Looking for a standalone crochet tulip decoration that doesn't need a separate flower holder? Learn how to crochet this tulips decoration with a step-by-step from Lingzhi Handmade consisting of a guide for crocheting a tulip flower along with a beautiful crocheted container for holding them. Everything becomes very easy thanks to the instructions and the simplicity of the design.
It can become a nice spring gift for someone special or a fellow crocheter. This post will provide you with useful highlights for this project so that you may follow the guide easily.
Skill Level: Beginners can easily crochet this tulip decoration.
Colors Needed: #09, #10, and #12 are the pink shades while #04,#05, and #48 are shades of yellow. #45 is the yellow.
Tutorial Timing: 21 Minutes.
Crochet Tulips Decoration Tutorial
Here is a tutorial on how to crochet adorable, colorful tulip decorations that would brighten up any corner of your home. The yarn colors used in the project are perfect but you are allowed to choose different tulip colors except for green. This tutorial is a wonderful springboard for sprucing your tables or anything else. Below are the video notes for this project:
- Container Creation: The project begins with creating many of small spheres through crochet, which will serve as the base or container for the tulips. By crocheting and then gluing several of these balls together, you form the unique container that houses the tulips. All you need are three-sided cube with 27 spheres.
- Crocheting the Tulips: The tutor demonstrates thoroughly how to crochet the tulip blooms, starting with a magic ring and progressing through rounds of single crochets to gradually build the flower's shape and stuffing.
- Crafting the Leaves: With green yarn, the tutorial guides us through making the leaf, including adding a craft wire for structure so it stands upright when attached to the tulip.
- Assembly: The final step involves assembling the tulips and their leaves, attaching them to the container, and ensuring everything is positioned beautifully.
Best Takeaway:
- The use of X-shaped single crochets for the flowers adds a neat, look that makes these crochet tulips stand out. To crochet the same, you will do yarn under instead of yarn over.
Materials used
Following are the supplies needed to crochet this Tulip Decoration easily:
- All terms are US terms
- 2.5 mm crochet hook
- 5ply milk cotton yarn XueFeiEr
- 2mm x 30cm floral stem
- 0.5 mm craft wire
- Glue gun, scissors, fillings
Stitches Required
For crocheting a cute flower frog, several foundational crochet techniques and skills are required.
- Chain Stitch (ch): To crochet the chain, yarn over the hook, then pull the yarn through the loop on the hook.
- Slip Stitch (sl st): For this, insert the hook into the specified stitch, yarn over, and pull the yarn through both the stitch and the loop on the hook in one motion.
- Single Crochet (sc): To do this, insert the hook into the specified stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop (two loops on the hook), yarn over again and pull through both loops on the hook.
- Increasing (inc): Crocheting it involves, working two single crochet stitches into the same stitch or space.
- Decreasing (dec): Single crochet two together (sc2tog) - Insert the hook into the next stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, insert the hook into the following stitch, yarn over, pull up another loop (three loops on hook), yarn over and draw through all three loops on the hook.
- Magic Ring: You can watch it in the tutorial.
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