Fleurette Brooch

Make a pretty brooch made up of three crocheted flowers.

Use any combo of yarns and hooks to make your small, medium and larger flower. You'll also need a brooch pin.

I used:

• thread weight Altin Basak
  
• sports weight - Vanna's Glamour, which gives some lovely sparkle to the flower
• Fingering - Paton's 100% cotton 4 ply

Basically, you need three different yarns of three different weights - one a lighter weight, the next a heavier weight, the third a heavier weight still.

Each flower starts with a magic ring. If this is new to you, see my info about it here.

1: Crochet your smallest flower

Make your smallest flower with your lightest weight yarn.

Follow the pattern for Anne's Fleurette.

Weave in the working end, but leave a few inches of the tail at the back for sewing things up later:

2: Make your middle flower

Make your middle flower with your next heaviest yarn and weave in the ends.

Follow the same pattern as in Step 1 above:

3: How to crochet the third flower

For the third flower, I crocheted the same pattern but with 9 petals.

This is worked in your heaviest weight yarn.

Here's how to do it:

Make your magic ring.

Round 1: Chain 1. You will make a slip stitch into this at the end. Use a stitch marker if you need to keep an eye on it.

Work 8 sc (UK dc) into ring

Slip stitch into the chain you made at the beginning, making your 9th stitch

Round 2: Chain 4, slip stitch into first stitch

(Chain 4, slip stitch into next stitch) all the way round to make 9 petals. Weave in ends.

4: Join your flowers!

Thread your needle with the tail end at the back of the smallest flower and sew through the middle of the each of the flowers.

Then sew a couple more times up and down the center of the flowers to join them firmly together.

5: Turn your flower into a brooch :)

Attach your brooch pin:

And there we are! Have fun making and wearing your brooch! Or crochet up a few for gifts :)

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