Learn how to crochet a Bing Bong Flower keychain from "Inside Out" inspired by the brooch of the character "Bing Bong", with each petal representing one of Riley's emotions. It is quite simple and quick to make and requires some extra sewing. You can recreate it with the help of a detailed tutorial presented by Tejidos Joss.
This flower can be used as a keychain or a brooch, offering a personal touch to clothing or accessories. It is also perfect for using up your different colors of yarn as each petal uses a very small amount of yarn.
The complete video guide for crocheting this Bing Bong Flower Keychain will be available at the end of this post. Read more about this guide below.
Skills Used: Making a magic ring, single crochet stitches, increasing and decreasing stitches, and making slip stitches. The project also requires basic sewing techniques for assembling the petals and attaching them to the flower's center. These skills are essential for beginners looking to practice and improve their crochet abilities.
Guide Span: 16 Minutes Only
Personalization Tips: The idea is to choose a different color for each petal but if you are just looking for a flower keychain, try using yellow for the petal and brown for the center. You can also sew it into a flower pot.
Crochet Bing Bong Flower
The tutorial by Joselyn provides a clear and concise guide on how to crochet the Bing Bong Flower keychain. It is beginner-friendly, emphasizing the importance of starting with a magic ring for a neat beginning and using a stitch marker to track the rounds. Joselyn explains each step in detail, making it easy to follow along and create a beautiful and functional crochet flower.
- Middle Part of the Flower: Start with a Magic Ring: Use dark green yarn for the center. Round 1: Create a magic ring and crochet six single crochets. Round 2: Crochet six increases (two single crochets in each stitch) for a total of 12 stitches. Round 3: Alternate one single crochet and one increase across the round, ending with 18 stitches. Round 4: Crochet one single crochet in each stitch (18 total).
To finish, leave a long thread for closing and make an invisible closure for neatness. Create a second part identically, but with a shorter finish thread. - Petals: Start with a Magic Ring: Each petal begins this way. Round 1: Crochet six single crochets in the ring. Round 2: Complete six increases to have 12 stitches.Rounds 3 to 5: Crochet a single crochet in each stitch (12 in total per round). Round 6: Follow a pattern of one single crochet and one decrease to have eight stitches at the end. Round 7: Crochet a single crochet in each stitch (eight total).
- Complete the Petal: Finish with a slip stitch and leave a long thread for sewing onto the flower center. Make six petals in different colors: red, yellow, light blue, lilac, orange, and green.
- Sewing Petals: Attach each petal to the center part of the flower using the threads. Ensure each petal is sewn into three stitches on the flower to maintain symmetry.
- Order of Petals: Attach petals in a specific order—yellow, red, orange, lilac, green, and light blue.
Stitche Used
These supplies will help you follow along with the tutorial and create the keychain as demonstrated.
- Yarn: 2 mm thick in various colors (green, red, yellow, light blue, lilac, orange).
- Crochet Hook: 2.5 mm size.
- Needle
- Yarn Scissors
- Stitch Marker
- Fiber Filling (for stuffing the middle part of the flower)
- Keychain Ring or Brooch Pin (optional, for attaching the flower to a keychain or clothing)
Stitches Used and Abbreviations
Following are the crochet bing bong flower amigurumi pattern abbreviations and stitches:
- MR (Magic Ring): Create a loop, work the first round of stitches into the loop, then pull the yarn tail to close.
- SC (Single Crochet): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through both loops on hook.
- INC (Increase): Work two single crochets into the same stitch.
- DEC (Decrease): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, insert hook into next stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through all loops on hook.
- SL ST (Slip Stitch): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through both the stitch and loop on the hook.
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