Now anyone who knows me knows I have a bit of a thing for buttons. I do work at the biggest button shop in the UK and have a collection myself that is nearly as large as my yarn collection. I didn't want these pretty freebies to be forgotten about and lost forever to my many boxes of buttons but I couldn't think what to do with them.
I'd been working on flower motif for another projects and ended but with lots of pattern ideas that were rejected. I though it might be nice to rekindle and improve one of these abandoned flower projects and use the Mollie makes buttons in the centre.
Well this is what I came up with :)
After the photos is the a free pattern for the flowers so you can make your own too.
Mollie makes vintage button flower motif.
This pattern is written with UK abbreviations as Molly makes
is a UK magazine. When I get chance I’ll write it up with the American abbreviations
as well
You will need
Dk weight
yarn in your choice of colour
4mm crochet
hook
Vintage look
button
Wool needle
Abbreviations
ch: chain
sl st: slip
stitch
dc: double
crochet
tr: Treble
crochet
dtr: double
treble crochet
sts:
stitches
This pattern
is worked in a spiral. Use a stitch marker to mark the beginning of the rnd.
Start with 5
dc in to magic ring
Rnd 1 - 2dc
into each st to the end.
Rnd 2 – (ch3,
skip the next dc, dc in the next st) repeat to end.
Rnd 3 – (dc,
8tc, dc) in each ch space the end
Rnd 4 –
working behind the petals created on the last row- dc in the next unworked dc
from rnd 2, (ch5, dc in the next unworked dc from rnd 2) repeat to end, sl st
to join
Rnd 5 – (dc,
4tr, 2dtr, ch2, 2drt, 4tr, dc) in each 5ch space to the end.
Fasten off
leaving a long tail of yarn.
Use this
tail of yarn and a wool needle to sew your vintage button into the centre of
the flower.
You can add
a brooch back to make this into a corsage but I’m going to make a little granny
square bag and use one of these as the clasp. I share the pattern when it’s
made J
Happy
crocheting!
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