Flowered Cactus crochet pattern
Today I will share with you how to crochet a blooming cactus. I will make a tree to keep at my work place. This flowered Cactus crochet pattern I collected from @a. Now let’s get started.
Materials
1. Hook size 2mm
2. Fiberfill
3. Scissors
4. 12 mm safety eyes
5. Needle for sewing pieces
6. White thread for embroidery
7. Yarn (beige, brown, green, pink, yellow colors)
Abbreviations
MR: magic ring
rnd: round
ch: chain stitch
slst: slip stitch
sc: single crochet stitch
hdc: half double crochet stitch
dec: decrease
inc: increase
FLO: crochet through front loops only
BLO: crochet through back loops only
Stuff during the process Start with beige color yarn
1 rnd: 8 sc in MR
2 rnd: 8 inc (16)
3 rnd: (1 sc, inc) x8 (24)
4 rnd: (2 sc, inc) x8(32)
5 rnd: (3 sc, inc) x8 (40)
6 rnd: (4 sc, inc) x8 (48)
7 rnd: (5 sc, inc) x8 (56)
8 rnd: (6 sc, inc) x8 (64)
9 rnd: BLO: 64 sc (64)
10-15 rnd: 64 sc
16 rnd: (7 sc, inc) x8 (72)
17-19 rnd: 72 sc
20 rnd: FLO: (8 sc, inc) x8 (80)
21 rnd: BLO: 80 sc (80)
22-23 rnd: 80 sc
24 rnd: FLO: 80 sc (80)
Slst, cut the beige color yarn and hide.
Attach a brown color yarn to the first back loop of 24 round and continue crocheting
24 rnd: BLO: 80 sc (80)
25 rnd: (8 sc, dec) x8 (72)
26 rnd: (7 sc, dec) x8 (64)
27 rnd: (6 sc, dec) x8 (56)
Change the brown color yarn to the green color yarn and continue crocheting.
28 rnd: FLO: (6 sc, inc) x8 (64)
29 rnd: (7 sc, inc) x8 (72)
30 rnd: (8 sc, inc) x8 (80)
31 rnd: (9 sc, inc) x8 (88)
32-39 rnd: 88 sc
40 rnd: (9 sc, dec) x8 (80)
41-43 rnd: 80 sc (3 rounds) Insert the safety eyes between 37 rnd and 36 rnd.
The space between the eyes is 10 stitches
44 rnd: (8 sc, dec) x8 (72)
45 rnd: 72 sc (72)
46 rnd: (7 sc, dec) x8 (64)
47-48 rnd: 64 sc
49 rnd: (6 sc, dec) x8 (56)
50 rnd: 56 sc (56)
51 rnd: (5sc, dec) x8 (48)
52 rnd: (4sc, dec) x8(40)
53 rnd: (3sc, dec) x8 (32)
54 rnd: (2sc, dec) x8 (24)
55 rnd: (1 sc, dec) x8 (16)
56 rnd: 8 dec (8)
Cut the green color yarn and hide.
Sew crosses on the cactus with white thread as shown in the photo.
Yellow petal (make 3)
Ch10, from the 2nd ch from the hook: 8 hdc, 4 hdc into 1 ch, 8 hdc, slst
Sew 3 yellow petals together
Pink petal (make 10)
1 rnd: ch10, from the 2nd ch from the hook: 8 hdc, 4 hdc into 1 ch, 8 hdc, slst
2 rnd: 8 sc, 4 inc, 8 sc, slst
At first sew 4 pink petals together- this is our small flower.
Then sew 6 pink petals together- this is our big flower.
Sew yellow petals to the small flower then sew it to the big flower. Our flower is ready!
Sew the flower to the cactus.
Congratulations! Your cactus is ready!
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I’m not sure why but my green part came out WAY bigger than shown in the photo. I used the same size hook and yarn and definitely did all the steps correctly 🤔
You can adjust the leaf to fit your liking. I’m Anna, I’ll be watching our progress