The Crochet Hook Up - Designing as a community
A few days ago, i approached Emily from The Loopy Stitch* and asked her if she would like to use some of my already designed flowers for her 365 days of flowers. She almost jumped through my phone with excitement!
Why did i offer some of my designs to Emily?
It is because Emily has worked so hard over the past few months delivering a new flower design to the crochet community daily. Each day she has been designing, writing, editing and publishing these little flowers for 3mths! If you have designed or tested a crochet pattern, you will know just those 4 steps are very time consuming in itself, let alone doing it every single day.
But last week Emily wrote a very raw honest post on Instagram .Emily was feeling the 'pressure' of delivering a flower each day and it was taking away her normal crochet time that she loves so much. The community sent an outpouring of love and understanding, and so we should, Emily has worked so hard!
All Week i kept thinking about what Emily wrote, and i realised i have been running on Auto pilot by pushing myself instead of pacing myself.
Once i approached Emily, the idea was born to include crocheters from all over the world to collaborate in designing the flowers, sharing the load and paying it forward.
So without further ado, i would like to present you the first flower of The Crochet Hook Up
Stitches – US Terms
MR Magic Ring
Ch Chain
Dc Double Crochet
Tr2tog Treble 2 together – make 2 incomplete Tr, yo,
pull through all loops
Sc Single Crochet
P3 Picot – Ch 3, Sl St to 1st
Ch
Sl St Slip
Stitch
Round 1
Make a MR,
Ch 2 (counts as Dc), 15 Dc into ring, Sl st to 2nd starting Ch, cut
yarn (16 x Dc)
Round 2
In any Dc,
attach new colour, Ch 3, Tr in same St (counts as Tr2tog), Ch 1, *Tr2tog in
next St, Ch 1* repeat * to * 14 more times, Sl st to first Tr2tog, cut yarn (16 x Tr2tog, 16 x Ch 1)
Round 3
In any Ch
1 Sp, attach new colour, *(2 Sc, P3, Sc) in same Sp*, repeat * to * in each Ch
Sp, Sl St to first Sc (16 x P3, 48 x Sc)
*Emily's 365 days of flowers can be found:
The Crochet Hook Up can be found:
Facebook Page
Facebook Group - For anyone wishing to design a flower for this project
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