Irish Rose Crochet Tutorial

The source for this image is unknown. It originally came from etsy.com (2007).   

This pretty fashion accessory is a crocheted Irish Rose (one of my favorite flower patterns). Today I'm going to crochet this flower using 4 ply scrap yarn and a G hook. I don't have a pattern so I'll search around on Google  for "Irish Crochet Roses." I found one.

Image credit: by anniedesgn


Anniedesign has been around as long as I have been blogging (four years). Her work is great for a lot of reasons. I like the bright yarn she uses and how neatly the petals are shaped. This Irish Rose is a great find. Yay.

Image credit: Google Images.

Here is another type of crochet flower. These flowers would make nice coasters because they lay flat. You could also use them in countless other ways or sew them on a thousand things. This will be a future project. Today its just Irish Rose day.

I'm using Google's new Blogger in Draft interface. It lets me pre-schedule the post for the next day. Oh, did I mention I deleted the old Crafty Cameleon Blog? I thought it was best to just start all over. So that's what I did. Like moving out of an old house and into a new one. But I have one criticism about blogger that can be super annoying. I have carefully read and checked each word in this draft. All are correctly spelled. No errors. Yet Blogger will change words. For example, I just found Blogger changed the word "sew" to "sewn". Blogger don't change my words around. okay?

Okay. I found a pattern ( by Carmen Heffernan published here ). I have to convert it from British to American Code. So here I go.  

Row 1: ch 3 
Round 2: 11 dc into 3rd ch from hook, join with sl st to top of beginning ch 3 (12 dc made) 

Round 3: Join 2nd colour into top of any dc st from last round. *(ch 2, dc 1) into dc st, (dc 1, ch 2, sl st) into next dc st*. Rep from * to * 6 times. Fasten off. 

Round 4: With 3rd colour and working behind row 2, work 1 sl st into stitch (Hook 2 loops to create a stable base to work from – see left) between petals, (ch 4, 1 sl st in stitch between next petal) 5 times. Ch 4, sl st to 1st sl st to close. (6 x 4 ch loop spaces made) 

Round 5: sl st into 1st ch space. (2 ch, 3 dc, 2 ch ) over each 4 ch loop space. Cut yarn and fasten off.

Today I'll test the pattern to see if  I end up with a nice Irish Rose. I'm optimistic :)