Yes – This amazing flower! I love them! I’ve bought many a plant over the years for my garden, but only one seems to grow, and its putting in a great display right now! So this post is the perfect excuse to design a crochet Echinacea flower
It must have about 80 flower heads on it, giving my garden a huge burst of colour, which given the rotten wet cold summer we’ve had, is very welcome.
It was a perfect excuse to make some out of yarn of course!
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So what do you think? Did I manage it? I didn’t have the exact pink wanted, I don’t think any wool will be able to come close to nature in the vibrancy of the pink, but I think they turned out pretty nicely!
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Crochet Echinacea Flower
4mm crochet hook
mustard and another colour double knitting yarn- I used Stylecraft Special DK.
A needle for sewing in ends.
Stitch marker
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Echinacea Flower Pattern
With mustard – start with a magic ring. (with the yarn to the left wrap it around your finger 3 times, so the tail finishes to your right. Insert the hook under the 2 of the loops, and pull the third loop back through and chain 1 immediately – then you can remove the loops off you finger
Round 1: 6sc in the MR [6] and pull tight.
R2: (2sc in next sc, 1sc) 3 times. [9sc]
R3-5: 1sc in each sc [9] (3 more rows)
Fasten off leaving a long end that can be used to stuff the seed head.
Petals
Using the white yarn 4.0mm hook, start with a magic ring.
Round 1: 6sc in the MR [6]
R2: (2sc in next sc, 1sc) 3 times. [9sc] SS to join
For each petal:
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CH7, starting in the 2nd chain from the hook do 3 sc, 3 HDC, ss (Top loop only) to the next stitch along. Repeat a further 8 times.
You will have 9 petals. Fasten off leaving a long end for sewing together.
Turn the flower upside down ? this is the side that it is seen.
Now sew the seed head to the petals, using the long end of the white.
There you have it?? Echinacea!
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