 rounds of the three pieces are set out below, each round with the stitch count it ends on.
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Why it is rated Easy
Easy: plain single crochet, but the bloom stops lying flat at round 7 and you have to let it, and the petal folds are tacked by eye rather than counted.
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00What you need before you start
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What you need before you start
Yarn — four colours, all weight 3
scraps, about 5 mDK (weight 3) cotton
scraps, about 10 mDK (weight 3) cotton
scraps, about 12 mDK (weight 3) cotton
scraps, about 6 mDK (weight 3) cotton
Tools
4 you probably own, 1 to buyYou likely have
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Stitch markers
Pins
You need to buy
Sewing thread to match the green, for tacking the petal folds
Optional
Brooch pin back, 25 mm
Floral wire, 20 gauge, if you want a stem
Row counter
Gauge and finished size
the last check before you cast onTension
Looser than amigurumi. There is no stuffing to hide, and a relaxed hand lets the outer rounds wave instead of standing stiff. Exact gauge is not critical — a bigger hand gives a bigger rose.
Finished size
~7 cm across the bloom and ~3 cm deep, with a leaf about 3 cm long
How to make the rose, piece by piece
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.
1
01The bloom
One piece, worked from the heart outward. Watch it stop lying flat…12 RNDS
starts in deepRed· magic ring· Piece 1 of 3
First six rounds[6] [12] [18] [18] [24] [24]
The red bud at the centre
RND 1–41[6]
2[12]
3[18]
4[18]
Blush middle petals, first frill
RND 5–95[24]
6[24]
7[36]
8[36]
9[36]
Ivory outer petals
RND 10–1210[48]
11[48]
12[48]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreasebloback loop onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneLeave a long ivory tail. You will use it to tack the petal folds once the sepal is on.
2
02The sepal
A small green disc with a back-loop rim, worked in four rounds.4 RNDS
starts in leafGreen· magic ring· Piece 2 of 3
First four rounds[6] [12] [18] [18]
1[6]
2[12]
3[18]
4[18]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreasebloback loop onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is donePress it flat and pin it under the bloom before you sew, so the green sits centred.
3
03The leaf
A slim tube that comes to a point at both ends and gets pressed flat.8 RNDS
starts in leafGreen· magic ring· Piece 3 of 3
First six rounds[6] [8] [10] [10] [10] [10]
1[6]
2[8]
3[10]
4[10]
5[10]
6[10]
7[8]
8[6]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreasebloback loop onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneFlatten it between your fingers and sew the narrow end to the edge of the sepal, pointing away from the bloom.
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Ten notes on the rose
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01An original Crochet Genie design.
02Worked in a continuous spiral, so there is nothing to join and nothing to turn. Mark the first stitch of every round.
03The petals come from over-increasing. A flat disc grows by exactly six stitches a round; rounds 7 and 10 add twelve, and that surplus fabric has nowhere to lie flat, so it waves into petals on its own. Rounds 4, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 12 add nothing, which pulls the fabric upright and gives each colour a standing edge.
04Do not block the bloom flat. Cup it in your hand as you finish, and let the ivory edge keep its wave.
05Round 4 of the sepal is worked in back loops only. It is still 18 single crochet in and 18 single crochet out, so the counting screen shows an ordinary straight round — back loops only change where the hook goes. The free front loops make a small green rim that sits against the underside of the bloom.
06The leaf is a slim tube pressed flat, never stuffed. The two increases on rounds 2 and 3 go at opposite sides of the round and the two decreases on rounds 7 and 8 go back in the same places, which is what makes both ends come to a point rather than a dome.
07Assembly: press the sepal flat, centre it under the bloom, and sew around its edge through the underside of round 5. Pinch the sepal edge into five shallow points as you go and catch each pinch with a stitch of green — that reads as the five sepals of a real rose without any piece being added.
08Finishing the petals: fold the ivory edge over on itself in three or four places, spacing the folds evenly around the bloom, and tack each fold down with a short stitch of matching thread. This is what turns an even frill into petals that overlap, and it is worth doing in front of a mirror or a photo of a rose.
09The leaf is sewn to one edge of the sepal by its narrow end, so it points away from the bloom.
10For a brooch, sew a pin back to the sepal. For a stem, thread floral wire through the sepal before you sew it on and bind it with green yarn.
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