I just wanted to create another little pattern for a flower. The reason was exciting, I was off on a spa weekend with some friends. Squeal. Whenever I'm in a spa (every weekend - in my dreams) I'm always worried I'm going to end up with someone else's robe. I don't think you'd even know until you tried to open your locker and discovered you couldn't because the key in your pocket isn't yours!
Last year, for a similar trip, I made everyone the flowers I made for my brother's wedding. The pattern for those is here. I think for me one of the highlights of our spa trip this year was that several people had kept and remembered to bring, the flower I'd made for them the previous year.
This year's flower is a more pointy affair. It wasn't based on a particular type of flower, I just liked the idea of playing around with the petal shape.
Pointy Petal Flower Pattern
US terms. Hook Size can be anything but I made these using DK yarn and 3.5mm Hook
Round 1: Chain (Ch) 4 and slip stitch (sl st) together
Round 2: Ch 2 and 12 double crochet (dc) into the circle, sl st together.
Round 3: Ch 1, 2 single crochet (sc) inn each stitch, and sl st together
Round 4: Ch 4, skip 3 stitches and sl st into next stitch, repeat to end
Round 5: sc, half double crochet (hdc), 2dc, 1 treble crochet (trc), 2dc, hdc, sc and sl st into each loop and finish off after the final petal.
Alternative Round 5 (for when you have very little yarn leftover!): sc, 2hdc, 1trc, 2hdc, sc and sl st into each loop and finish off after final petal.
To create the flowers for the spa I used tiny little scraps of yarn from my stash so I used the alternative round 5.
I am lucky that people know how much I love yarn and so I get some as presents. This means that I have enough colours so that everyone can have a different coloured flower. I simply added a safety pin to the back of the flower and then you have your very own robe marker!
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